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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.”

Created by Frank G. Yanowitz, Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, this website includes a variety of quizzes on ECGs. Website also includes an ECG outline, an image index, an American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) clinical competence section, a long pdf outline, and a feedback form.

This Harvard Web site allows you to quiz yourself, search cases by diagnosis, and browse cases with diagnoses.

Place the twelve EKG leads in the correct locations.

Place the five EKG leads in the correct locations.

Provides examples of ECGs for numerous conditions.

Describes and animates the electrical events for normal sinus rhythm and atrial fibrillation.

University of Wisconsin Medical School’s primer provides an introduction to ECG interpretation; six clinical cases with questions; tutorials for axis, basic concepts, fascicular block, hypertrophy, infarct, rate, and rhythm; a summary of ECG interpretation, guidelines for ECG interpretation, and a form for feedback.

Includes tutorials for heart sounds, lung sounds, EKGs, abdominal sounds, and blood pressure. Also includes cases for carotid artery bruit and pulmonary problem solving. Also includes short courses that provide auscultation training by repetition.

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.

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.”

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.

This Indiana University Web site includes numerous developmental animations by system and body area.

Includes numerous animations of development for weeks 1-4 and some regions/systems. Includes sectional images here. Podcasts are available here.

“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.

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.

One may read the entire book online by clicking on “read online for free.” One may also download the report as a pdf file by clicking “download the report.”

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.

Shows videos which illustrate the meanings of elevation/depression, eversion/inversion, flexion/extension, circumduction, and more.

This website’s authors are professors for the University of Utah School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. It includes videos and quizzes for mental status exam, cranial nerve exam, coordination exam, sensory exam, motor exam, gait exam, and neurological cases. Each section covers anatomy, normal exam, abnormal examples, a quiz, and media resources. You must have your pop-up blocker disabled in your Internet browser to view the videos and quizzes. This website must be viewed in its entirety by LMU-DCOM osteopathic medical students completing their required behavioral health and neuropsychiatry rotation; it has been added to the rotation documents section of Blackboard for the rotation.

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.

Includes physical examination videos of systems, body regions, patients by age as well as OSCE Clinical Skills videos.

Includes videos of abdomen exam, cardiovascular exam, eye exam, HEENT exam, neurologic exam, vital signs, chest exam, musculoskeletal exam.

The American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) produces this peer-reviewed, non-commercial, patient-centered website that includes information on lab tests and conditions. Reference ranges are not provided for the majority of tests.

Allows you to combine multiple symptoms to determine differential diagnoses.

Provides differential diagnoses based on symptoms. Includes questions about each symptom.

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Includes interactive modules for a migraine headache, a tension-type headache, a cluster headache, and trigeminal neuralgia.

Includes eleven interactive neurology cases.

To supplement the textbook by the same name, includes videos for examinations of mental status, cranial nerve function, reflexes, coordination, gait, and senses.

This website’s authors are professors for the University of Utah School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. It includes videos and quizzes for mental status exam, cranial nerve exam, coordination exam, sensory exam, motor exam, gait exam, and neurological cases. Each section covers anatomy, normal exam, abnormal examples, a quiz, and media resources. You must have your pop-up blocker disabled in your Internet browser to view the videos and quizzes. This website must be viewed in its entirety by LMU-DCOM osteopathic medical students completing their required behavioral health and neuropsychiatry rotation; it has been added to the rotation documents section of Blackboard for the rotation.

This patient understands what is being said to him and has meaningful, brief, and agrammatical speech.

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?”

This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.

The gateway for demographics, statistics, and information on health care in Tennessee.

Associate Professor at Rice, David Lane, created this online textbook and online collection of links to other helpful sources.

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).

Includes numerous chest x-rays that are organized by pathology, diseases, and signs.

One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes helpful tables.

This University of Virginia School of Medicine website includes modules for chest radiology, ICU chest films, hi-resolution chest CT, CT pulmonary angiography, cardiac MR, radionuclide localization, gastrointestinal radiology, genitourinary radiology, emergency body CT, emergency ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, imaging of the cervical spine, skeletal trauma, head CT, the basics of PETCT, pediatric radiology, and radiobiology. Modules include sections for anatomy, interpretation, pathology, and a post test. The post test for chest radiology includes 30 tests on anatomy, technique, and pathology.

Micromedex is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. 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.

Provides access to current events and archived news articles, general information, genetics information, research and clinical trials, and research resources.

Here are three sources of radiology cases.
Case in Point
LearningRadiology.com’s Case of the Week Archives
AuntMinnie.com’s Case of the Day
One must register to use this resource; registration is free. To see today’s case, click “View today’s Case.” To view past cases, click “View past cases here.”

