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healthtraining.org (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The website provides comprehensive information on
postgraduate training and further education in the field of
International Health. The site is accessed by a set of search
criteria: topic, institution, country, type of degree and
language. It is maintained by Medicus Mundi Switzerland, the
Swiss Network of Organizations for International Cooperation
in Health Care.
http://www.healthtraining.org/
Clinical Guidelines: Diagnosis and Treatment Manual (Spanish, French) (Focus on low-income countries)
Developed by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontierès (MSF), the Guidelines balance the need to practice conventional evidence-based medicine in contexts that require unconventional approaches. Chapters included are Respiratory Diseases, Gastrointestinal Diseases, Skin Diseases, Eye Diseases, Parasitic Diseases, Bacterial Diseases, Virus Diseases, Genito-urinary Diseases, Medical and Minor Surgical Procedures and other conditions. For each disease, the manual includes clinical features, laboratory tests and treatment. The manual is a downloadable PDF file.
http://www.refbooks.msf.org/MSF_Docs/En/Clinical_Guide/CG_en.pdf
Culture Clues
Culture Clues provides advice for healthcare providers who
are caring for people from cultures other than their own. The
resource includes seven pdf files on the care of Albanians,
African Americans, Chinese, Korean, Latin Americans, Russians
and Vietnamese. The advice is targeted to US doctors but is
useful worldwide. The files have been developed by the
Patient and Family Education Services, Medical College,
University of Washington, U.S.
http://depts.washington.edu/pfes/cultureclues.html
Cyberanatomy Tutorials
This site contains anatomy tutorials, using graphics, audio
and video. It includes tutorials on the skull, eye, and
brachial arches. It also includes a few clinical tutorials
(eg lumbar puncture; epidural anaesthesia) and clinical
examinations of the breast, chest, back, abdomen and knee.
The site is maintained by the University of Newcastle on
Tyne, UK.
http://mbbs-anatomy.ncl.ac.uk/
eMedicine
The site includes an
extensive and detailed subject list of summaries of medical
conditions. Each summary contains an outline of clinical
information, workup, treatment, medication and follow-up for
each condition. Also, the site is a 'continuing medical
education' resource, targeted mainly to U.S. physicians.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/specialties
Ethnomed (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site provides medical and cultural information that
relates to health care of the following cultural groups:
Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Mexican,
Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, Vietnamese. The site is designed for
use by health professionals in the USA, but is useful for any
health professional who deals with patients from a diverse
range of cultures. The site is maintained by the Harborview
Medical Center, University of Washington, U.S.
http://ethnomed.org/
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Italian, Spanish)
This site contains several full-text publications on health,
reproductive healthcare and family planning, in English,
French, Italian and Spanish. The Foundation has a focus on
Francophone regions, and developing and transitional
countries. The site is a collaboration with WHO Collaborating
Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction.
http://www.gfmer.ch/000_Homepage_En.htm
Global Health Delivery Online Information (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This online platform of 'communities' has been developed by the Global Health Delivery Project. It is a tool for health care implementers to share proven practices, connect with colleagues, and find resources they need to improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings. The communities include Adherence & Retention, Global Health Nursing and Midwifery, Global Surgery and Anesthesiology, Health IT, HIV Prevention, Malaria Treatment and Prevention, MDR-TB Treatment and TB Infection Control. Each community contains discussions, resources and email messages, and individuals can register for multiple groups. The site also has a keyword search engine.
http://www.ghdonline.org/
Guide for Documenting and Sharing ‘Best Practices in Health Programmes (French, Portuguese)
This document outlines the process necessary for documenting and disseminating 'Best Practices' or 'techniques or methodologies that, through experience and research, have proven reliably to lead to a desired result'. The Guide defines what is best practices, notes examples and outlines the procedures for identifying and documenting best practices and dissemination of the outcomes. It was developed by the WHO/Regional Office for Africa in 2008 and, as a PDF file, is downloadable in English, French and Portuguese.
http://afrolib.afro.who.int/documents/2009/en/GuideBestPractice.pdf
Health Sciences Online
This is a useful tool to access Internet based health
resources, particularly clinical guidelines/handbooks,
courses, lectures, articles and reports. It contains links to
over 50,000 Internet resources via a dynamic search engine
that prioritizes the resources and allows you to refine your
initial searches by resource type and language. For each
link, the search contains a preview, the source and the size
of the document.
