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"Multimedia design principles are easy to implement and result in improved short-term retention among medical students, but empirical research is still needed to determine how these principles affect transfer of learning. Further research on applying the principles of multimedia design to medical education is needed to verify the impact it has on the long-term learning of medical students, as well as its impact on other forms of multimedia instructional programmes used in the education of medical students."

"In conclusion, a relatively small percentage of students use multimedia (audio and video) that are provided as a duplication of lectures in the basic sciences. The distribution of frequency of access of both video and audio files was consistent across the various courses offered in the first two years of medical school. There were significant correlations in the frequencies with which individual students viewed videos of lectures from course-to-course. Finally, there was a trend for an inverse association between the frequencies with which students viewed lectures and the grades they received in the course. This is an important observation that requires further investigation since it may be indicative of a maladaptive learning strategy for some students. It also does not exclude the possibility that additional computer-aided resources may be detrimental to some students. "

"Physicians now have access to close to 400 multimedia procedures on their iOS devices. With the Procedures Consult app from Elsevier, access a centralized collection of expert videos, high quality illustrations and text demonstrating essential procedures in detail. The app allows for text and illustration content to be stored on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod"

"The San Francisco-based startup, Inkling, adapted the 4,400 page McGraw-Hill text, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, for the iPad with "interactive animations and other multimedia elements." "

a self-training, user-friendly educational software program, available at the Lysosomal Storage Research Group (http://www.lysosomalstorageresearch.ca), was developed using the Adobe Flash multimedia platform. It was designed to function both to provide a realistic, interactive virtual clinic and instantaneous access to supporting literature on Hunter disease.

This site had medical illustrations which you can download and use. The illustrations have been generated by Patrick J Lynch for multimedia teaching projects by the Yale University School of Medicine, Center for Advanced Instructional Media.

Helpful site with screencast tutorials giving overviews of programmes such as Adobe Flash etc developed by Russell Stannard of the University of Westminister.

A bioethics blog by Chris Wilmott from the University of Leicester highlighting multimedia resources for teaching bioethics.

Video interactive cases

A humorous take on working rurally

A collection of multimedia resources

Caroline Wellbery, MD; Reid GoochFrom the Department of Family Medicine,Georgetown University. Background to "Interacting with the Medical Humanities"

Series of animated tutorials

The hippocampus plays a vital role in enhancing memory in those who are actively engaged in learning something new. It coordinates with other brain structures to accomplish different tasks, such as recognizing an object one has seen before or remembering its original location."