Osteopathic Medicine
Anatomy
Cardiovascular System
Within athletic training, kinesiology, and nursing also see the section for blood. Within medical technology, also see the section for hematology. Within osteopathic medicine, also see the section for hematology within the molecular fundamentals of medicine section.
Anatomy of the Heart
Construct a heart circulation model and assemble a human heart.
Cardiovascular Physiology Tutorial
Answer questions on cardiac physiology and see how chemical solutions affect heart function.
Cardiovascular System Topics
Includes three animated series on the cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle, and blood pressure regulation. Note from Dr. Fitzovich on the cardiac action potential tutorial: “Be careful about control of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium release in cardiac cells because it is mediated by calcium influx, not depolarization of the SR. Also note that a ‘funny current’ due to a special sodium channel is responsible for the pacemaker function.”
HeartScape
Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additonal quizzes, please click here.
Learn Your Arteries
Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.
Map of the Human Heart
Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.
Shockwave animations
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
Digestive System
Abdominal Organs
Place the abdominal organs in their correct locations.
Dissection Images & Videos
Ithaca College Gross Anatomy Joints – labeled dissection images for joints
Laboratory Dissections Practice Practical
Choose an area of the body on the right to see quizzes for cadaveric images of the head and neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, back, osteology, upper extremity, and lower extremity. Click on “table of contents” at the top of the screen, choose a section, and then click on “laboratory dissection procedure” to see cadaveric images in which you can click on items for them to be pointed out in the image.
LUMEN Dissector – videos
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources – videos (click on “More Features” and then “Dissection videos”)
Eyes
Association of Technical Opticians
There are numerous helpful pages within the “Categories” section, which is on the middle of the right side of the page. Click on “visual field” to see simulations of visual field defects. For other helpful simulations and materials, see also “simulators,” “surgery,” “pupil reflex,” “diagnostic tests,” and “anatomy.” For a simulation of vision as seen through various eye related conditions, click on “software,” and click on “previous entries” until you see the entry for “simulator software;” the simulation is a zip file that can be downloaded.
Eye Simulation Application
See what happens when to eye movement and pupil dilation when nerves and muscles are not working.
General A&P Resources
Anatomy and Physiology I Animations: Movies and Interactive Tutorial Links
Includes links for basic neurons/synapses, the endocrine system, the muscular system, cell transport, DNA replication, and more.
AnatQuest
One section provides “cut-away views of the front, side and top of the entire male body.” The other section labels anatomic objects in the male chest area.
BBC – Human Body and Mind
Play drag-and-drop games to test your abilities to correctly place items in the muscular and skeletal system. Quiz yourself on nervous system connections and the senses. Learn interesting facts about physiology.
Get Body Smart
Includes exceptional interactive tutorials on the human skeletal system, muscular system, muscle tissue physiology, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology. One may turn labels off to quiz oneself on anatomy.
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.
HHMI’s BioInteractive
Includes animations on hearing, heart circulation, and invasions of bacteria and viruses. Includes modules on obesity, cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular, DNA, RNA, biological clocks, infectious diseases, immunology, and genomics and chemical genetics.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources
This University of Michigan Web site includes dissection videos, objectives (see list of sessions), clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, learning games (crossword puzzles, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Anatomy Jeopardy); tutorials, some of which include quizzes (see learning modules); practice quizzes, labeled models that can be rotated (see QuickTime VR Movies), radiology images, surface anatomy (good for the anatomy fashion show), and surgical videos.
Primal Anatomy
Includes interactive modules with text for the head and neck, axilla, spine, thorax & abdomen, knee, hip, hand, pelvis & perineum, and foot. Also includes a study guide and test bank. Also includes essential regional anatomy, acupuncture anatomy, and pilates anatomy. Also includes surgery videos and animations for the axilla, knee, knee arthroplasty, hip arthroplasty, and podiatric medicine.
The Anatomy Lesson
Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Muscular System
Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.
Facial Muscle Action Illustrated
In the drawing, click on a muscle to see videos of its action(s) and read information about it.
Get Body Smart Muscle Tissue Physiology
Tutorials cover the location and organization of muscle fibers, nerve supply to muscle fibers, and contraction of muscle fibers. Quizzes cover general characteristics of muscle fibers and internal organization of muscle fibers.
Learn Your Muscles
For each muscle, it provides an image that highlights the muscle and provides information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order or by region.
Muscle Atlas – Upper Extremities and Lower Extremities
Upper extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas/
Lower extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas2/
Depicts each muscle and gives information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order.
Muscle contraction animations:
Purdue North Central
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Nervous System
3-D Brain Anatomy
Learn the locations and functions of major brain sections on this 3-D model that you can rotate and zoom within. You can also explore the brain by area or function.
Animations
Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.
Cranial Nerves – Introduction
Provides an anatomical diagram of the cranial nerves, lists their functions, and allows you to take quizzes on the information. Also has a quiz on cranial nerve trivia.
Cranial Parasympathetics
Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.
Learn Your Cutaneous Innervation
Has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular nerves.
Learn Your Nerves
Click on drawings to learn the names, spinal cord segment(s), and muscular innervation(s) of individual nerves for the cranial nerves, cervical plexus, brachial plexus, and lumbosacral plexus.
Pathway Quizzes in Neuroanatomy
Includes eighteen quizzes for pathways in the anterolateral system, dorsal column, visual system, and more.
Synaptic Transmission
Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.
The 12 Cranial Nerves
This interactive tutorial includes animations to show what the cranial nerves control.
The Brain: Anatomy and Function
Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Radiologic Anatomy
HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Includes an overview of normal radiographic anatomy of the chest and 10 cases of common abnormalities.
LUMEN Cross-Sectional Tutorial
Includes MRI, CT, and images for cross-sections of the following regions: head and neck, upper limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and lower limb. Includes male and female thorax and pelvis cross-sections. Note from Shannon King: in cross section # 8 in the lower limb section, the answer to #1 should be tibialis anterior instead of extensor digitorum.
LUMEN Radiological Anatomy
Includes plain film, CT, and MRI images. Click on the image for anatomical labels.
Module One: Chest Radiology
This Harvard Web site includes an introduction, review of normal anatomy, 11 cases, and a normal CT.
Radiographic Anatomy of the Skeleton
View labeled and unlabeled images. Click on a structure to learn its name.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Skeletal System
Skeletal System
Provides detailed quizzes on labeling bones and landmarks. Write down your answers and compare them to the correct answers.
Spine: Normal Anatomy
Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.
The Bone Box
Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.
The eSkeletons Project
Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.
The Skull Practical Exam
Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.
Upper Extremities
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Inside the Shoulder Joint
Illustrates and describes anatomical components of the shoulder joint.
Learn the Brachial Plexus in Five Minutes or Less
Shows how to draw a diagram of the brachial plexus.
