Medical Education

Includes applications to learning in clinical settings

Anatomy tutorials

"Anatomy At A Glance makes a highly successful transition from paper to digital
While there are some potential improvements, this is a decent first attempt for Wiley-Blackwell
Those looking for a digital copy of Anatomy At A Glance will not go far wrong with this app"

"Touch Surgery is a mobile surgical simulator that allows you to learn by doing. "

"The aim of this iBook is to help students learn and understand the structure and function of the brachial plexus by guiding the reader through four key areas. There is extensive use of interactive content throughout the app in the form of videos, question sessions in addition to the options offered as part of the iBooks app. This includes the ability to highlight passages, make notes or generate study cards based on material within the iBook."

Series of short video tutorials covering topics like immunology and neuro anatomy.

"Role modelling is a powerful teaching tool for passing on the knowledge, skills, and values of the medical profession, but its net effect on the behaviour of students is often negative rather than positive"

UCLA researchers have created a crowd-sourced online gaming system in which players distinguish malaria-infected red blood cells from healthy ones by viewing digital images obtained from microscopes. 

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Various videos about teaching online

"The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Collection is compiled by the SAEM Simulation Interest Group, working with the SAEM Simulation Task Force. Cases can be posted for sharing and feedback only, or for peer-review and publication. "

Toronto General Hospital Perioperative Interactive Education

"To describe the essential components of the medical model of substance use disorders.
To delineate the interviewing skills necessary to screen effectively for substance use and abuse.
To understand the high rate of psychiatric and medical co-morbidity and more effectively screen patients for these disorders.
To demonstrate skills for evaluating patients' stage of change, readiness to accept the diagnosis, and readiness to undertake behavior change.
To clearly and supportively recommend treatment to patients with substance use disorders.
To describe the skills required for addiction prevention counseling.
To define the skills that help set respectful limits on patient requests for prescription medication.
To demonstrate awareness of how physician/clinician attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders impact recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of patients.
To demonstrate knowledge of substance use disorder treatment standards and the ability to recommend appropriate referrals."

"In conclusion, this study shows that life satisfaction decreased somewhat during medical school. The medical students were initially as satisfied as other students, but the level of life satisfaction in their final year was lower than that of other comparable students. Medical students who sustained high levels of life satisfaction perceived medical school as interfering less with their social and personal life, and made less use of passive, emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking, than did their peers. Medical schools should encourage students to try to achieve a balance between schoolwork and their social and personal lives, and emphasise the importance of healthy coping strategies, for instance, by providing stress management courses. "

A collection of policies by Andrew Sprong

"Connect with over 567,000 US physician colleagues in 87 specialties,
including former or current medical school classmates and residents. "

A list of the multiple apps produced from Epocrates