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Patient Centered Learning: The solution is to permit alternatives to rigid institutions, utilize free internet programs, and have medical students assist practicing physicians by assisting practicing physicians in taking patient histories. These students would offer valuable, free services to doctors. At the same time, they would have a vivid learning experience by spending several hours each day interacting with actual patients. The Cost Of Medical Education Would Be Negligible. The expense of healthcare is directly proportional to the cost of the doctor's education. With the institutional bottleneck gone, there would be a greater number of doctors, and the cost of healthcare would plummet.

Every time you need to use health care in today's world, a gauntlet of obstacles stands between you and the service. Not much different than visiting Dr. Hippocrates, way back when...

Faculty of 1000 Medicine is a unique online service that helps you stay informed of high impact articles and access the opinions of global leaders in medicine. Its distinguished faculty of over 2400 of the world's top clinicians and researchers select, rate and evaluate the most important and influential articles, presenting a continuously updated, authoritative guide to the medical literature that matters

"The object of Face the Case is to acquire the skills to solve a variety of health and human services cases. Case descriptions are delivered to you through the PDA. The PDA also keeps track of the skills, skill points and collaborators for each player. "

"A number of reasons commonly given for lecturing and claims commonly made for the efficiency of lecturers are examined for their basis in empirical evidence and common sense. Most of these claims are found to be somewhat weak. It appears that lecturing takes place rather more often than can be reasonably justified. The real reasons for the popularity of lecturing amongst lecturers are then examined. Of the twenty reasons for lecturing examined here, the first nine have little substance and the last eleven are avoidable."

A collection of multimedia resources

To educate public health professionals on the importance of health literacy and their role in providing health information and services and promoting public health literacy.

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.

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) developed and launched MedEdPORTAL as a free publishing venue and dissemination portal to support educators and learners as they create and use on-line teaching materials, assessment tools and faculty development resources.

"This exercise is a small group discussion about bias for medical students who have had at least some clinical experience, and designed to cultivate awareness that bias is inherent to all humans, including physicians, and can impact patient care. "

"The AAMC has gathered a list of many of the milestones in medical knowledge and practice achieved at these institutions. The reported discoveries run from 1809 to the present. As new advances in patient care and research are realized, this site will be updated. "

MedEdPORTAL listing of medical science resources

A patients guide from UK

Association of American Medical Colleges repository of learning objects