http://hso.info
Helping Health Workers Learn ( Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
The site links to the fulltext pdf. version of 'Helping
Health Workers', a book of methods, aids, and ideas for
instructors at the village level. Including hundreds of
drawing and photographs, it has been written for instructors
and health workers who serve the underserved in developing
countries. The material is available in Spanish and is
authored by David Werner and Bill Bower. You will need to access it from the Hesperian 'download' page
http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/
International Federation of Medical Students Associations
The IFMSA promotes international cooperation and exchange of
ideas and experience among medical students worldwide.
http://www.ifmsa.org/
Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
The site is a resource of over 1900 pathology images with
text, tutorials, lab exercises and examination questions for
self-assessment. The site is maintained by the College of
Medicine, Florida State University, U.S.
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
Medical Student.com
This is a digital library of authoritative medical
information designed to help all students of medicine. It
includes links to medical textbooks, simulated consultations,
patient education, consumer health information, medical
organizations and other sites of interest. The links are
selected by peer review.
http://www.medicalstudent.com/
Medpedia
The Medpedia wiki is the collaborative encyclopedia and resource for information about
health, medicine and the body. It is an open platform connecting people and information to advance science. Contributing to the wiki is limited to physicians or those who have a Ph.D. who have registered with the project. Access to information is by a keyword search engine. The project is a collaborative effort by the Harvard School of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health and University of Michigan Medical School.
http://www.medpedia.com/
MERLOT Health Sciences Portal
This ‘Health Sciences Portal’ is an educational
resource for teaching and learning. It is a community of
educators who are able to communicate ideas and share
resources. The site contains extensive lists of annotated
links to ‘learning materials’ including sections
on
Health Sciences and
Technical Allied Health http://healthsciences.merlot.org/
Patient Safety Solutions
Launched in May 2007, the WHO and Joint Commission
International have developed a site titled 'Nine patient
safety solutions'. The goal of this endeavor is to help
reduce the toll of health care-related harm affecting
millions of patients worldwide. The topics range from
look-alike medication names to control of electrolyte
solutions, avoiding catheter and tubing misconnections and
single use injection devices. All solutions are available as
downloadable PDF files.
http://www.who.int/patientsafety/solutions/en/
Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine
The site explains all aspects of history-taking and physical
examination. It is written for medical students and other
health professionals. The site is maintained by the
University of California, San Diego (U.S.), School of
Medicine.
http://meded.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/
Public Health: OpenCourseWare
This Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, U.S.
site contains the initial phase of OpenCourseWare project.
The objective of this endeavor is to provide free,
searchable, access to JHSPH's course materials for educators,
students, and self-learners throughout the world. These
Internet based courses are self-paced and do not require
registration nor grant degrees or certificates. One of the
courses is specifically related to "Training Methods and
Continuing Education for Health Workers" in developing
countries.
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/find.browse#courses
Screening Physical Exam
The site is a detailed, illustrated outline of a physical
exam. It is organized by systems of the body (nervous system,
cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, etc.) The site is maintained
by the School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago, U.S.
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/Medicine/pulmonar/pd/contents.htm
Supercourse (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Originally a resource for global health and prevention
lectures, the Supercourse websites contains an extensive
listing of health-related teaching material on the Internet.
Lectures can be accessed by topic, author or primary
subject.. The site is maintained by the WHO Collaborating
Center, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/
tropEd (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This website gives a survey tropical medicine and
international health courses organized by institutes and
universities in 13 European countries: course descriptions,
academic regulations, scholarships, practical information,
news and events.
http://www.troped.de/
World Federation for Medical Education (WFME)
WFME is the global organisation concerned with education and
training of medical doctors. The site contains information
about WFME, its journal Medical Education (not freely
available except through schemes such as Synergy), and links
to related organizations.
http://www.wfme.org/
World Lecture Hall
The World Lecture Hall links to academic institutions that
use the Web to deliver course materials. It includes courses
in anatomy, biochemistry, biotechnology, gerontology,
medicine, microbiology, neuroscience, nursing, psychology and
statistics. The site is maintained by the University of Texas
at Austin, U.S.
http://www.vcu.edu/mdcweb/english/
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