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Medical & Health Education Apps

This guide provides information about useful and popular apps related to medical and health education.

VisualDX App

blue and black visualdx logoVisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system with more than 47,000 images illustrating diseases on all skin types and colors, designed to be used at the point of care. VisualDX is also available in the CHSL list of databases.

 

 

Each diagnosis includes: 

  • Synopsis
  • ICD-10 Codes
  • What to look forDiagnostic Pearls
  • Differential Diagnosis and Pitfalls
  • Best Tests
  • Management Pearls
  • Therapy
  • References
  • Information for Patients (patient handouts)

App Features

  • Play quizzes and challenge friends to test your knowledge
  • Earn CME
  • Save content

How to Download the Free App and Access via Your Institutional Subscription

  1. From an IP-authenticated clinical computer go to the VisualDx site. Click Open Athens Login to log in with your CWRU credentials. You can also access VisualDX from the list of databases on CHSL's website.

  2. Click Create a Personal Account and fill out the information to create a personal login account.

screenshot of visualdx where to click create a personal account

  1. You should then be prompted to download the app. If not, you can find VisualDx in your device's app store. Download and enter the username and password you created in Step #2. Now you can open and begin using the app. 

 

Interactive Quizzes

Users can test their knowledge and challenge friends using VisualDx's quiz feature. When logged in to the app, select the Education icon at the bottom of your screen. Then select to Play New Quiz or Challenge Friends.

quiz feature of visualdx

Clinical Education Center

Available in the database version, VisualDx has created readily available resources to assist both in the classroom and online education. In the VisualDx Clinical Education Center, you can access the following materials:

  • Case-Based Lessons
  • Interactive Quizzes
  • Webinars
  • Skin of Color Teaching Sets
  • And more

To access this content, open and login to VisualDx. Click on the menu and under Additional Resources, click Clinical Education Center.

screenshot of visualdx menu

Select content from the menu of resources.

view in visualdx of menu of resources