Databases
Dermatology
Classic Type I-IV Hypersensitivity Reactions in the Skin
View animations of the mechanisms, see clinical photos of the reactions, learn about differential diagnosis and histology, and take quizzes on the reactions.
VisualDxHealth
You can search for a disease by gender, age, and body location.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis Pro
Enter signs and symptoms to receive a listing of possible diagnoses; to do this, search for one sign or symptom, choose it, and then click narrow results to add an additional sign or symptom. Also provides disease information as well as a disease comparison tool.
ECGs
Cardiovascular System Topics
Includes three animated series on the cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle, and blood pressure regulation. Note from Dr. Fitzovich on the cardiac action potential tutorial: “Be careful about control of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium release in cardiac cells because it is mediated by calcium influx, not depolarization of the SR. Also note that a ‘funny current’ due to a special sodium channel is responsible for the pacemaker function.”
ECG Quizzes Lessons 1-12
Includes a variety of quizzes on ECGs.
ECG Wave-Maven
This Harvard Web site allows you to quiz yourself, search cases by diagnosis, and browse cases with diagnoses.
EKG 12 Lead Placement Activity
Place the twelve EKG leads in the correct locations.
EKG 5 Lead Placement Activity
Place the five EKG leads in the correct locations.
EKG Arrhthymia Review
Compare normal and arrhythmic EKG strips.
Electrocardigram (ECG/EKG) Library
Provides examples of ECGs for numerous conditions.
Heart: Rhythm Disorders
Describes and animates the electrical events for normal sinus rhythm and atrial fibrillation.
HeartCenterOnline: Show All Animations
Choose the animation for the conduction system.
Introduction to ECG Interpretation
This is an EKG primer used by University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Shockwave animations
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
The Six Second ECG
Learn arrhythmias and then play a game in which you have to identify them. For quizzes that cover rhythms, ACLS algorithms, and drugs, click here. To view the pages properly in Internet Explorer 8, you must click on the button for “compatibility view.”
EPC
Also see the physical assessment and ECGs sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
EPC III
Case Studies: Abnormal Chest X-Rays (Lisa’s pick)
Includes 13 cases that include images, findings, patterns, and differential diagnoses.
HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Includes an overview of normal radiographic anatomy of the chest and 10 cases of common abnormalities.
Module One: Chest Radiology
This Harvard Web site includes an introduction, review of normal anatomy, 11 cases, and a normal CT.
Procedures Consult – Internal Medicine Modules (Lisa’s pick)
This subscription provides access to 42 internal medicine procedures with videos and tests. Users can choose to view a quick review or full details for each procedure. Procedures include defibrillation, general splinting techniques, local anesthesia, lumbar puncture, nasogastric intubation, and much more.
EPC IV
Association of Technical Opticians
There are numerous helpful pages within the “Categories” section, which is on the middle of the right side of the page. Click on “visual field” to see simulations of visual field defects. For other helpful simulations and materials, see also “simulators,” “surgery,” “pupil reflex,” “diagnostic tests,” and “anatomy.” For a simulation of vision as seen through various eye related conditions, click on “software,” and click on “previous entries” until you see the entry for “simulator software;” the simulation is a zip file that can be downloaded.
Basic Knot Tying and Suturing (Lisa’s pick)
This Boston University Medical Campus Web page includes step-by-step textual instructions, images, and videos for the one hand tie, two hand tie, instrument tie, simple interrupted stitch, and vertical mattress stitch. Only includes video for loading a needle holder. Only includes textual instructions and images for the basic square knot.
Radiological Terrorism: Just in Time Training for Hospital Clinicians, VHS tape or DVD
This is “a brief, 17-minute video covering key radiation principles and radiological procedures. Includes demonstrations on application of these principles and procedures in several patient care scenarios in an emergency services setting.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order copies of the training in VHS or DVD format, send an email message to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating VHS or DVD format, the number of copies, mailing address, and phone number. Please indicate “Radiological Just in Time Training” in your request.”
Radiological Terrorism: Medical Response to Mass Casualties CD-ROM
“The program is designed for physicians and nurses working in emergency services in hospital first receiver settings.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order a copy of the CD-ROM version, which is designed for Windows®2000 or XP, send your mailing address to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating the number of copies.”
Embryology
Development of Human Embyrology
See the section for newer animations based on the Carnegie Collection.
Embyrology Images Online
This companion website for books by William J. Larsen includes animations, updates, self-tests, and glossaries. Chapters cover the first week, second week, third week, fourth week, peripheral nervous system, embryonic folding and lungs, heart, vasculature, gastrointestinal tract, urogenital system, limbs, head and neck, central nervous system, integument, and fetal development. Not every chapter includes animations or updates.
Human Embryology Animations
This Indiana University Web site includes numerous developmental animations by system and body area.
Human Embyrology Chapters
This UNC School of Medicine website includes images, some animated, for body form, the musculoskeletal system, head & neck, ear, eye, nervous system, cardiovascular system, urogenital system, and the digestive & respiratory systems.
Multi-dimensional Human Embryo Atlas
Includes MRI and optical images of the embryo in Carnegie stages 13-23.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Embryology – Human Embryology Movies
Includes numerous animations of development for weeks 1-4 and some regions/systems. Includes sectional images here. Podcasts are available here.
The Visible Embryo
“The Visible Embryo is a visual guide through fetal development from fertilization through pregnancy to birth.” Click on the fetus to learn about fetal development; clicking on the curved line leads one to information on maternal symptoms.
Free Resources
ADA Technical Assistance CD-ROM
Receive a free CD-ROM of ADA guidelines from the U.S. government.
Altimate Medical
Free products include DVD and VHS videos on EasyStand products, an interactive CD-ROM, “Life After SCI” DVD, funding guide to standing technology, EasyStand Evolv brochure, and a Standing 101 educational package. Fill out the form on the website above to receive one or all of these items.
Amputee Coalition of America
Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Science-related DVDs, videotapes, CD-ROMs, and publications are available to scientists, educators, and librarians.
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
This quarterly guide for patients and families “brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website.”
Radiological Terrorism: Just in Time Training for Hospital Clinicians, VHS tape or DVD
This is “a brief, 17-minute video covering key radiation principles and radiological procedures. Includes demonstrations on application of these principles and procedures in several patient care scenarios in an emergency services setting.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order copies of the training in VHS or DVD format, send an email message to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating VHS or DVD format, the number of copies, mailing address, and phone number. Please indicate “Radiological Just in Time Training” in your request.”
Radiological Terrorism: Medical Response to Mass Casualties CD-ROM
“The program is designed for physicians and nurses working in emergency services in hospital first receiver settings.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order a copy of the CD-ROM version, which is designed for Windows®2000 or XP, send your mailing address to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating the number of copies.”
