Doctors.net.uk launches iPhone and iPad medical quiz apps

Dec. 3, 2012 - PRLog -- The Medical Quiz Lite, which can be downloaded free of charge via iTunes, and the Premium App, which costs £1.49, including a free multiple choice quiz, provide informal, light-hearted yet valuable learning tools.

The Medical Quiz Lite app contains questions on general medical knowledge; while the Premium App quizzes cover specialist areas such as therapeutics, cardiology, general internal medicine and general practice.

Premium App users, who can download additional quizzes for £1.49 each, can tweet their scores and add them to their Facebook page. Doctors.net.uk members can also post their scores on a leaderboard on the Doctors.net.uk website.

The medical quiz apps, which can also be downloaded by other healthcare professionals and the public around the world, follow the launch by Doctors.net.uk of a medical news app, and a conference highlights app (exclusively for UK doctors).

Dr Tim Ringrose, CEO of Doctors.net.uk, said: ‘Education is becoming increasingly important to doctors with the introduction of revalidation, and with heavy workloads, busy lifestyles and growing economic pressures, doctors need to find convenient and effective ways to fit Continuing Medical Education (CME) around their schedule.

‘Our new apps answer doctors’ need for bite-sized learning resources that are so quick and accessible they can be completed on an iPhone or iPad within minutes. We have presented these quizzes in a light-hearted way to make learning fun as well as informative.’    

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Andrew Baud

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Note to editors:

Doctors.net.uk is the largest and most active network of medical professionals in the UK.  

Doctors.net.uk has a membership of over 197,000 doctors, with 97% saying that the network is their most trusted source of information.  It is the online resource most frequently used by doctors and provides a variety of services to support them in making the best decisions for their patients. These services include forums for discussion, extensive online education resources and a range of editorial content, including conference highlights.

Doctors.net.uk also has an independent market research division – medeConnect - which conducts online community-based research among medical professionals world-wide for the pharmaceutical industry and other healthcare organisations. This research is used to inform educational campaigns that are run for Doctors.net.uk members. Doctors.net.uk’s education programmes are sponsored by a range of companies and organisations including pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, charities, hospital providers and public sector groups.

Doctors.net.uk was created for doctors, by doctors in 1998.  More than 300 doctors now act as advisers and clinical information contributors.  Credibility and integrity of all published materials is assured thanks to an experienced editorial team and a code of absolute transparency for all information published.