The Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership, in conjunction with the Saskatoon Health Region, showed three short films, each portraying a different perspective on poverty in Saskatoon. (We've included the YouTube links to the films.)"
"The Evidence Network of Canadian Health Policy, commonly known as EvidenceNetwork.ca is a non-partisan web-based project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Manitoba Health Research Council to make the latest evidence on controversial health policy issues available to the media. This site links journalists with health policy experts to provide access to credible, evidence-based information."
" This research suggests that the theoretical advantages linked to the self-assessment process are a result of its feedback component rather than the practice of self-assessment isolated from feedback. Further research exploring the effects of different contextual and personal factors on students' self-assessment is needed."
"We compiled a list of Internet links of 25 English-language, open-access (free) World Wide Web resources of educational cases in the field of infectious diseases."
"HealthRock® sets health education to music and song to make health information more memorable, enjoyable, and actionable. Award-winning physician Mache Seibel, MD aka DocRock™ combines up-to-the-second health education with rollicking, catchy music to give kids of all ages the information and inspiration they need to stay healthy, happy, and productive." Check out the music link for a complete list including women's health.
Medical education portal. Links to free open access medical education resources, monthly teaching cases, custom medical search. Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences-AIBS educational site., We created for our visitors a custom Google search engine that generates results from professional oriented sites for healthcare providers, leaving outside commercial pages. It is a highly specialized Custom Search Engine that reflects medical knowledge and interests.{kl_php} include("http://www.e-meducation.com/templates/daydream2blue/google.php");{/kl_php}, Orofacial pain and fever, Severe shortness of breath after PTCA, A short description of the procedure is presented for each case along with interesting remarks and teaching points. We present our findings in: Laparascopic surgery, Lesions on blue skin base, Fever in a patient with liver metastasis of bowel carcinoma
This post on Jim Groom's blog gives a number of examples and helpful links to institutions who are supporting blogging for both staff and students. Some examples include the University Mary Washington, Calgary and Penn State.
This is the homepage for the Web2Rights project funded by JISC and developed to help academics and students gain abetter understanding of IPR issues and other legal issues in relation to Web 2.0. The site includes use-cases, a blog and discussion forum and links to an ip toolkit and ip diagnostic tool which will take you through a project you are working on help identify any IPR issues which you need to consider.
CETL Rlos - project based at Cambridge involving Cambridge, Nottingham and London Metropolitan Universities. This page includes links to a series of RLOs covering issues such as ethics, pharmacology, study skills etc.
This site at the University of Virginia has links to a number of physical examination videos. These are Quicktime files so you will need the Quuicktime player to run them. These can be used in education under the Creative Commons Licence. University of Virginia have had these resources peer reviewed by MedEd Portal.
Franklin Consulting offers specialist advice and consultancy on the implementation of learning technologies. This site includes links to a number of reports lookign at different aspects of educational technology.
Whether your aim is to find a nursing school in Florida, a medical assisting program in Texas or a radiology course in California, these information resources and school search links will help you learn more about the health care career you're considering, and help you locate your school.