Links

Text, Illustrations, Videos, and Animations

 

Text

• Medpedia
• Health Sciences Online
• MedEdPortal
• eMedicine (free, but login required)
• Textbook of Bacteriology
• Global Text Project
• National Academies Press
• Satellife Essential Health Links

 

Illustrations and Animations

• Wikimedia commons
• Flickr - creative commons images
• Family Medicine Digital Resource Library
• National Medical Digital Repository - www.healthlibrary.ca
• MERLOT - Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
• The Noun Project
• HEAL - Health Education Assets Library
• CDC- Public Health Image Library
• PhotoShare
• PrimaryCareProcedures.com

 

Videos

• Dalhousie University Common Currency
• St George's University of London Clinical Skills Online
• PocketSnips - Open-Access health ed videos, produced by NOSM
• MedViden - Danish videos
• The DAVE project - gastroenterology videos
• MedicalAidFilms
• Development Media International

 

Cases

The following are online cases. Some are free; others are not.

• PINE - free and open source virtual patients for Canadian healthcare education
• Med-u.org - ($) pediatrics (CLIPP), internal medicine (SIMPLE), family medicine (fmCASES), surgery (WISE-MD)
• MedicalCases.eu

 

Technology

• Afrigadget.com
• Apps4good.ca
• blogs.dal.ca/distmeded
• pamoja.info
• Appfrica.net
• HiveCoLab - Uganda incubator
• mhalliance.org - mobile health alliance

 

 

Promising computing devices

• netbooks
• Apple's iPad
• enTourage eDGe
• One Laptop Per Child - XO-3
• India's $35 laptop prototype

 

Internet distribution approaches

eGranary - "Internet in a Box"

 

 

Publications

Mobile Africa Report 2011

 

jing: good for screen capture

 

 

hardware

www.medmatrix.com - used/refurbished equipment

Health Education and Curriculum Initiatives

The following are efforts to enhance and deliver distributed education:

 

Collections of Textbooks and Courses Health Information for All, 2015 AcademicEarth.org - collection of resources from around the world Open Courseware Consortium Open Learning Initiative TextbookRevolution.org OpenTextbook.org Directory of Open-Access Journals Supercourse (75 million hits yearly)

Connexions WikiBooks FreeBooks4Doctors WikiProject: medicine JusticeHarvard.org McGill Medical Informatics Student Projects WebMedCentral - free online publishing

 

Institutions and Organizations

Center for International Medicine, UCLA Commonwealth of Learning Global Health Delivery - Harvard Medical School GHDonline Global Health Learning Institute for Healthcare Improvement - Open University - free courses in patient safety, quality improvement, and leadership K4Health International Virtual Medical School Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education Jhpiego CapacityPlus - "Serving Health Workers, Saving Lives" (USAID) IntraHealth - "Strengthening health workers and the systems that support them" IMA World Health - "Faith-based organization providing health care services and supplies to vulnerable and marginalized people" African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) - "Training health workers in close to 40 African countries and beyond" Human Resources for Health (HRH) resource center Open Courseware Consortium Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - free or very low cost online access to the major journals for low- and middle- income countries

FAIMER - Foundation for Medical Education and Research GlobalHealthEDU.org - Gloal Health Education Consortium HealthyKids International - SickKids training in pediatrics for international physicians Primafamed - International Centre for Primary Health Care and Family Medicine Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - free or very low cost online access to the major journals for low- and middle- income countries Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research University of Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project Heart to Heart InMed Community Health Global Network Implementing Best Practices Knowledge Gateway THET - Tropical Health Education Trust (UK) CHW Central   SurgeryAndMedicine.com Peoples Open Access Education Initiative Sub-Sharan Africal Medical Schools Study Mullan et al. 2010. Medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet, 377 (9771):1113 - 1121. Wikiproject medicine editorial, BMJ

 

Initiatives

Surgery

• Southern Ethiopia Gwent Health Link

 

 

Educational Programs of Other Institutions

• Canadian Network of International Surgery - offers basic and enhanced training - classrooms, simulations, technical skills
• MercyShips
• SaveTheMothers
• wikieducator.org/Metawikieducator
• Directory of Open-Access Journals

Listing of Learning Objectives and Competencies

The following is a collection of objectives offered by various educational institutions around the world.

• CFPC Family Medicine Residency Competencies
• Foundation Programme Committee of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
• Liasion Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Accreditation Standards
• ScottishDoctor.org - learning outcomes in Scotland

• Millennium Development Goals

 

Press and Publications

 

Reports

Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada - the Future of Medical Education in Canada

 

Press

NYtimes - An Open Mind

 

Marketing

http://holisticpractitionermarketing.yolasite.com/

Other

 

Evidence-based Medicine

TripDatabase

Guideline.gov - US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Translators without Borders

 

 

http://www.inhisimage.org

http://www.hopepartnerships.org

 

Communities

• MedicalStudent.com
• StudentDoctor.net
• AfricaGathering.org
• Sermo.com - US physician community
• Canadian Virtual Health Library

 

• qMedNotes
• Encyclopedia of Informal Education
• Ipswich-Beira health Initiative, Mozambique
• International Justice Mission
• Interreligous Foundation for Community Organization
• Faith in Health Care
• Christian Healing Ministries

Tools

• Health-Evidence.ca
• Learning.bmj.com
• Isaplatform.com - Collaborative Web Platform for Support in Rare & Complex Clinical Cases