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"This toolkit was designed to assist in creating a dialogue among current and future physicians about social media and issues regarding digital literacy and digital professionalism."

HEAL is a digital library of peer reviewed digital learning resources that can be downloaded and used/reproduced in local teaching resources. To download content you will need to register for a free account. Collections include anatomical illustrations from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

"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"

"You need to learn how to exercise mindful deployment of your attention online if you are going to become a critical consumer of digital media; productive use of Twitter or YouTube requires knowledge of who your public is, how your participation meets their needs (and what you get in return), and how memes flow through networked publics. Ultimately, the most important fluency is not in mastering a particular literacy but in being able to put all five of these literacies together into a way of being in digital culture."

Version 3.0 of Andrew Churches revision of Bloom for the digital age.

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

There is a learning curve, but it's oddly addictive.

The six teaching points above collectively approach a framework that includes curation as a core media literacy competence for the digital generation

A look at Merits and need of Digital signage in Health care institutes

MedEd Portal is the AAMC's digital library of peer reviewed e-learning resources. These resources are free to use and made available to teachers under the Creative Commons Licence. To search and download the resources you will need to create an account.

"A new type of CBPS, the digital storytelling system, has been developed and evaluated which and appears to be successful in overcoming some of the limitations of earlier CBPS by featuring patient's stories in their own words, by focusing on problems rather than diseases, and by having stories that are quick for students to work through."

"Learning is a social, active, and ongoing process. What would a motivated group of self-learners need to know to agree on a subject or skill, find and qualify the best learning resources about that topic, select and use appropriate communication media to co-learn it? Beyond technology, what do they need to know about learning and putting learning programs together? What does a group of people need to know to use today's digital resources to co-learn a subject? This handbook is intended to answer that last question and provide a toolbox for co-learners."

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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.  Working o

"Greg Matthews (@chimoose) at the communications firm WCG says he now follows more than 500 doctors on Twitter and has started profiling those who've pioneered digital and social media tools at MDigitalLife, a blog series hosted by his employer."

An on-line tutorial developed by JISC and Intute on how to find copyright free images on the web for your work. The tutorial includes an overview of legal responsibilities in using images and provides an overview of different licensing models for digital images. It also gives details of some sites which individuals might want to take a look at.