Rehab Management
To get to the form from the home page listed above, click on the link for “Free Subscription” on the left. The subscription form can be found at http://www.submag.com/sub/rm.
Stretching Exercise Program from Visual Health Information (VHI)
“Choose from 74 stretching exercises to create easy-to-read, professional looking stretching routines your clients and athletes will love! With this easy to use drag and drop program, you can create, customize and print a stretching routine in minutes.”
Stroke Connection Magazine
This page consists of the form that needs to be completed to get a free bimonthly subscription to this American Stroke Association magazine that is aimed at stroke survivors.
Tools RG
Tools RG provides a demo CD that includes sketches of exercises that can be used with patients. Click on “Request a Demo CD” on the right side of the page.
General Medical Resources
Consumer Health Resources
Altimate Medical
Free products include DVD and VHS videos on EasyStand products, an interactive CD-ROM, “Life After SCI” DVD, funding guide to standing technology, EasyStand Evolv brochure, and a Standing 101 educational package. Fill out the form on the website above to receive one or all of these items.
American Botanical Council
Includes informative articles, reviews, monographs, a magazine, and a newsletter on herbs. HerbalGram Online allows one to access the archives back to 1990 of the peer-reviewed journal of the American Botanical Council. HerbClip Online provides summaries and critical reviews of seminal articles on herbal medicine from popular and scientific literature around the world. Healthy Ingredients provides consumer information for herbs used in cosmetics, aromatherapy, and dietary supplements. Commission E Monographs includes 380 monographs of the Complete German Commission E Monographs, which has approved uses, dosage, contraindications, side effects, drug interactions, and other therapeutic information. Expanded Commission E Monographs updates and expands 107 of the Commission E Monographs. HerbMedPro allows one to access the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health; a simple search by common or Latin herb name lists results by evidence of efficacy, warnings, methods of preparation, formulas/blends, and activity as well as short summaries of clinical studies that permit users to make easy selections.
Amputee Coalition of America
Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.
Familydoctor.org
The American Academy of Family Physicians provides a medical dictionary, a drug guide, and information on health concerns and self-care.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes encyclopedias for medicine, cancer, alternative medicine, nutrition, diagnostic imaging, and diets. The search interface can appear in Spanish, French, and Portugese; you may change your language by clicking on “preferences” in the upper right corner. The search results can be mechanically translated into Chinese (simplified), French, German, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, and Spanish. To do this, choose a language in the pull-down menu within the item of interest and click “translate;” please note that mechanical translations are likely to contain errors. Includes Countries and their Cultures, the New Encyclopedia of Africa, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Also includes encyclopedias for arts, business, history, education, environment, law, religion, science, and social sciences. Must login to the LMU proxy to access. Tennessee residents may freely access this resource through their local public library; contact your local public library for details.
Health Information in Multiple Languages
Provides limited health information in 45 languages. All MedlinePlus consumer health resources may be translated into Spanish by clicking on the “espanol” link in the upper-right corner of each page – see health topics, drugs & supplements, encyclopedia, dictionary, news, and more.
MayoClinic.com
Provides information on conditions, diseases, health conditions, and prescription drugs. Provides healthy lifestyle planners for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, managing stress, and quitting smoking.
MEDLINEplus
MEDLINEplus provides access to information to help consumers answer health questions. It is a good place to start for consumers conducting research on diseases and prescription drugs. It brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the United States Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies, non-profit agencies, and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
This quarterly guide for patients and families “brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website.”
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Primarily provides information on anatomy, conditions, diseases, and mental health topics.
Other Links for Health Information in Multiples Languages:
24 Languages Project: Health Education Brochures in Multiple Languages
Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse
Health Information Translations
Health Translations Directory - can also conduct an advanced search
Japanese Family Health Program (University of Michigan)
NSW Health Department Multicultural Health Communication Service
Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
S.P.I.R.A.L. – Info in Asian Languages
SafeMedication.com
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists provides patient information on drugs and how to administer them.
Stroke Connection Magazine
This page consists of the form that needs to be completed to get a free bimonthly subscription to this American Stroke Association magazine that is aimed at stroke survivors.
YourHealthInformation.com
In addition to current news on conditions and diseases, this website provides a drug resource center, a source for investigating symptoms, and explanations for medical tests and procedures.
Current Events and News
Government Resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Provides publications, statistics, and information on diseases and other health topics.
ClinicalTrials.gov
Find out if a clinical trial exists for a topic of interest. Use the advanced search to limit to geographical area, type of study, age group, and more.
DIRLINE – Directory of Health Organizations
This is a searchable directory of health organizations.
Evidence-Based Practice
Includes numerous links and completed evidence-based clinical reports on cancer and blood disorders, kidney conditions, lung conditions, dietary supplements, and more.
Healthfinder.gov
Provides access to databases, medical dictionaries, a medical encyclopedia, health and medical journals, and more.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Includes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
National Institutes of Health
Provides links to all of the government health institutes. Of particular interest are the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) , the National Institute on Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) , the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) , and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Office of Rare Diseases
Provides access to current events and archived news articles, general information, genetics information, research and clinical trials, and research resources.
World Health Organization
Click here for a list of health topics for which information is provided. Includes international medical statistics here.
General Medical Information
Also see the government resources.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Includes downloadable PowerPoint presentations, evidence-based medicine tools, downloadable research articles, and information on courses and events.
eMedicine
Free registration allows one to view over 6,500 frequently-updated articles written on a wide variety of topics by over 10,000 contributors.
Statistics
CDC: Data and Statistics
This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.
HIT: Health Information Tennessee
Includes reports, tables, vital statistics, health facilities data, and county profiles.
National Center for Health Statistics
This statistical arm of the CDC provides vital statistics and statistics on disease classification, healthy people, minority health, injuries, and aging. Additional data is culled from data collection systems which include the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) , the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS).
Kinesiology
Arthrokinematics and Osteokinematics
Provides illustrations and definitions. Two animations show what happens during joint movements when the convex bone is fixed and when the concave bone is fixed.
Gait Disorder Project
Has short videos showing normal gait and the gait of patients with footdrop, hemiplegia, and Parkinson’s Disease.
Goniometry Website
Includes four categories of tests: upper extremities, lower extremities, spine, and TMJ. Has images showing the test position for measurements and provides textual information on the test position, normal range, goniometer alignment, and normal end feel.
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Kinesiology Flash Cards
Has 119 flash cards with definitions.
Kinesiology Lecture Topics
University of Oklahoma’s Dave Thompson provides lecture notes for numerous kinesiology topics.
Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System, book website
Requires free registration to access materials. Once you have logged in, click on “Neumann: Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System.” Next click on “Course Documents.” Then click on “Evolve Resources.” Includes study questions and lecture guides that can act as study aids. Also includes videos on arthrokinematics of the lower extremity, arthrokinematics of the upper extremity, normal versus abnormal glenohumeral arthrokinematics, and the kinesiology of flexing and extending the finger.
