AMIA (American Medical Informatics
Association) Webserver has information on the AMIA organization,
its strategic plan, publications, activities, and meetings, includes
schedules, paper submission, and registration information for upcoming
meetings. There is a description of AMIA's Working Groups including the
Internet Working Group.
AMSA WWW
Homepage has task force info, and a software archive which has software and clip art,
to download, including Notecard software for making
review questions (includes 700 review questions), and has a good
collection of medical education related links.
Cardiac Development
CEU Module Animated graphics, video clips, and hot links that cover
the steps from the primitive tube to 4-chambered heart and highlights
septal development. Directed at nurses for continuing education. there
is also: Ventricular
Septal Defect CEU Module
Microscopy
Primer, from FSU, shows how to set up and use a microscope, how to
take photomicrographs.
Dr. Edward R. Friedlander's
Page, Pathology Chair, Osteopathic Med School in KC lists hobby and
interests, programs to download, list of lecture
outlines available by email (WordPerfect 4.2). Dr. Friedlander also
maintains a mailing list PATHDOC for discussion of pathology education
and for medical student pathology questions. To subscribe send email to
maiser@alum.uhs.edu with
SUBSCRIBE PATHDOC in the body of the message.
Information Quest Electronic
Online Systems (EOS) International is a global library information
management software and service company. We offer a comprehensive range
of products and services to meet the needs of libraries of all types
and sizes. ? Journal search service
Instant
Chat Please Note: International Pediatric Chat (IPC) is exclusively
for Pediatric professionals. Parents and family members are prohibited
from participating in live discussions. They are, however, welcome to
observe. Requires registration
Interactive
Medical Student Lounge good set of general resources, some oriented
more for students, cute link to Star trek Associated email list:
mailto:MAISER@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu subscription message: sub medical
The Interactive
Patient (Marshall U.) The Interactive Patient is a WWW interactive
medical education tool that simulates an actual patient encounter.
Users ask a patient history questions, perform a physical exam, order
laboratory and x-ray tests and submit a diagnosis and a treatment plan.
Detailed feedback is provided. If site is busy, try this Mirror site.
Contact: medicus@musom02.mu.wvnet.edu
Med-Ed FTP site, U. of CA,
Irvine has Health-info- com newsletters, mac software (no
pathology), msdos software (some cp cases and test ordering excercise),
clinical chemistry tutorial, info on multiple sclerosis & chronic
fatigue synd, general internet tutorials (Zen, Hancock, etc).
Jefferson
Medical College Pathology Education has on-line course syllabus,
outline of pathology, searchable glossary, case-studies in many organ
systems (brief history plus images and questions), other relevant
images (not apparently searchable, has some questions but answers not
given), on- line question bank (slow- telnet guest connection), past
exams on-line, some faculty information.
Lage Bengtsson Problem
Based Learning project Use modern multimedia technique in
simulations of typical patient cases within different disciplines,
constructed to suit PBL, where special demands on the computer support
have been fulfilled. The design is intended to stimulate student
activity and discussions between students. Among other features, the
simulations are totally controlled by the students and the
communication with the program is in a "natural language".
Health Information Research
Unit, McMaster University Evidence-based medicine projects online,
help system, and some overviews, links to the international Cochrane
Collaboration, the Ontario Health Care Evaluation Network, the Evidence
Based Medicine Working Group and the Clinical Informatics Network.
Med
Guide Plus The MEd Guide is a WebSite intended to help physicians,
researchers, students of medicine and of the health sciences and
everyone interested locate medical resources on the Internet.
MEDI-CAL
Medical Education Software catalogue at this site includes a
Cardiac Auscultation Quiz,a Clinical medicine picture quiz, and a
chemical pathology tutorial. All for IBM and compatible PCs.
MedInfoPoli - Medical
Informatics WWW server two primary aims: to provide a fast and
structured access to information on the Internet related to medical
informatics to allow for easy and fast input of information related to
this specific field. Everyone accessing the Internet can upload data to
the server.
MEDICAL- Medical
Student Mail Discussion List subscription:
mailto:MAISER@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu Subscription Message: SUB MEDICAL
Associated with the on-line medical student lounge. Intended for
discussion of exams, residencies, and other topics of interest to
medical students. Many premeds participate.
WorldOrtho Orthopaedic
Teaching Files Features clinico-pathological case studies, a bank
of orthopaedic questions with answers, lecture notes, abstracts from
landmark orthopaedic literature, and an orthopaedic discussion forum.
Nepean Hospital, Australia.
Center for
Evidence- Based Medicine, Oxfordhas information about teaching and
using evidence based medicine. Neat interface, click on the icon with
the question mark at the top of the page for an explanation of all the
other icons.
The Primary Care
Internet Guide has a colletion of links for primary care
practitioners including relevant listings for occupational and
environmental medicine, medical education, and software and
informatics.
Problem
based learning- mailing list archive Archives of PBLIST, the
Problem Based Learning Discussion List, which features discussion of
applications of PBL to learning in the health sciences. To subscribe,
send the message: SUBSCRIBE PBLIST FIRSTNAME LASTNAME, to LISTPROC@SPARKY.UTHSCSA.EDU.
RAND Health
Survey This 36-item, multiple-choice questionnaire is based on the
"Short Form" SF-36. The survey is quick, easy, and confidential -- and
you can compare your scores with the those of the 2,500 participants of
the Medical Outcomes Study.
Real Education Real
Education's mission is to design, build, and manage complete online
university campuses and continuing education centers
Slice of Life Info
about the Slice of Life videodisk and educational programs that use it,
some downloadable demos and some images.
USC
2nd Year Learning programs has tutorials on renal diseases
including case studies. An on-line collection of
gifs includes renal diseases, also an assortment of general
histology and electron microscopy images.
Ed Uthman's Home Page
has a number of excellent short monographs aimed at
students, residents and the general public including a tutorial on
gross specimen photography good for residents, and one on lab test
interpretation that would be good for students.
VIRTUAL
MEDICAL CENTER has pointers to thousands of Multimedia Medical
Teaching Files/Manuals/Modules, Multimedia Medical Cases, and
continuing Medical Education Courses, including a Pathology
section.
Teaching
Critical Evaluation Skills for WWW Resources (Widener University)
has a presentation and a set of checklists to help users analyze the
quality of the information at various websites. Pages are classified as
advocacy, business/marketing, informational, news, or personal. Quality
criteria explained include authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency,
and coverage. Extensive bibliography, with links. Also has links to
pages to use as examples, including several medical ones.
Wayne State
CAI office Computer assisted instruction site at Wayne State U.
with links to other CAI sites
Web
Site for General Pathology Students, Wisconsin class schedules,
some text, lab materials including gross and microscopic images with
annotation, CPC cases. All microscopic images were digitally obtained,
all gross images were scanned. Annotation was performed using Aldus
persuasion.- pretty but slow to download. It is linked to the Med school server.
World Lecture
Hall On- line course materials from many universities includes some
anatomy, biochemistry, virtual hospital , virology, as well as internet
resources (under "Library science") and lots of other things
CLSEDUC-L, Clinical Laboratory Science / Medical Technology
Discussion Group is an email list focussed primarily on Medical
Technology education. Open to all Laboratory Educators at all levels of
training. To subscribe, send the message: Subscribe CLSEDUC-L your
email address, to listserv@LYNX.APSU.EDU.
