First Consult app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 8112 ratings )

Health & Fitness Medical
Developer: Elsevier Inc.

Free

Current version: 1.1.6, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 06 Nov 2010
App size: 8.14 Mb

Do you need evidence-based answers to clinical questions at the point of care? Have you been unable to get answers because you did not have online computer access or a Wi-Fi or 3G/4G data connection? The First Consult iPhone/iPad app is your solution. The app allows First Consult’s trusted answers to be stored on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. A data connection is required for the initial content download and content updates, but is not required to use the app itself – making First Consult’s answers available anytime, anywhere.
First Consult is featured point-of-care content found within ClinicalKey. In addition to providing access to First Consult’s point-of-care content, ClinicalKey provides online access to leading books, journals, and review articles. For more information on ClinicalKey visit the Elsevier, Inc. web site linked below.

How to access the First Consult App:

Do you currently access ClinicalKey via your institution or an individual subscription?
•Use your personal ClinicalKey account to access First Consult content via the app.
Upon downloading the app, select the option ‘I use First Consult and know my user name’ and enter your ClinicalKey user name and password to start using the First Consult app.
•If you access ClinicalKey via your institution but do not have a personal ClinicalKey account, create a personal account in order to begin using the app.
Upon downloading the app, select the option ‘I use First Consult but do not have a user name’ and following the on-screen instructions to set up a personal account.

Are you new to ClinicalKey?
•Try the First Consult app risk-free for 60 days.
Upon downloading the app, select the option ‘I do not currently use First Consult’ and register for a free trial. At the end of the 60 day trial, you can convert to a paid subscription to ClinicalKey to continue accessing First Consult content and gain access to the books, journals, and review articles provided by ClinicalKey on your Apple device and computer.
To subscribe now visit clinicalkey.com by clicking the Elsevier link below.

www. clinicalkey.com

Pros and cons of First Consult app for iPhone and iPad

First Consult app good for

Extremely useful! Worth the investment if you are in a position that requires you do a quick review of a certain pathologies. Only improvement suggestion: cover more rare conditions. They require read up more than the common cases.

Great little resource for on the wards, especially when you have no internet access

Great app! Gives you a lot of informations with great details. Its very easy to use and well organized! Love it!

A buffet of medically relevant information that is clinically applicable.

Definitely the single greatest medical app available and pretty much the only one you will ever need. It has everything.

As on off service resident, i find this gives relevant information quickly. Between this epocarates and medscape youre pretty much set.

Some bad moments

I love this ap! It is the most useful, all-encompassing ap I have ever used. I use it constantly throughout my practice. It is easy to navigate and contains just the right amount of important information. Information is consistent with current guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. Great ap!

More valuable to me than the computer edition because I always have the iPhone in my pocket. Great app to have at my fingertips.

Says its downloading topics. Hangs at 0% for a while, then shows a blank topic list. Search brings up no results regardless of what is queried. Updating from the app hangs without progress bar movement. Basically, impossible to get any information from this app. It literally does nothing.

This app is prepared by highly qualified authors . A great app for a quick reference! You wont get disappointed. You need to get used to it to take full advantage! Mesfin Negia

Well organized. Practical searches. Specific recommendations. Would love graphics once can be included as visual alternatives

I am in FNP school and this app is great. It would be greater if you could also type in symptoms to get a diagnosis because you have to know the diagnosis to look it up. Once u have it, it will give a list of DD. Definitely a must have for the novice. I use it a lot when I study, not so much at clinicals.

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