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A doctor dies and goes to Hell. The Devil greets him and tells him that he would have to choose his eternity. The Devil opens the first door, in which doctors are hanging from their ankles and being whipped by demons. "Oh my God, I don't want that!" the doctor replies ... Funny stuff.

Publishing open access case reports from across healthcare

Online Community of the Canadian Medical association only open to physicians

eXe is an open source content authoring tool which works on both PCs and Macs. It has been developed in New Zealand and is free to download. It's reasonably straight forward to use and there are some helpful screencasts on the site which give you an overview of how to use the tool.

Online discussion forum and resources for those involved in teaching clinical skills

an open forum for professionals to communicate, discuss topics and share ideas with each other

Medical Education Online (MEO) is a peer-reviewed international Open Access journal for disseminating information on the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals.

"An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that aims to present and publish research on Medical Education covering medical, dental, nursing and allied healthcare professional education. "

SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies. The network visualisations of forum interactions provide an opportunity for teachers to rapidly identify patterns of user behaviour - at any stage of course progression. SNAPP has been developed to extract all user interactions from various commercial and open source learning management systems (LMS) such as BlackBoard (including the former WebCT), and Moodle. SNAPP is compatible for both Mac and PC users and operates in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

An open source polling tool

"The Curricula Organizer for Reproductive Health Education (CORE) is a collection of peer-reviewed, evidence-based teaching materials. It is an open access tool that anyone can use at any time free of charge."

"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.

"Peer observation and professional accountability for giving constructive feedback enhanced awareness of their skills education and training needs. It also opened the dialogue for identifying opportunities for peer assessment and feedback to support work-based education and skills development."

The Biomedicine Research Labs Island, which opened in January, 2008, is in fact the digital headquarters of RL organization S.H.R.O. of Philadelphia, PA. According to their press release "S.H.R.O. is committed to excellence in basic genetic research to cure and diagnose cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other chronic illnesses and to foster the training of young international doctors in a spirit of professionalism and humanism".

"Medical schools and Continuing Medical Education should focus on training programs for recognizing and handling linguistic barriers between physicians and patients. Patient education programs should encourage patients who experience language barriers to open up to physicians. In situations where language is a barrier, physicians and patients should be encouraged to use interpreters to enhance the expression of emotions."

"Map of Medicine Healthguides shows you the ideal, evidence-based patient journey for common and important conditions. It is a high-level overview that can be shared by patients and healthcare providers. "

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

A great collection of educational materials, requires registration

Post about a paper published in Computers and Education 2008 comparing student test results depending on whether they attended a specific classroom lecture or listened to the lecture as a podcast. There is also a link to the article. The results indicate that the students who listened to the podcast and tool notes scored significantly higher than the lecture condition.