Muscles in Action
Shows videos which illustrate the meanings of elevation/depression, eversion/inversion, flexion/extension, circumduction, and more.
Weight Training, Exercise Instruction, and Kinesiology
Shows videos of articulations and exercises. Provides the origin, insert, and activation for the affected muscles. On the left side of the page, choose the links for body maps, the exercise and muscle directory, power training exercises, or cardio exercises.
Medical Education
Family Medicine
Family Medicine Digital Resources Library
A service of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, this Web site provides user-posted curricular materials and conference presentations, such as PowerPoint lectures, syllabi, video and audio recordings, learning modules, recommended Web sites, and more. You can search the collection by keyword and filter results by audience, type of learner, type of material, and more.
General Medical Education Resources
A-OPTIC.org
Everyone with an LMU email account can register for free and use the collection of resources from the Appalachian Postgraduate Training Institute Consortium (A-OPTIC). Click “Residency Opportunities” for links to opportunities within the consortia. Within “Curriculum Resources,” click on “Administration of Interns & Residents” to find a video on the COMLEX PE. Has a section for “Interns and Residents Required Videos.” A match section is in the works. See listing in the General Medical Education Resources section above for more information on A-OPTIC.org’s content.
Health Education Assets Digital Library (HEAL)
A service of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), this collection includes audio files, case studies, exams, exercises, images, lectures, tutorials, videos, and virtual patients. Use the advanced search to conduct keyword searches and limit to type of resource, audience, and more.
MedEd Portal
MedEdPORTAL is a portal for peer-reviewed teaching resources. It includes “tutorials, virtual patients, cases, lab manuals, assessment instruments, and faculty development materials.” Available free to the general public, it “covers the continuum of medical education (i.e. undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education)” and “contains descriptive information about published resources and indicates how these materials may be accessed or obtained.”
Graduate Medical Education Opportunities
Applying
ERAS – The Electronic Residency Application Service
This service transmits application materials to residency program directors. Provides a list of participating specialties and programs which links to most of the programs’ Web sites.
Roadmap to Residency: From Application to the Match and Beyond, 2nd edition
Covers allopathic and osteopathic residency programs. Sections include information on being a candidate, specialty choice, residency program selection criteria, matching processes, preparing to apply, applying, visiting residency training programs, after the program visit, residency application outcomes, the transition from medical school to residency, a bibliography, and a webliography.
Strolling Through the Match, 2008-2009
This comprehensive guide includes a general residency application time line and checklist and an introduction to the Electronic Residency Application Service as well as information on choosing a specialty, preparation, selecting a program, the interview process, the match, and resources.
Matching
National Matching Servies Inc. – AOA Intern/Resident Registration Program
This matching program places students into U.S. osteopathic training positions for OGME-1, the first postdoctoral year of training.
National Resident Matching Program
This is a private, not-for-profit corporation that “provides an impartial venue for matching applicants’ and programs’ preferences for each other consistency.” Also includes the Specialties Matching Service (SMS) for advanced residency and fellowship positions.
Residency Matching Program for Urology
Provides information and matching for urology.
San Francisco Matching Program
This matching program is for post graduate training in the following specialties: child neurology, neurodevelopmental disabilities, neurotology, opthalmology, orthopaedic foot and ankle, orthopaedic sports medicine, orthopaedic trauma, plastic surgery, and spine surgery.
Opportunities
A-OPTIC.org
Everyone with an LMU email account can register for free and use the collection of resources from the Appalachian Postgraduate Training Institute Consortium (A-OPTIC). Click “Residency Opportunities” for links to opportunities within the consortia. Within “Curriculum Resources,” click on “Administration of Interns & Residents” to find a video on the COMLEX PE. Has a section for “Interns and Residents Required Videos.” A match section is in the works. See listing in the General Medical Education Resources section above for more information on A-OPTIC.org’s content.
CareerMD
Find residencies, fellowships, and employment opportunities.
FindAResident
Supplements the ERAS and is “ideal for finding unfilled positions – especially if you experienced an unsuccessful match through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) or Scramble.”
FREIDA Online
Provided by the AMA, this is a searchable database of over 8,200 graduate medical education programs. It also includes 200 combined specialty programs. Includes contact information and Web address for each program.
Opportunities.osteopathic.org
Provided by the AOA, this is a searchable database of osteopathic medical internships and residencies. Each entry includes contact information and information on educational features, program benefits, and salary and vacation. Click on resources for links to the National Matching Service, student and postdoctoral application forms, and sites for information for students and on postdoctoral training.
ResidentSwap.org
Lists vacant residencies posted by residency programs and “also anonymously lists spots currently filled by residents who would like to swap location or specialty with another resident.”
International Resources
CIA World Fact Book
Provides information on geography, people, government, economy, transportation, military, life expectancy, infant mortality, language, and more.
CountryWatch
The CountryWatch database provides a variety of facts on over 192 countries, from basic information such as statistics and important persons, to maps and currency converters, to encyclopedic resources on history and economy. Must login to the LMU proxy to access.
EthnoMed
Includes cultural profiles, medical issues, and other information for various cultures (Chinese, Ethiopian, Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese, and more).
FreeForAll: Free Articles to Those in Need
This is a group of libraries whose provide underserved nations with free health science journal articles.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes encyclopedias for medicine, cancer, alternative medicine, nutrition, diagnostic imaging, and diets. The search interface can appear in Spanish, French, and Portugese; you may change your language by clicking on “preferences” in the upper right corner. The search results can be mechanically translated into Chinese (simplified), French, German, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, and Spanish. To do this, choose a language in the pull-down menu within the item of interest and click “translate;” please note that mechanical translations are likely to contain errors. Includes Countries and their Cultures, the New Encyclopedia of Africa, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Also includes encyclopedias for arts, business, history, education, environment, law, religion, science, and social sciences. Must login to the LMU proxy to access. Tennessee residents may freely access this resource through their local public library; contact your local public library for details.
Health Information in Multiple Languages
Provides limited health information in 45 languages. All MedlinePlus consumer health resources may be translated into Spanish by clicking on the “espanol” link in the upper-right corner of each page – see health topics, drugs & supplements, encyclopedia, dictionary, news, and more.
National Library of Medicine Resources for the Mobile Clinician
Allows one to search PubMed using standard searches, PICO searches, natural languages searches, a slider interface, and other methods. Allows one to search for medical images. Also allows one to conduct searches in multiple languages. Feel free to leave a comment on this resource or view comments here.
