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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.

WebMic is an Internet interactive virtual microscope that resembles the use of a real microscope. It was developed by Dr Robert Ogilvie of the Medical University of South Carolina, USA.

Labyrinth is an experimental educational pathway authoring and delivery system being developed at the University of Edinburgh along with a number of other partners. Users are presented with set or randomly selected choices as they move through a Labyrinth, each of which has a consequence for the user. Examples include virtual patients, quizzes, games and tutorials.

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

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.

interactive medical sociology course from Cambridge University

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

A site of Georgetown University which looks at patient' experiences expressed through theatre, dance and poetry.

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

Video from the University of Michigan about a variety of Second Life Health sites

An interactive resource that introduces all the essential elements of human tissue: after reading a short text, visitors working singly or together to identify the photographs. Students are asked to identify structures on the slides and can then click the answers to check if they are right. This resoucre was developed by Dr Edward Friedlander of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and is amde available under creative commons.

Get Body Smart has been developed by Scott Sheffield. This site represents his attempt to create a fully animated and interactive eBook about human anatomy and physiology. The contents and design of this long-term project are based on my 21 years of teaching this material at the university level. This is a work in progress and Scott is happy for ineterested teachers and students to use the tutorials he has developed.

Welcome to the University of Aberdeen's Medical Education Unit Podcast site Short (10-15 minute) audio podcasts, on a range of core subjects for undergraduate medical students, updated weekly. Some contain slides which run with the podcast.

University of Alberta paediatrics site for medical students

Clinical skills videos and tutorials produced bt CETL Hefce funded project

from the university of california

"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.

"This free basic app converts medical language into everyday English. It is based on the award-winning Plain Language Medical Dictionary widget designed by Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan."

News, updates and insights from the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University

"Every summer, a handful of medical students spends two weeks in a nursing home as a patient. That's part of what's been called "the life-altering education" established by Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., the director of geriatrics education and research at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine."