Yale School of Medicine will provide all its students with an iPad2 for use in the classroom and clinical settings. Students will be able to download the entire medical curriculum and to use it to either read and handle confidential patient information.
The school is distributing about 520 iPads 2. If you think of it as an expensive initiative, consider that the school spends about $100,000 every year to copy, collate, and distribute course materials; costs that the iPads 2 are going to dramatically slash. The school plans to cover the costs of the plan in about five years.
The use of iPad 2 was tested with a pilot group of nine first-year students last spring. Although the group included not technology-savvy students, the response to the test was generally positive.
Yale isn't the first school to introduce iPads for classroom use: the Stanford University School of Medicine gave the tablet to first-year and master's students last fall.
[via Yale Daily News]
