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Article: HANDHELDS TO BE HARVARD MEDICAL STUDENTS' FIRST ASSIST

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May 7, 2001
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The doctors-in-training at Harvard Medical School will still depend on stethoscopes to listen to beating hearts. But they'll use Palm Pilots to tap out diagnoses, jot down notes, keep up with course work and rate a professor's performance.

Palms are the most popular brand of hand-held personal digital assistants (PDAs) used for scheduling, e-mail, scribbling and storing addresses and phone numbers.

Now, Palms and other PDAs will be employed by Harvard Medical School in what is one of the first programs of its kind in an educational setting. Starting in August, 338 of the school's 734 students will have their class schedules, hospital case log notes,

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