News

2013

Date	Description
MAR. 06	Ever since its induction in 2010, the iMedEd Initiative has drawn attention to UC Irvine School of Medicine. "Learning becomes a 24/7 opportunity," says Dean Ralph V. Clayman, MD.
FEB. 19	UC Irvine iPad medical education program shows results: test scores have improved and applications have surged.
FEB. 11	The iMedEd Initiative – UC Irvine’s innovative medical education program based on iPad tablet computing – has been chosen as a 2012-13 Apple Distinguished Program.
JAN. 8	It is Time to Teach Technology: Thoughts on Digital Literacy in the Medical Curriculum

2012

Date	Description
DEC. 20	Think Different: The Next Generation of Doctors and Digital Social Learning
NOV. 29	UC Irvine medical and tech students face off to create the best app; the winner helps users find relief centers in a natural disaster.
NOV. 20	UC Irvine School of Medicine and Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences students team up to create Apple-based applications with healthcare utility.
OCT. 28	Innovative collaboration with UNE received a runners-up award in a competition held this week in Australia.
SEP. 04	Register by Sept. 10 for the Sept 12 webinar, "Rebooting UC Irvine's Medical Curriculum with the iPad," with Dr. Warren Wiechmann, instructional technologies faculty director.
JUN. 11	UNE-UC Irvine link breaks the tyranny of distance
JUN. 4	Warren Wiechmann, MD, MBA speaks at the AAMC's Information Technology in Academic Medicine Conference on "Rebooting UC Irvine's Medical Curriculum with the iPad"

2011

Date	Description
OCT. 18	Medical students share how they use the iPad as a learning tool - and how it has changed the way they study medicine - during a webinar.
SEPT. 26	"iPads in Medical School, the Student Perspective" webcast on Tuesday, October 18th at 10 a.m. PDT presented by the medical students at UC Irvine
AUG. 29	Can digital textbooks truly replace the print kind?
AUG. 05	New medical students get iPADs in second year of UC Irvine's iMedEd Initiative, now funded by a $1.2- million grant from a Fountain Valley businessman.
AUG. 02	White Coat Ceremony marks start of iMedEd initiative's second year at UC Irvine School of Medicine; revolutionary digital curriculum expands.
JUL. 19	View the telemedicine demonstration sessions that helped create a collaborative agreement between UC Irvine School of Medicine and the University of New England in Australia.
MAY. 25	Hear first-hand from other universities on what they're doing with mobility. Apple one-day Mobility Symposium.
MAY. 07	"World class programs come through collaboration, and unless we have a big, fat, high-speed pipe, it's not going to happen"
APR. 20	A $1.2-million gift to underwrite UC Irvine's iMedEd initiative, including the cost of iPads for first-year medical students arriving in August 2011, 2012 and 2013.
APR. 12	UC Irvine School of Medicine is joining forces with the University of England to produce future generations of technologically-savvy doctors.
APR. 05	Electronic readers: Hard on your eyes? Medical students are prodigious readers, by necessity.
MAR. 31	Dr. Warren Wiechmann discusses how the iPad is helping transform the curriculum at the UC Irvine School of Medicine to make medical education more innovative and interactive.
MAR. 30	Australian university to partner with UC Irvine's School of Medicine and its innovative iMedEd Initiative

2010

Date	Description
AUG. 26	UC Irvine School of Medicine's revolutionary iPad program to use e-textbooks from Elsevier
AUG. 26	Apple lets medical schools buy mobile applications in bulk
AUG. 14	UC Irvine med school adopts iPad-based curriculum
AUG. 13	This year's UC Irvine medical students get the first iPad-based curriculum
AUG. 13	The age of electronic medicine
AUG. 11	SonoSite and UC Irvine sign landmark agreement to transform medical school training and education
AUG. 10	Inside UC Irvine’s iPad initiative
AUG. 10	Can college students learn as well on iPads, e-books?
AUG. 09	Move over Skynet, iPad is taking over
AUG. 09	Move over Skynet, iPad is taking over
AUG. 09	Free iPads For UC Irvine medical students
AUG. 08	UC Irvine White Coat Ceremony, 2010
AUG. 07	UC Irvine medical school goes digital
AUG. 06	Incoming UC Irvine medical students to receive Apple iPads/San Diego Union Tribune
AUG. 06	KNBC-LA reports on UC Irvine's plan to go digital
AUG. 05	UC Irvine School of Medicine's incoming students to receive iPad tablet computer as part of iMedEd Initiative
AUG. 05	Physician’s new black bag: the iPad
AUG. 05	iPads for new medical students at UC Irvine
AUG. 04	UC Irvine medical school shifts to digital curriculum
AUG. 03	Free iPads for new UC Irvine medical students