Includes encyclopedia entries and patient cases contributed by residents and physicians. The browse by section area includes anatomy and mnemonics.

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.

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.

View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.

Access to UpToDate is now provided through Pathway. For further information, please see:

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This is a resource with original, peer-reviewed entries for 20 medical specialties 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 information in the specialties of adult and pediatric emergency medicine; adult primary care and internal medicine; allergy and immunology; cardiovascular medicine; dermatology; endocrinology and diabetes; family medicine; gastroenterology and hepatology; geriatrics; hematology; hospital medicine; infectious diseases; nephrology and hypertension; obstetrics, gynecology, etc.

The table of contents is listed here and is needed to locate other content. Includes animations, chapter overviews, and practice quizzes.

The detailed lecture guides include photomicrographs and animations.

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.

Provides videos and surgical outlines for knee disarticulation, partial calcanectomy, transfemoral amputation, transtibial amputation, and transmetatarsal amputation.

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. Links to videos are located after the instructions on the suture pages. Only includes video for loading a needle holder. Only includes textual instructions and images for the basic square knot.

To see games and tutorials, click on “Choose an Activity!” Helpful activities include Aortic Aneurysm Surgery, Choose the Prosthetic, Deep Brain Stimulation, Nanoparticles and Brain Tumors, Stem Cell: Create a Stem Cell Line, Stem Cell: Heart Repair, Stem Cell: Transplant, Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery, Virtual Hip Resurfacing Surgery, and Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery.

This University of Michigan Web site includes radiology images, surface anatomy, surgery videos and dissection sections that include videos (see “lab video,” objectives, clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, and practice quizzes. Other sections, including most numbered links, are visible only to authorized University of Michigan users.

Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has posted this seven-minute video.

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.

Free registration allows one to view surgical intervention videos, operative technique chapters, lectures, experts’ interviews, and debates between experts.

This excerpt from John W. Kimball’s online biology textbook covers the blood’s function, cells, and cell fragments.

Clotting – animations for normal and abnormal clot formation.

View normal and abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.

Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additional quizzes, please click here.

Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.

Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.

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.

Includes dissection prep and dissection review videos for the back & spine, thorax, upper limb, lower limb, abdomen, pelvis, and head & neck. Also includes a blood histology review and some videos for imaging, clinical, and surgical subspecialties topics.

Videos

Click link for dissection of interest. Then click “lab video” and click full size or reduced size video. Must have Quicktime installed to view videos.

Videos

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.

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.

Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.

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.

This University of Michigan Web site includes radiology images, surface anatomy, surgery videos and dissection sections that include videos (see “lab video,” objectives, clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, and practice quizzes. Other sections, including most numbered links, are visible only to authorized University of Michigan users.

Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.

Need Adobe Shockwave Player installed to view this website. This Stanford University website includes interactive tutorials with animations for cardiovascular system, cranial nerves, gastrointestinal system, medicine/pharmacy, neurology, renal system, respiratory system, the visual system, other topics, and reviews of muscular anatomy and skeletal anatomy.

Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.

Must use Google's Chrome browser, which may be downloaded here. Choose on a system and then click on the body to learn the names of items. You can rotate the body and zoom in and out.

Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.

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.

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.

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.

Includes animated tutorials for neuronal development, synaptic transmission, the action potential, the resting membrane potential, sensitization in aplysia, the voltage clamp method, AMPA and NMDA receptors, sound transduction, the vestibular system, visual pathways in the human brain, receptive fields in the retina, reflex arcs, receptors of the skin, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

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.

Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.

Has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular 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.

This interactive tutorial includes cute animations to show what the cranial nerves control.

Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.

View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.

View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.

This University of Virginia School of Medicine website includes modules for chest radiology, ICU chest films, hi-resolution chest CT, CT pulmonary angiography, cardiac MR, radionuclide localization, gastrointestinal radiology, genitourinary radiology, emergency body CT, emergency ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, imaging of the cervical spine, skeletal trauma, head CT, the basics of PETCT, pediatric radiology, and radiobiology. Modules include sections for anatomy, interpretation, pathology, and a post test. The post test for chest radiology includes 30 tests on anatomy, technique, and pathology.

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.

Includes plain film, CT, and MRI images. Click on the image for anatomical labels.

Includes encyclopedia entries and patient cases contributed by residents and physicians. The browse by section area includes anatomy and mnemonics.

Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.

Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.

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.

Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.

Click on “Renal” for a very detailed physiology tutorial by Stanford.

Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.

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 is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

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.

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 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 is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. 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.

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.”

Primarily provides information on anatomy, conditions, diseases, and mental health topics.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists provides patient information on drugs and how to administer them.

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.

Access to UpToDate is now provided through Pathway. For further information, please see:

Access instructions for UpToDate and Cochrane Library

This is a resource with original, peer-reviewed entries for 20 medical specialties 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 information in the specialties of adult and pediatric emergency medicine; adult primary care and internal medicine; allergy and immunology; cardiovascular medicine; dermatology; endocrinology and diabetes; family medicine; gastroenterology and hepatology; geriatrics; hematology; hospital medicine; infectious diseases; nephrology and hypertension; obstetrics, gynecology, etc.

Provides publications, statistics, and information on diseases and other health topics.

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.

This is a searchable directory of health organizations.

Includes numerous links and completed evidence-based clinical reports on cancer and blood disorders, kidney conditions, lung conditions, dietary supplements, and more.

Provides access to databases, medical dictionaries, a medical encyclopedia, health and medical journals, and more.

Includes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

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).

Provides access to current events and archived news articles, general information, genetics information, research and clinical trials, and research resources.

Click here for a list of health topics for which information is provided. Includes international medical statistics here.

Also see the government resources

Includes downloadable PowerPoint presentations, evidence-based medicine tools, downloadable research articles, and information on courses and events.

One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes over 6,300 evidence-based and physician-reviewed articles on diseases and conditions. Also includes over 2,100 drug monographs, more than 650 clinical procedures articles, and 70 anatomy articles.

This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.

The gateway for demographics, statistics, and information on health care in Tennessee.

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).

This tutorial teaches you about medical words. You'll learn about how to put together parts of medical words. You'll also find quizzes to see what you've learned.

Includes three quizzes on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Most terms cover the cardiovascular system.

This information resource is provided by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Service.

AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill provides access to more than 60 medical titles, including the Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment series, Tintinalli’s emergency medicine text, and Goodman & Gilman’s pharmacology text. Also includes updated content, images and illustrations, interactive self-assessments, videos, audio files, board review practice questions, drug information, diagnostic tests, guidelines, quick answers, case files, patient education, clerkship materials, and a comprehensive search platform. Users are able to view from and download content to a mobile device. There is a limit of five concurrent users at any given time.

“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.

One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes helpful tables.

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.

Reports safety information and adverse events for medications and medical devices. You can sign up to receive free emails of the alerts.

Micromedex is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. 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.

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,

Title 21 covers food and drugs. Dr. Babos refers to section 182 for Substances Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) in lectures. To browse a section, choose the section and click search.

This platform allows one to see all of the books in STAT!Ref Medical and STAT!Ref Nursing and the collection unique to LMU. Includes an evidence-based resource from the American College of Physicians (ACP PIER). Also includes 5-Minute Clinical Consult, ACP Medicine, and Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology and provides coverage of pediatric nursing, natural products, culturally competent care, diagnostic tests and procedures, and more. In ‘Basic’ searches, you can retrieve links to specific chapters in each book title or you can conduct a keyword search of one or more specific books with ‘Advanced’ searches. Clicking on a selection shows detailed information in full-text format complete with tables and graphics. In addition to the books, STAT!Ref also includes MedCalc3000 (calculators, decision trees, etc.), evidence alerts, a medical news feed, Stedman’s medical dictionary, and nursing podcasts. There is a limit of 7 concurrent users at any given time for most items.

Access to UpToDate is now provided through Pathway. For further information, please see:

Access instructions for UpToDate and Cochrane Library

This is a resource with original, peer-reviewed entries for 20 medical specialties 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 information in the specialties of adult and pediatric emergency medicine; adult primary care and internal medicine; allergy and immunology; cardiovascular medicine; dermatology; endocrinology and diabetes; family medicine; gastroenterology and hepatology; geriatrics; hematology; hospital medicine; infectious diseases; nephrology and hypertension; obstetrics, gynecology, etc.

Includes a heart sounds tutorial, a heart sounds quiz, a high-and low-frequency sounds program, a physiological splitting of the second heart sound, an ECGviewer, a frontal axis demo, and an SVT tutorial.

Includes tutorials for heart sounds, lung sounds, EKGs, abdominal sounds, and blood pressure. Also includes cases for carotid artery bruit and pulmonary problem solving. Also includes short courses that provide auscultation training by repetition.

Includes audio files of heart murmurs and breathing sounds.

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).

