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Academic Educational Resource Examples

Loyola University Medical School/LUMEN – The LUMEN project is an effort to make major portions of medical education publicly accessible online.

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/

Stanford University Medical School – The URLs below describe Stanford resources on CD or available online. Advanced educational research projects in surgical simulation are also discussed at the SUMMIT sites.

Learning Technologies home page: http://learningtech.stanford.edu/

SUMMIT home page: http://summit.stanford.edu

Current projects page: http://summit.stanford.edu/research/current.html

Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences National Capital Simulation Center – This simulation center has many of the interactive programmable mannequins used in other medical schools (see University of Michigan below), but it also has advanced surgical and virtual reality simulators. In addition, it incorporates an area for testing physical exam and interpersonal skills on standardized patients (actors and lay persons) that have been trained to mimic certain diseases and conditions.

Home page: http://simcen.usuhs.mil/

University of Iowa Virtual Hospital – The Virtual Hospital is an effort to make major portions of medical education publicly accessible online and to provide other medical information resources to practitioners.

Home page: http://www.vh.org

University of Michigan Clinical Simulation Center – This center is representative of most simulation centers operated by medical schools and other health science centers providing interactive mannequins for practicing procedures and solving problems. The mannequins can be programmed to simulate a range of conditions and respond appropriately to varied interventions. Home page: http://www.med.umich.edu/umcsc/

University of Utah Medical Library/Knowledge Weavers – The Knowledge Weavers are a group that consults with faculty on the development of course materials. The program at the University of Utah also is part of a consortium supporting the HEAL project, a repository of sharable educational objects for health education.

Home page: http://medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/

Health Assets Education Library (HEAL): http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp

University of Washington/Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics – The URLs below describe an academic program in medical education and informatics, offer a link to an online patient education program indicative of those used in problem based learning, and examples of online continuing education courses typically offered by medical schools.

Home page: https://www.dme.washington.edu/

Patient simulation page: https://www.dme.washington.edu/patientsimulation/overview.html

Continuing education online courses: http://uwcme.org/site/courses/online.php

Visible Embryo Project – This project has developed a repository of resources in embryology that can be shared among institutions.

Home page: http://netlab.gmu.edu/visembryo/index.html

Products and animations: http://www.uic.edu/com/surgery/embryo/index.htm

Government Educational Resource Examples

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – The URLs below are to online and other resources that keep public health professionals up-to-date in epidemiology, biochemistry and related fields and provide timely training in response to emergencies arising from epidemics or bioterror. The National Training Laboratory Network at CDC uses satellites and the Internet to link state health departments with videoconferences and webcasts.

Home page: http://www.cdc.gov

National Training Laboratory Network: http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/nltn/

National Institutes of Health - The various institutes of the National Institutes of Health fund development of educational materials. Its Videocast Department regularly broadcasts seminars and meetings on a wide range of health topics via the Internet.

Home page: http://www.nih.gov

Videocast Page: http://videocast.nih.gov

Visible Human Project – This project has developed an image database of the entire male and female adult anatomy as both gross anatomy and magnetic resonance images (MRIs) and computer tomography (CT) scans that can be used by others to create diagnostic tools and educational programs.

Home page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

Additional government web sites – Check out the National Institute of Health and National Library of Medicine web sites listed under consumer health below.

Company/Foundation Educational Resource Examples

Pfizer – The URL below has links to information concerning use of company products and to health resources geared to different populations.

Home page: http://www.pfizer.com

Merck Pharmaceuticals – The company maintains the Merck Medicus website for health professionals and the Merck Source site with resources for the general public.

Merck Medicus: http://www.merckmedicus.com

Merck Source: http://www.mercksource.com

Foundations – The Kellogg, Nemours, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations are three of the more active in funding health research and education programs. Nemours has funded the DuPont Children’s Hospital PedsEducation and KidsHealth web sites for health professionals and consumers respectively (see Clinic and Hospital URLs section below).

Kellogg Foundation home page: http://www.WKKF.org

Nemours Foundation home page: http://nemours.org

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation home page: http://www.rwjf.org

Professional Society and Health Association Educational Resource Examples

American Academy of Pediatrics – Its site typifies consumer health information offered by many health professional societies.

Home page: http://www.aap.org/

American College of Cardiology – The ACC has an online catalog to education resources for cardiologists as well as online information and media resources, some of which cardiologist can use with their patients.

