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The apps a UK FY1 actually opens on shift

Most "best apps" lists are twenty entries long and written by someone who has not held a bleep. In practice you open three or four, and which ones depends on what the job actually is.

The one you cannot avoid: your trust guidelines

Whatever your hospital uses — MicroGuide, an intranet page, a PDF someone emailed you — this outranks everything else on this page. Antimicrobials in particular are local, and a national answer can be the wrong one on your ward.

The BNF

Definitive for doses, interactions and renal adjustment. Slow to search when you already know the drug and want one number, which is why people end up with something faster alongside it rather than instead of it.

Something for the structure, not the facts

The gap most F1s actually have is not "what is the dose of adrenaline" — it is what to do in the ninety seconds after you walk into the bay. That is what bleep oncall is for: 136 pathways, the ward-cover jobs, 43 calculators, worked scenarios to practise on before the real one, and all of it offline for the ward where the wifi dies.

Set them up before your first shift, not during it

Every one of these wants a login, a trust selection or a download while you have signal. Doing that in a corridor at 3am with one bar is how people end up guessing.