VisualDx includes an interactive tool for finding differential diagnoses based on visual findings. Includes information on conditions with visual findings. Also includes components for international travel, child abuse recognition, terrorism recognition, oral mucosa, drug eruptions, external eye visual findings, fever and rash, smallpox vaccination, CA-MRSA, pressure ulcer staging, marine exposures, cellulitis differential diagnosis, female anogenital visual findings, male anogenital visual findings, immunocompromised conditions, nail and distal digit visual finding; and bites, stings, and infestations.

Receive a free CD-ROM of ADA guidelines from the U.S. government.

Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.

Science-related DVDs, videotapes, CD-ROMs, and publications are available to scientists, educators, and librarians.

Medical Billing and Coding Certification provides several videos that serve to introduce students and other interested parties to medical billing and coding. Videos cover relevant vocabulary terms, concepts, and guidelines. You may also access quizzes via this resource.

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.”

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additional quizzes, please click here.

Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.

Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.

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.

Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.

Dr. Henderson recommends the following animations: life cycle of an mRNA, life cycle of a protein, mRNA splicing, and translation.

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.

Following an overview, this website provides annotated animations on membranes, diffusion/osmosis, passive transport, and active transport.

This Wiley site provides animations and review questions for sections for an introduction, cellular location, cyclic overview, catabolism, anabolism and catabolism, sources of acetyl-coa (fatty acidcs, amino acids, and monosaccharides), reactants and products, cyclical reaction pathway, fate of acetyl-coa carbon, regulation: inhibition, regulation: activation, energetics (anaerobic and aerobic), and anaplerotic reactions.

“This animation of the Electron Transport Chain (ETC) is designed to show the major events. For the sake of clarity the protein complexes in the membranes are shown as “blobs”….compounds turn blue when they are reduced and red when oxidized.”

“For the sake of clarity this animation of glycolysis does not show the enzymes that catalyze each reaction, and only the carbon skeletons of the intermediates are shown. You should note the major stages in glycolysis, especially the changes in energy content.”

Includes animations for atp synthase, the electron transport chain, protein trafficking, protein modification, protein recycling, insulin signaling, constitutive secretion, regulated secretion, mitochondrial protein transport, photosynthesis (light), photosystem II, mitosis, transcription, regulated transcription, mRNA processing, mRNA splicing, translation, and lac operon. Created by the North Dakota State University Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Center.

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.

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.

Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.

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.

This University of Michigan Web site includes radiology images, surface anatomy, surgery videos and dissection sections that include videos (see “lab video,” objectives, clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, and practice quizzes. Other sections, including most numbered links, are visible only to authorized University of Michigan users.

Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.

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.

Need Adobe Shockwave Player installed to view this website. This Stanford University website includes interactive tutorials with animations for cardiovascular system, cranial nerves, gastrointestinal system, medicine/pharmacy, neurology, renal system, respiratory system, the visual system, other topics, and reviews of muscular anatomy and skeletal anatomy.

Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.

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.

Click on the Tutorial button for explanations on how to solve the problems.

Includes drag-and-drop quizzes on the components of the specific and nonspecific host defense system.

Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.

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.

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.

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.

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Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations.

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.

Includes animated tutorials for neuronal development, synaptic transmission, the action potential, the resting membrane potential, sensitization in aplysia, the voltage clamp method, AMPA and NMDA receptors, sound transduction, the vestibular system, visual pathways in the human brain, receptive fields in the retina, reflex arcs, receptors of the skin, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

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.

Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.

Within each section of this atlas from Columbia University are numerous images with listings of contents on which you can click an item to see it highlighted in the image. Click on “select lab here” at the top of the screen to choose one of the following sections: surface anatomy, internal structure, vasculature, somatic sensory system, sensory cranial nerves, visual system, auditory system, descending motor pathways, cerebellum, basal ganglia, vestibular and oculomotor systems, hypothalmus, limbic system, clinical case images, atlas – myelin stained sections, atlas – surface anatomy, and magnetic resonance images.

Has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular 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.

Includes eighteen quizzes for pathways in the anterolateral system, dorsal column, trigeminal system (pain/temp), trigeminal system (touch), visceral sensation and taste, visual system, vestibular system, auditory system, corticospinal tract, corticobulbar tract, vestibulospinal tract, spinocerebellar tract, corticopontocerebellar tract, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, olfactory system, Circle of Papez, and limbic system.

Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.

This interactive tutorial includes cute animations to show what the cranial nerves control.

Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.

View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.

View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.

Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.

Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.

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.

Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.

MCAT test prep video from Khan Academy

Click on “Renal” for a very detailed physiology tutorial by Stanford.