One of the great features of DocGuide is that subscribers can star an interesting article they have just read which translates into a voting system enabling us to see which articles have shaken the boat recently.

DocGuide is a physician only community in that they check the license of each and every subscriber. This is good in ensuring a pure doctors rating of the articles.

Another great feature of DocGuide App is that it’s highly individualized and tailored to our needs. For example when you choose pediatrics you get to see only those articles that are of interest in pediatrics and even you can segment that into what type of articles you want to see such as pure research, clinical, news and press and others.

Not only that, but you get to choose what journals, diseases, and drugs [see screenshots above] you want to keep an eye on!

The app is free [download in iTunes] and subscription to DocGuide is also free.

The only missing feature from this great journal app is the ability to earn CME credit. Nowadays, it’s hard to convince a physician to read an article on the go without simultaneously earning CME on the fly.

Here’s how it looked on the Windows Mobile screen;

And here’s how it looks on the iPod Touch;

Comparing the above two screens it’s obvious how the iPhone platform supersedes, with wonderful colors and a large screen which translates to more content per look and with all the “wow factor” that iPhone’s Touch technology adds to the experience.

Just type www.unboundmedicine.com/medline on your device and you will be taken to this free service.

This mobile website is a smart website in that it can recognize whether you are visiting it through your iPhone, iPod Touch Safari or through some other mobile devices so that it changes its skin to fit the platform.

It can also be visited by the desktop also. But why should we visit a third party website when the actual PubMed website is there and fully functional. However, it is definitely helpful when we want to look up the Medline through our mobile device.

This is not new to Unbound Medicine as they were the pioneers in introducing a Medline search function into their popular Mobile Merck Medicus software.

The new features here included the following:

• A special disease section and special drug look up category and even a medical news filter.
• Advanced search functionality with optional emphasis and level of evidence.
• The abstract is linked to the original journal website and the link can be shared with a friend via send email function.

This is, without doubt, the place where we want to be when it comes to looking up the medline on our devices.

Check the Best Medline search application to see this app’s ranking.

You can also get the Unbound Medline as search option when you download our LinkedPeds Toolbar.

The image below is the side tool bar that is seen when we open the full text page of any article. We can see the third option is the full PDA download.

Not only that but also we can download the whole issue as seen in the capture below

The file format is .pdb whats called open source DOC format and these files can be easily read using the Mobipocket Reader or Isilo Reader (both available for the Palm and Pocket PC devices) or the Palm Reader.

Although we are happy for the articles to be readable on the PDA but we still need more features such as abstracts for non subscribers and more of the online content to be seen on the PDA such as the audio podcasts and the weekly images.

Read the Pda4peds review here

The journal is also available online as a mobile site http://handheld.nejm.org/ for a pda4peds review click here

Read this Pda4peds Review for further details.

Since it was acquired by Elsevier in 1991 one should expect that it’s mobile content would be available through the Elsevier’s PDA manager “Pocket Consult” but then the journal was found to offer their PDA content through Round Point.

Round point provides a special subscription manager that we should install on the PDA in order to retrieve updated contents when we synchronize.

But there is much easier way to go, just serve the journal on the PDA browser when connected let it be WiFi, GPRS, WAP or whatever. The journal can be easily flipped through and pages upload fairly quickly. No need for Round Point subscription manager which is by the way it only provides “The Lancet” as medical journal, others are mostly UK business and financial news.

Now the great news is ” there is a six months free trial currently offered” click here to subscribe for full text Lancet right on your handheld and absolutley free!