Other Links for Health Information in Multiples Languages:
24 Languages Project: Health Education Brochures in Multiple Languages
Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse
Health Information Translations
Health Translations Directory - can also conduct an advanced search
Japanese Family Health Program (University of Michigan)
NSW Health Department Multicultural Health Communication Service
Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
S.P.I.R.A.L. – Info in Asian Languages
World Health Organization – Countries
Provides an overview of the country and information on outbreaks and crises, mortality and burden of disease, health service coverage, risk factors, and health systems.
LMU Resources
Medical Law
Federal Law
Congressional Acts (U.S. Code) and Current Legislation (Bills)
U.S. Supreme and Federal Court Opinions
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/index.html
Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations and other Federal Publications
State Law
Tennessee General Assembly – Public Acts and Statutes and Current Bills
Federal and State Agencies
General Directory of Federal Agencies
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Government Accounting Office
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office for Civil Rights (HIPAA)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Tennessee Department of Health
Healthcare Law Search Engines
Medical Terminology
Glossary of Osteopathic Terminology User Guide
This glossary, which is updated twice a year, presents “important and often used words, terms, and phrases of the osteopathic profession.”
mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary
Contains over 140,000 definitions with internal links for further clarification of definitions.
Official Osteopathic Thesaurus
The Authorized Osteopathic Thesaurus was developed in 2004 by the Educational Council of Osteopathic Principles of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and staff from the Gibson D. Lewis Library at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Funding for the thesaurus editor position was contributed by the American Osteopathic Association.
Web Anatomy: Self Tests for Medical Terminology
Includes three quizzes on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Most terms cover the cardiovascular system.
Molecular Fundamentals of Medicine
Cells
Cell Motility, Myosin, and Extravasation
The eight-minute-long video entitled “Inner Life” shows cell motility. Page also includes a link to a detailed animated tutorial on myosin that focuses on myosin 2 and myosin 5 and a link to an animated tutorial on rolling neutrophils, integrin activation, transendothelial migration, and extravasation in leukocytes (neutrophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes).
CELLS alive!
Interactive exercises allow you to examine cell structures, see the stages of mitosis, and learn about the immune system, the cell cycle, cell structure and function, and microbes.
Cellular transport animations
Following an overview, this website provides annotated animations on membranes, diffusion/osmosis, passive transport, and active transport.
DNA replication animation
This detailed animation includes audio and subtitles.
DNA workshop activity
In this activity, you must match bases to make two new DNA strands, match DNA and RNA bases to make a mRNA strand, and match tRNA anticodons to mRNA codons. Requires Adobe Shockwave to run properly.
Protein synthesis animation
Provides detailed, annotated animations on protein synthesis.
Heredity
Sex-linked inheritance problem set
Click on the Tutorial button for explanations on how to solve the problems.
Histology
Blue Histology
Includes multiple-choice quizzes (click MCQ Quiz), difficult non-multiple-choice quizzes (click SAQ Quiz), notes with images (click Notes), large histology images (click Large Images), and a virtual microscope (click VScope).
JayDoc HistoWeb
This is a large repository of histology images.
LUMEN Histology
Includes numerous slides. For quizzes, click on the “practical” links.
Overlayer from Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Academic Computing Services
If you can’t see the image on the left, follow the instructions for Windows or MacIntosh users. Once you can see the image, click on it to run Overlayer. It includes numerous histology and pathology images. Click to the left of the histology or pathology folder to see the subfolders and then click on a subfolder to see the list of available images for that subfolder.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
Microbiology
Malaria: Cooperation among Parasite, Vector, and Host
Describes and animates the life cycle of the malaria parasite.
Microbiology Resources on the Internet, All the Virology on the WWW – Video Library
Includes actual videos of macrophage phagocytosis, how bacteria swim, how bacteria divide and grow, and HIV replication.
Microbiology: Principles and Explorations
Includes animations, chapter overviews, and practice quizzes. The table of contents is listed here.
Phagocytosis and Bacterial Pathogens: Flash Animations
Includes animations of normal phagocytosis by a macrophage, a macrophage being infected by yersinia pestis, and a macrophage being infected by mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Photomicrographs
Includes photomicrographs of algae, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi.
Science Animations
Includes links for animations on the e. coli infection mechanism, viral infection, herpes infection, and more.
Scientific Stock Photography
Includes “over 1,500 light microscopy images and electron microscopy images (colorized and black & white)” of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and other organisms.
The Grapes of Staph Home Page
The detailed lecture guides include photomicrographs and animations.
Recommended Textbook
Medical Microbiology, 4th edition, edited by Samuel Baron, 1996
This online textbook was edited by Samuel Baron of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Urinalysis
Urinalysis: A Comprehensive Review
This article from American Family Physician includes numerous tables that list pathological conditions associated with abnormal findings. Includes illustrations of epithelial cells, renal tubule cells, casts, and crystals.
Neuroscience
Association of Technical Opticians
There are numerous helpful pages within the “Categories” section, which is on the middle of the right side of the page. Click on “visual field” to see simulations of visual field defects. For other helpful simulations and materials, see also “simulators,” “surgery,” “pupil reflex,” “diagnostic tests,” and “anatomy.” For a simulation of vision as seen through various eye related conditions, click on “software,” and click on “previous entries” until you see the entry for “simulator software;” the simulation is a zip file that can be downloaded.
Headache Interactive on-line
Includes interactive modules for a migraine headache, a tension-type headache, a cluster headache, and trigeminal neuralgia.
Interactive Neurology
Includes eleven interactive neurology cases.
Neuronal Migration Disorders Information Page
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke created this Web page.
Patient with Broca’s aphasia
Note from Dr. Nielsen: This patient understands what is being said to him and has meaningful, brief, and agrammatical speech.
Patient with Wernicke’s aphasia
Note from Dr. Nielsen: note that this patient understands the question, “How many years were you a dentist?” but does not appear to understand the question, “Where do you live?”
Also see the nervous system links within the anatomy and physiology sections.
YouTube videos chosen by Dr. Nielsen
Dr. Nielsen has divided these videos into subjects: structure and function of neurons and glia, clinical and pathological, brain function, statistics, and more.
Pathophysiology
Association of Technical Opticians
There are numerous helpful pages within the “Categories” section, which is on the middle of the right side of the page. Click on “visual field” to see simulations of visual field defects. For other helpful simulations and materials, see also “simulators,” “surgery,” “pupil reflex,” “diagnostic tests,” and “anatomy.” For a simulation of vision as seen through various eye related conditions, click on “software,” and click on “previous entries” until you see the entry for “simulator software;” the simulation is a zip file that can be downloaded.
Case Studies: Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Includes 13 cases that include images, findings, patterns, and differential diagnoses.
Includes numerous chest x-rays that are organized by pathology, diseases, and signs.
Epocrates Online
One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes a pill identifier and helpful tables.
Eye Simulation Application
See what happens when to eye movement and pupil dilation when nerves and muscles are not working.
HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Includes an overview of normal radiographic anatomy of the chest and 10 cases of common abnormalities.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
Module One: Chest Radiology
This Harvard Web site includes an introduction, review of normal anatomy, 11 cases, and a normal CT.
Office of Rare Diseases
Provides access to current events and archived news articles, general information, genetics information, research and clinical trials, and research resources.
Overlayer from Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Academic Computing Services
If you can’t see the image on the left, follow the instructions for Windows or MacIntosh users. Once you can see the image, click on it to run Overlayer. It includes numerous histology and pathology images. Click to the left of the histology or pathology folder to see the subfolders and then click on a subfolder to see the list of available images for that subfolder.
SonoWorld: Cases
Includes pathological ultrasonography images for the abdomen, hepatobiliary system, spleen, gastrointestinal system, appendix, peritoneal cavity, mesentry and omentum, adult renal system, and the biliary system.
Teaching Materials for Pathology
This Stony Brook Medical Center Web site includes a case of the week, neuropathology images, and general pathology images. Also includes normal brain microscopy.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Seventeenth edition
Coverage of illnesses and conditions varies in depth and length, with the more detailed entries providing information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, etiology and pathogenesis, and more.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
UpToDate
This is an evidence-based resource with over 70,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text to allow practitioners to keep current with new clinical developments, be more confident in diagnosis and treatment decisions and answer clinical questions more efficiently. It offers comprehensive information in the specialties of adult primary care and internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, critical care, endocrinology and diabetes, family medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology, gynecology, hematology, infectious diseases, nephrology and hypertension, obstetrics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, rheumatology, sleep medicine and women’s health.
Patient Information
Consumer Health Resources
Altimate Medical
Free products include DVD and VHS videos on EasyStand products, an interactive CD-ROM, “Life After SCI” DVD, funding guide to standing technology, EasyStand Evolv brochure, and a Standing 101 educational package. Fill out the form on the website above to receive one or all of these items.
American Botanical Council
Includes informative articles, reviews, monographs, a magazine, and a newsletter on herbs. HerbalGram Online allows one to access the archives back to 1990 of the peer-reviewed journal of the American Botanical Council. HerbClip Online provides summaries and critical reviews of seminal articles on herbal medicine from popular and scientific literature around the world. Healthy Ingredients provides consumer information for herbs used in cosmetics, aromatherapy, and dietary supplements. Commission E Monographs includes 380 monographs of the Complete German Commission E Monographs, which has approved uses, dosage, contraindications, side effects, drug interactions, and other therapeutic information. Expanded Commission E Monographs updates and expands 107 of the Commission E Monographs. HerbMedPro allows one to access the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health; a simple search by common or Latin herb name lists results by evidence of efficacy, warnings, methods of preparation, formulas/blends, and activity as well as short summaries of clinical studies that permit users to make easy selections.
Amputee Coalition of America
Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.
Familydoctor.org
The American Academy of Family Physicians provides a medical dictionary, a drug guide, and information on health concerns and self-care.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes encyclopedias for medicine, cancer, alternative medicine, nutrition, diagnostic imaging, and diets. The search interface can appear in Spanish, French, and Portugese; you may change your language by clicking on “preferences” in the upper right corner. The search results can be mechanically translated into Chinese (simplified), French, German, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, and Spanish. To do this, choose a language in the pull-down menu within the item of interest and click “translate;” please note that mechanical translations are likely to contain errors. Includes Countries and their Cultures, the New Encyclopedia of Africa, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Also includes encyclopedias for arts, business, history, education, environment, law, religion, science, and social sciences. Must login to the LMU proxy to access. Tennessee residents may freely access this resource through their local public library; contact your local public library for details.
Health Information in Multiple Languages
Provides limited health information in 45 languages. All MedlinePlus consumer health resources may be translated into Spanish by clicking on the “espanol” link in the upper-right corner of each page – see health topics, drugs & supplements, encyclopedia, dictionary, news, and more.
MayoClinic.com
Provides information on conditions, diseases, health conditions, and prescription drugs. Provides healthy lifestyle planners for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, managing stress, and quitting smoking.
MEDLINEplus
MEDLINEplus provides access to information to help consumers answer health questions. It is a good place to start for consumers conducting research on diseases and prescription drugs. It brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the United States Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies, non-profit agencies, and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
This quarterly guide for patients and families “brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website.”
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Primarily provides information on anatomy, conditions, diseases, and mental health topics.
Other Links for Health Information in Multiples Languages:
24 Languages Project: Health Education Brochures in Multiple Languages
Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse
Health Information Translations
Health Translations Directory - can also conduct an advanced search
Japanese Family Health Program (University of Michigan)
NSW Health Department Multicultural Health Communication Service
Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
S.P.I.R.A.L. – Info in Asian Languages
SafeMedication.com
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists provides patient information on drugs and how to administer them.
Stroke Connection Magazine
This page consists of the form that needs to be completed to get a free bimonthly subscription to this American Stroke Association magazine that is aimed at stroke survivors.
YourHealthInformation.com
In addition to current news on conditions and diseases, this website provides a drug resource center, a source for investigating symptoms, and explanations for medical tests and procedures.
Health Literacy
Health Literacy Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
The overview section provides a video, In Plain Language (15 minutes), and a slide presentation. The Web site includes reports, patient materials, and bibliographies. Also includes information on how to create and assess print materials.
Health Literacy Videos Online
Includes links to two videos created by the AMA Foundation: “Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand” (23 minutes) and “Low Health Literacy: You Can’t Tell by Looking” (18 minutes).
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
One may read the entire book online by clicking on the book cover and then clicking “read this book online, free!”
Misperceptions of Medical Understanding in Low-Literacy Patients: Implications for Cancer Prevention
One may read the entire book online and/or view a short video on the report.
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Boston, Massachusetts
To see relevant materials, conduct a search for health literacy using the Google NCSALL Site Search.
Smith on Social Marketing: 90 Million Americans Need Health Literacy
This brief article provides tips for improving health literacy.
Pediatrics
Includes 31 interactive virtual patient cases for third-year medical students to use during their pediatric clerkship. The cases are designed to cover all of the core content of the curriculum of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP).
PediatricEducation.org
Aimed at residents and fellows, this Web site created by two MDs lets view pediatric cases by disease, specialty, age, and date. Also provides numerous helpful links.
PedsCases.com: Pediatrics for Medical Students
The goal of this site created by two medical students and a faculty member is to create a “comprehensive database of pediatric cases and pediatric questions.”
Pharmacology
About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
This information resource is provided by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Service.
