Essential Health Links: Medical Education and Clinical Skills


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Culture Clues
Cyberanatomy Tutorials
eMedicine
Ethnomed
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
healthtraining.org
Helping Health Workers Learn
Innovative Partnership in Global Health Education
International Federation of Medical Students Associations
Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Medical Student.com
Medical Teaching
Patient Safety Solutions
Physical Exam Study Guide
Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine
Public Health: OpenCourseWare
Screening Physical Exam
tropED
Vital Signs
World Federation for Medical Education (WFME)
World Lecture Hall

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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://www.emedicine.com/specialties.htm

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://www.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

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/

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. http://healthwrights.org/books/helpinghwlearn.htm

Innovative Partnership in Global Health Education  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is a series of international health modules from The School of Medicine at the University of Wales Swansea, UK and the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. They include self-paced powerpoint modules on: the global burden of health, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, tuberculosis, obesity and an introduction to medical parasitology. http://www.medicine.swan.ac.uk/inthealth.html

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/

Medical Teaching  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Medical Teaching is an Internet gateway that has been produced for medical school tutors in Africa. The resources are arranged by subject and by type of resource (database, discussion list, teaching resource etc). The project is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, UK. http://www.medicalteaching.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.jointcommissioninternational.org/24839a>

Physical Exam Study Guide
The site reviews the principle components of a physical examination. For each component, it summarizes the equipment needed, general considerations and diagnostic particulars. The site is a study guide for medical students and is maintained by the University of Florida, College of Medicine, U.S. http://medinfo.ufl.edu/year1/bcs/clist/

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://medicine.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. Currently containing fifteen courses, the project plans to add up to one hundred courses by the end of the decade. One of the courses is specifically related to "Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers" in developing countries: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/TrainingMethodsContinuingEducation/index.cfm http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

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

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/

Vital Signs  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site is a 'best practice information sheet' for vital signs based on a systematic review of research. It is organized by vital sign (respiratory rate, pulse, blood pressure and temperature). The site is maintained by the Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery, Australia. http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/best_practice/bp8.php

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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Updated: 10 April 2008