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/ 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 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/ 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 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/ 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 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 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 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 The IFMSA promotes international cooperation and exchange of ideas and experience among medical students worldwide. http://www.ifmsa.org/ 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 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/ The Medpedia Project is a long-term, worldwide project to develop a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine for medical professionals and the general public.  It is similar to the Wikipedia and is based on providing a free and collaborative online technology platform.  Editing access to the individual entries is limited to individuals with M.D. or Ph.D. degrees.  'Article' information can be accessed by subject group or a keyword search engine.   The site also contains sections titled tools for Medical Professionals, Patients and Organizations http://www.medpedia.com/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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 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/ 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/ 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/pdf/BPISEng_3_3.pdf 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/ 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/ Help us to improve Essential Health Links. Please send your comments and suggestions to: eh-links@healthnet.org