Palm devices are making a large impact on medicine and higher education in general. As the technology progresses and wireless networks are deployed, handheld computers will become even more commonplace than the desktop and will provide assistance in both the classroom and in the clinical environment.

Andrew Morton is a librarian at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. One of his interests is the deployment and use of Palm devices in higher education and finding expanded uses for them within research and instruction. You can contact him at acmorton@hotmail.com.