The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 3 (June 2014) | Page 19

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App Offers Interesting New Way for
Doctors to Learn
Clinicians are being given the opportunity to fit specialist learning into their
busy lifestyles thanks to a tailor-made
medical learning tool devised by Papworth Hospital experts.
The Papworth Hospital MCQ Learning
App gives health specialists the opportunity to learn on the go.
Developed by Dr Alain Vuylsteke, Consultant Intensivist at Papworth Hospital,
the App offers dynamic multiple-choice
tests to users to provide a quick and
effective way of learning about highly
specialist medical techniques.
It is built so that two tests are never
identical, includes comprehensive expla-

nations and will retrieve supplementary
information from the internet.

its full potential by including many more
learning modules in the near future.”

On completing the test users are presented with a virtual personal certificate with their final score which can be
archived, downloaded or emailed for
their records.

The MCQ Learning App currently offers
a range of multiple choice questions on
transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE).

It has already received worldwide interest
from clinicians and other professionals.
Dr Vuylsteke, who worked with other
Papworth Hospital Consultants to create
this App, said: “It is great to have built a
tool that facilitates the sharing of knowledge accumulated in an institution such
as Papworth. We will hopefully gather
enough support to realise this concept to

This procedure provides clear ultrasound images of the heart and is used as
an alternative to standard echocardiography.
It is hoped that the App will be expanded
to include a variety of specialist heart
and lung subjects, including electrocardiography and radiography.
For more information on this application visit: www.papworthhospital.nhs.uk n

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