DynaMed

Since DynaMed was made available for ACP members I have used it as reference towards managing my clinic patients and teaching post graduate medical student. Demonstration slides are slightly scarce and would do better to help teaching. UpToDate has covered the latter aspect better.

After downloading it was very easy to navigate, especially after a brief tutorial by EBSCO staff.

App just opens a blank screen and totally unusable.

After following all the necessary steps to authenticate it, it fails to do so. I have contacted tech support who just sent me an auto-response with the same steps from the website. USELESS.

Fully uninstalling the app then reinstalling fixes said bugs and restores all mobile app features. After that, everything works fine. Couple with a database that's often updated, this is a valuable point-of-care tool.

The app grows over time from it’s original size, with the offline content downloaded of about ~4GB, to an enormous 30+ GBs. I have seen this happen on 3 of my devices. They need to fix this.

Very useful app but the app is crashed recently whenever I click on the menu.

I have used DynaMed, Epocrates and UpToDate. Dynamed gives you more bang to your buck than UpToDate which is $300 + for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Epocrates CME are not as easy to claim like Epocrates.

Dynamed not clearly recommend treatment pathways and abx like utd does and most certainly not with bold face, easy to reach tables, indenting and paragraph spacing. Where are the pictures, diagrams, illustrations, information for patients? Dynamed absolutely pales in comparison to UTD in any medical setting. It’s a cheap excuse of anything else available to a practicing clinician and barely suits a medical student. I would never pay a nickel for it to use, yet forced to use it since our institution chose the 4th rate option to save money. As a result, most of the attendings and housestaff across multiple services signed up independently to UTD, effectively wasting any potential economic savings with Dynamed.

Badly made app. Tries to download every time I try to use it and gets stuck on 99%.