Home Page: http://www.acc.org

American Heart Association – The AHA web site is consumer oriented with cooking tips and other information for maintaining a healthy heart.

Home page: http://www.americanheart.org

iPeds Interactive Journal of Pediatrics – This electronic journal in pediatrics consist mainly of interactive case presentations. Questions regarding diagnosis and treatment are interspersed throughout the case presentations.

http://www.medconnect.com/ipeds/ipedsmain.asp

Radiological Society of North America Education Portal – The RSNA web site provides case studies, tutorials, and a virtual journal club for students and health professionals. It offers information about different imaging techniques for the general public.

http://www.rsna.org/education/

Hospital/Clinic Websites and Educational Resource Examples

Brigham and Women’s Hospital – This Harvard affiliated institution is typical of the kind of information provided by hospitals.

Home page: http://www.brighamandwomens.org

DuPont Children’s Hospital – This hospital provides education for health professionals at its PedsEducation web site and information on health topics geared especially for children at its KidsHealth website.

DuPont Children’s Hospital PedsEducation: http://www.pedseducation.org

DuPont Children’s Hospital KidsHealth: http://www.kidshealth.org

Mayo Clinic – The three we sites below mirror the three activities of the clinic. One provides information about the clinic itself, another provides information for patients and consumers about their health, and the third provides information about its academic programs as a teaching institution.

Patient Information: http://www.mayoclinic.com

Clinic Information: http://www.mayoclinic.org

Academic Information: http://www.mayo.edu

Consumer Educational Resource Examples

National Library of Medicine – The NLM maintains databases to the medical literature that are of primary interest to health professionals, but its MedlinePlus site is for the general public. It has links to online health resources that have been independently vetted to insure content integrity and has medical dictionaries and tutorials to help consumers understand health concepts. The ClinicalTrails web site is of interest to persons wanting to participate in clinical trials of new drugs and therapies, usually persons for whom conventional care has been unsuccessful.

Home page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov

MedlinePlus: http://medlineplus.gov

ClinicalTrials: http://clinicaltrials.gov

National Institutes of Health – All the institutes comprising the NIH offer some form of consumer health information related to the health problems that each addresses. The various institute home pages can be access from the NIH institutes page.

Home page: http://www.nih.gov/icd/

Additional consumer information/education sites – Check out virtually all the clinic and hospital sites, the professional society and health association sites, and the Pfizer and Merck sites in the company/foundation sites listed above.

Continuing Medical Education Educational Resource Examples

Cyberounds – This commercial web site offers CME that involves engaging in online discussions about cases posted by experts.

Home page: http://www.cyberounds.com

University of Florida – This medical school CME web site streams presentations made at the school as a way to extend access to practitioners in the field.

Grand Rounds: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/cme/grounds/index.shtml

University of Washington – The University of Washington Continuing Medical Education site is typical of the CME offering of many medical schools.

Continuing education online courses: http://uwcme.org/site/courses/online.php

Additional continuing education web sites – See all the professional society and health association web sites.

Websites of Organizations Concerned with Problem Based Learning

American Association of Medical Colleges – The AAMC has been instrumental in providing information about problem based learning. It establishes curriculum and evaluation guidelines for medical schools.

http://www.aamc.org

National Board of Medical Examiners – Most states have their own tests for licensure and certification, but the NBME is the primary national licensure and certification agency that is honored by most states. It is developing tests to measure problem solving and has sponsored research about the approach.

http://www.nbme.org

The University of Washington Patient Simulation Page – This is an example of a highly interactive online case that illustrates the approach.

Patient simulation page: https://www.dme.washington.edu/patientsimulation/overview.html

Additional problem based learning web sites - Check out most of professional society and health association web sites listed above.

Websites of Organizations Concerned with Evidence Based Medicine

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – This government agency does technology assessments summarizing the research on different medical practices and therapies. It provides evidence based guidelines for providing clinical care and supports the National Guideline Clearinghouse.

Home page: http://www.ahrq.gov/

National Guideline Clearinghouse: http://www.guideline.gov

Bandolier – An independent journal summarizing research evidence related to health. It has been supported by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and is currently supported by Oxford University medical School and by subscription.

http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/

Cochrane Collaboration – An independent organization of volunteers contributing summaries of medical research in varied specialty areas.

http://www.cochrane.org

Healthgate – A private company providing evidence based medicine services. Online tutorials on different evidence based approaches to care are provided.