A trend has been taking place at several medical schools around the country in the past couple of years: Students are being required to own iPads. Some are even giving iPads to students. University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine has joined that trend by providing them to first- and second-year students, like an electronic welcome pack.
At Penn, according to the student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian, a program was developed to tailor material for faculty lectures:
Using a program called iBooks Author, professors can create multi-touch textbooks that can include pictures, videos, interactive diagrams and hyperlinks. Students can type notes on the margins and highlight content.
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