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Ever wanted to save an important piece of information for later use while seeing a patient? Did you know that the average primary care physician has as many as seven clinical questions during each half day of patient care? Many of us kept information in spiral bound notebooks as learners, but in this computer age isn't there a better way?

It was with this in mind that Jeffrey Weinfeld, MD, created Pocket Pearls, a Georgetown University School of Medicine project which aims to:

• Offer a Palm-OS program to allow students to save clinical pearls, back up those pearls, and share pearls with others
• Provide a Web version of Pocket Pearls for faculty and students
• Study how students learn with this new tool

Join a community of learners--use Pocket Pearls on the Web or Palm handheld:

• Web version
  (Georgetown University students, residents, and faculty) - Does not currently Sync with PDA
• PDA version
  (Other users without a Georgetown NetID) - Does not connect to Web Pearls

For more information about Pocket Pearls, please contact Dr. Weinfeld.

Acknowledgements

This project is funded by a CIRCLE Grant from the Georgetown University School of Medicine Office of the Academic Dean.

Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) designed and developed the Pocket Pearls web site and web application.

Thanks to Palm, Inc. for the donation of handhelds for student testing.