How to Develop, Submit, and Get an iPad Application Accepted to the Apple Store

t e t t C e t e o i t m f t t t i e m INTRODUCTION Internet use for medical information seeking and continuing medical education has become an integral component of medical education. The iPad, Apple’s latest mobile hand-held computing device (Apple Computer, Cupertino, California), has great potential for educational use because of the perfect compromise between transportability and screen size. It is lighter and smaller than a laptop but has a similar screen size of 768 1,024 pixels. Aditional advantages over computer lapops include the iPad’s touch screen nd lack of a default orientation (porrait vs landscape) [1]. The iPad is already extremely popuar, with current estimates that 25 illion have been sold [2]. With repect to physician use, survey data reeals that iPadsareusedby30%ofdocors for a range of clinical purposes, ncluding medical record access, radioogic study review, and patient comunication. An additional 28% of the octors surveyed reported that they inend to purchase iPads in the next 6 onths [3]. Reports in the literature escribe clinical uses, including the reiew of radiologic studies in intensive areunits andoperating rooms[4,5], as ell as access to patient data and comunication between physicians [4]. hedevice’smobilitymakes it anexcelent resource for education as well, with ne advantage being that once downoaded, a highly interactive application app)maynotrequireInternetaccess to unction. Recognizing this potential, we deeloped an educational app for body T imaging, CTisus iQuiz: The HD dition, which has currently been ownloaded by 7,500 users in 1 ear. This is a free offline iPad applicaion designed to test students’ knowldge of body CT as well as to increase heir understanding of many of the pahologies that can be diagnosed with Tscanning. Itprovidesaneasy-to-use nvironment, which combines images, ext, andsoundtoenhance the learning xperience (Figure 1). On the basis of ur experience creating and distributng CTisus iQuiz: The HD Edition, his paper reviews the process of subitting an app to the Apple App Store or acceptance and distribution. Rather han focusingonthecontentandstrucure of an app for medical education, he purpose of this paper is to instruct nterested developers on the steps necssary to successfully develop and subit an app to the App Store.