American Botanical Council
Includes informative articles, reviews, monographs, a magazine, and a newsletter on herbs. HerbalGram Online allows one to access the archives back to 1990 of the peer-reviewed journal of the American Botanical Council. HerbClip Online provides summaries and critical reviews of seminal articles on herbal medicine from popular and scientific literature around the world. Healthy Ingredients provides consumer information for herbs used in cosmetics, aromatherapy, and dietary supplements. Commission E Monographs includes 380 monographs of the Complete German Commission E Monographs, which has approved uses, dosage, contraindications, side effects, drug interactions, and other therapeutic information. Expanded Commission E Monographs updates and expands 107 of the Commission E Monographs. HerbMedPro allows one to access the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health; a simple search by common or Latin herb name lists results by evidence of efficacy, warnings, methods of preparation, formulas/blends, and activity as well as short summaries of clinical studies that permit users to make easy selections.
ASHP Drug Product Shortages Management Resource Center
“The purpose of this resource center is to provide pharmacists and others responsible for patient care and for drug product acquisition and inventory management with appropriate information, sources of information, and guidance about managing drug product shortage” situations.
Epocrates Online
One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes a pill identifier and helpful tables.
Food and Drug Information: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Check here for the latest alerts.
Lexi-Comp ONLINE
Lexi-Comp ONLINE includes non-biased information on drugs and natural products as well as medical calculations, a drug ID component, an interactions component, I.V. compatibility information, FDA special alerts, updates on medical safety issues, and more.
Medical Calculations Tutorial
Click on “Start the MedCal Tutorial Without Credit” to avoid registering and logging in. Three modules cover fractions, decimels, liquid volume conversions, dosage calculations, medication administration, intravenous therapy, and more.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
PDR.net
Registration is required for membership, and membership is free to U.S.-based medical students and residents as well as MDs, DOs, NPs, and PAs in full-time patient practice. Provides access to PDR eBooks, PDR’s concise drug information, full FDA-approved product labeling, a multi-drug interaction checker,
STAT!Ref Medical
STAT!Ref Medical provides access to 35 electronic medical books, including several books that contain detailed drug information.
Physical Assessment
Auscultation
The Auscultation Assistant
Includes audio files of heart murmurs and breathing sounds.
The R.A.L.E. Repository
Click on “Repository” to read an introduction or listen to sounds: normal (vesicular, tracheal, bronchial, and bronchovesicular), wheezes (3), crackles (3), and other sounds (grunting, stridor, and squawk).
Virtual Stethoscope
To hear normal heart sounds, click on “What’s S1 and S2?” To hear audio files of heart murmurs, normal breathing sounds, crackles, wheezes, and emphysema, choose “Virtual Stethoscope” within the upper pull-down menu on the left and then choose “Cardiovascular” or “Respiratory” within the lower pull-down menu on the left. For quizzes and additional tutorials and information, choose “Physical Exam,” “Pathophysiology,” or “Quizzes” within the upper pull-down menu.
Physical Examination
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Includes physical examination videos of systems, body regions, and patients by age.
Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant
Includes videos of abdomen exam, cardiovascular exam, eye exam, HEENT exam, neurologic exam, vital signs, chest exam, musculoskeletal exam.
Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant: A Pediatric Assistant
Has videos for four developmental stages: infant (newborn to 12 months), toddler (1 year to 4 years), child (4 years to 10 years), and adolescent (10 years to 18 years).
Physiology
Cardiovascular System
Within athletic training, kinesiology, and nursing also see the section for blood. Within medical technology, also see the section for hematology. Within osteopathic medicine, also see the section for hematology within the molecular fundamentals of medicine section.
Anatomy of the Heart
Construct a heart circulation model and assemble a human heart.
Cardiovascular Physiology Tutorial
Answer questions on cardiac physiology and see how chemical solutions affect heart function.
Cardiovascular System Topics
Includes three animated series on the cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle, and blood pressure regulation. Note from Dr. Fitzovich on the cardiac action potential tutorial: “Be careful about control of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium release in cardiac cells because it is mediated by calcium influx, not depolarization of the SR. Also note that a ‘funny current’ due to a special sodium channel is responsible for the pacemaker function.”
HeartScape
Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additonal quizzes, please click here.
Learn Your Arteries
Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.
Map of the Human Heart
Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.
Shockwave animations
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
Eyes
Association of Technical Opticians
There are numerous helpful pages within the “Categories” section, which is on the middle of the right side of the page. Click on “visual field” to see simulations of visual field defects. For other helpful simulations and materials, see also “simulators,” “surgery,” “pupil reflex,” “diagnostic tests,” and “anatomy.” For a simulation of vision as seen through various eye related conditions, click on “software,” and click on “previous entries” until you see the entry for “simulator software;” the simulation is a zip file that can be downloaded.
Eye Simulation Application
See what happens when to eye movement and pupil dilation when nerves and muscles are not working.
General A&P Resources
Anatomy and Physiology I Animations: Movies and Interactive Tutorial Links
Includes links for basic neurons/synapses, the endocrine system, the muscular system, cell transport, DNA replication, and more.
AnatQuest
One section provides “cut-away views of the front, side and top of the entire male body.” The other section labels anatomic objects in the male chest area.
BBC – Human Body and Mind
Play drag-and-drop games to test your abilities to correctly place items in the muscular and skeletal system. Quiz yourself on nervous system connections and the senses. Learn interesting facts about physiology.
Get Body Smart
Includes exceptional interactive tutorials on the human skeletal system, muscular system, muscle tissue physiology, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology. One may turn labels off to quiz oneself on anatomy.
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.
HHMI’s BioInteractive
Includes animations on hearing, heart circulation, and invasions of bacteria and viruses. Includes modules on obesity, cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular, DNA, RNA, biological clocks, infectious diseases, immunology, and genomics and chemical genetics.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources
This University of Michigan Web site includes dissection videos, objectives (see list of sessions), clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, learning games (crossword puzzles, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Anatomy Jeopardy); tutorials, some of which include quizzes (see learning modules); practice quizzes, labeled models that can be rotated (see QuickTime VR Movies), radiology images, surface anatomy (good for the anatomy fashion show), and surgical videos.
Primal Anatomy
Includes interactive modules with text for the head and neck, axilla, spine, thorax & abdomen, knee, hip, hand, pelvis & perineum, and foot. Also includes a study guide and test bank. Also includes essential regional anatomy, acupuncture anatomy, and pilates anatomy. Also includes surgery videos and animations for the axilla, knee, knee arthroplasty, hip arthroplasty, and podiatric medicine.
The Anatomy Lesson
Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Hematology
Blood
This excerpt from John W. Kimball’s online biology textbook covers the blood’s function, cells, and cell fragments.
Blood Typing Game
“In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion. Are you able to do that? If not, maybe you should read the introduction to blood typing before you start; otherwise you will put the patients’ lives in danger!”
Bloodline Image Atlas
“This fully searchable directory features more than 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies.” One can use a categorical index or keyword search to access the images.
Get Body Smart’s Blood and Blood Cell Quizzes
Includes visual quizzes for hematocrit, total RBC count, blood typing, WBC differential count, and clotting (coagulation) time.
Hemosurf – Demo
View normal and abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
Immune System
Host Defense
Includes drag-and-drop quizzes on the components of the specific and nonspecific host defense system.
Muscular System
Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.
Facial Muscle Action Illustrated
In the drawing, click on a muscle to see videos of its action(s) and read information about it.
Get Body Smart Muscle Tissue Physiology
Tutorials cover the location and organization of muscle fibers, nerve supply to muscle fibers, and contraction of muscle fibers. Quizzes cover general characteristics of muscle fibers and internal organization of muscle fibers.
Learn Your Muscles
For each muscle, it provides an image that highlights the muscle and provides information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order or by region.
Muscle Atlas – Upper Extremities and Lower Extremities
Upper extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas/
Lower extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas2/
Depicts each muscle and gives information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order.
Muscle contraction animations:
Purdue North Central
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Nervous System
3-D Brain Anatomy
Learn the locations and functions of major brain sections on this 3-D model that you can rotate and zoom within. You can also explore the brain by area or function.
Animations
Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.
Cranial Nerves – Introduction
Provides an anatomical diagram of the cranial nerves, lists their functions, and allows you to take quizzes on the information. Also has a quiz on cranial nerve trivia.
Cranial Parasympathetics
Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.
Learn Your Cutaneous Innervation
Has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular nerves.
Learn Your Nerves
Click on drawings to learn the names, spinal cord segment(s), and muscular innervation(s) of individual nerves for the cranial nerves, cervical plexus, brachial plexus, and lumbosacral plexus.
Pathway Quizzes in Neuroanatomy
Includes eighteen quizzes for pathways in the anterolateral system, dorsal column, visual system, and more.
Synaptic Transmission
Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.
The 12 Cranial Nerves
This interactive tutorial includes animations to show what the cranial nerves control.
The Brain: Anatomy and Function
Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Skeletal System
Skeletal System
Provides detailed quizzes on labeling bones and landmarks. Write down your answers and compare them to the correct answers.
Spine: Normal Anatomy
Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.
The Bone Box
Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.
The eSkeletons Project
Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.
The Skull Practical Exam
Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.
Tissues
Animal Tissues
Includes images and information on epithelial, muscle, connective, nerve, and blood tissues.
Upper Extremities
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Inside the Shoulder Joint
Illustrates and describes anatomical components of the shoulder joint.
Learn the Brachial Plexus in Five Minutes or Less
Shows how to draw a diagram of the brachial plexus.
Urinary System
Interactive Kidney Illustration
Includes simplistic illustrations and descriptions of anatomical components of the kidney.
Nephron Function
Click on the circles beside proximal tubule, loop of Henle, distal tubule & collecting duct, and overview. Register for free with MedEd Portal to view this and other resources.
Physiology of the Kidney
This University of Kansas School of Medicine Web site includes detailed objectives, numerous figures, and quizzes.
Psychiatry
Janssen’s MINDSTORM
“This experience simulates a severe episode of auditory and visual hallucinations.”
Spot the Fake Smile
Twenty videos of smiles test you on whether you can spot if a smile is genuine or fake.
Statistics
CDC: Data and Statistics
This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.
HIT: Health Information Tennessee
Includes reports, tables, vital statistics, health facilities data, and county profiles.
HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook
Associate Professor at Rice, David Lane, created this online textbook and online collection of links to other helpful sources.
Keith Bower’s Six Sigma Podcast
These podcasts cover moving range charts, p-values, equivalence tests, Gosset’s t-Test, and more.
National Center for Health Statistics
This statistical arm of the CDC provides vital statistics and statistics on disease classification, healthy people, minority health, injuries, and aging. Additional data is culled from data collection systems which include the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) , the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS).
YouTube videos chosen by Dr. Nielsen
Dr. Nielsen has divided these videos into subjects: structure and function of neurons and glia, clinical and pathological, brain function, statistics, and more.
Surgery
Amputation videos by level
Provides videos and surgical outlines for knee disarticulation, partial calcanectomy, transfemoral amputation, transtibial amputation, and transmetatarsal amputation.
Basic Knot Tying and Suturing
This Boston University Medical Campus Web page includes step-by-step textual instructions, images, and videos for the one hand tie, two hand tie, instrument tie, simple interrupted stitch, and vertical mattress stitch. Only includes video for loading a needle holder. Only includes textual instructions and images for the basic square knot.
Edheads
Click on “Virtual Knee Surgery,” “Virtual Hip Replacement,” “Virtual Hip Resurfacing,” or “Deep Brain Stimulation” to experience walk-through tutorials for these surgeries. After clicking on “Virtual Knee Surgery,” click on “Choose the Prosthetic” for an additional tutorial in which you diagnose 5 different knee replacement patients and answer questions.
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JB&JS)
Includes freely-available streaming surgery videos for the shoulder, elbow/arm, hip, knee, spine, foot/ankle, and hand/wrist.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources – see link for surgical videos on the bottom left; includes surgical videos for the thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and head & neck.
Primal Anatomy
Includes interactive modules with text for the head and neck, axilla, spine, thorax & abdomen, knee, hip, hand, pelvis & perineum, and foot. Also includes a study guide and test bank. Also includes essential regional anatomy, acupuncture anatomy, and pilates anatomy. Also includes surgery videos and animations for the axilla, knee, knee arthroplasty, hip arthroplasty, and podiatric medicine.
The Global Library of Women’s Medicine
Free registration allows one access to videos of basic techniques, laboratory tests, and surgical procedures and techniques. Also includes book chapters, atlases, and patient information.
Web Initiative for Surgical Education (WISE-MD)
You must register using your LMU email address and create a password. You must verify your email address by clicking on a link in an email you will receive upon registering. The login for CLIPP also works for Web Initiative for Surgical Education (WISE-MD). Includes 10 interactive modules for third-year medical students to use during their surgery clerkship. More modules are planned. Current modules cover abdominal aortic aneurysms, adrenal adenoma, anorectal disease, appendicitis, carotid stenosis, cholecystitis, colon cancer, hernia, skin cancer, and trauma resuscitation. WISE-MD was jointly developed by the Department of Surgery and the Division of Educational Informatics at NYU in furtherance of this mission with the support of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the Association for Surgical Education (ASE).
WeBSurg World Electronic Book of Surgery
Free registration allows one to view surgical intervention videos, operative technique chapters, lectures, experts’ interviews, and debates between experts.
Women’s Health
Electronic Fetal Monitoring
This free online tutorial for CME credit includes a self-guided tutorial, practice quizzes, case scenarios, videos of fetal tracings, and more.
The Global Library of Women’s Medicine
Free registration allows one access to videos of basic techniques, laboratory tests, and surgical procedures and techniques. Also includes book chapters, atlases, and patient information.