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Continuing Education

Congress Resource Center provides information on upcoming medical meetings. There is no main header for pathology, but many meetings are listed if you do a search by "pathology". The CRC is a feature of the Doctor's Guide, which provides medical news to physicians.

A great list of online sites that offer CME credit for physicians is maintained by Dr. Bernard Sklar.

eMedicine, a portal page with various goodies (journal articles, clinical decision support tools, featured cases, phobia of the day, etc.), offers some free and lots of inexpensive fee-based for-credit CME. If you register (free), you can customize the portal page to show your choice of a daily sample of journal articles.

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Courseware

Gold Standard Multimedia. Commercial developer of medical educational software--clinical pharmacology, integrated medical curriculum, virtual human gallery.

New Media Medicine. This site has information about mobile and wireless applications for health care, as well as e-learning. Under e-learning, there's news and recommended reading for developers, as well as some interesting Flash tutorials (see NMM Studio).

QuestionMark is software for authoring assessment items of various types, compiling them into tests, and keeping records of results (using MS Access or SQL databases). Lots of samples.

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Learning/Practice Models

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford. "Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research".

University Health Network/Mt. Sinai Hospital of the University of Toronto also have an interesting CEBM site. The Miner Library has a list of EBM resources.

The International Virtual Medical School now has its own web site. 36 institutions from 15 countries are participating in the project. Aims of the virtual school include increased access to medical education and sharing of expertise and learning resources.

Lectures by Robert Trelstad of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Child Health Institute:
Teaching Pathology without Lectures and Robbins in a Box;
Eliminating Lectures through Reading Discussion and Computer-based Information and Self Assessment;
Pathology Education in the 21st Century

Problem-Based Learning, at the University of Delaware, with links to upcoming conferences and medical school PBL sites.

A Unifying Concept of Disease in Pathology Education, from Dr. John B. Henry of SUNY Upstate Medical Center. The unifying concept is the conceptualization of diseases/syndromes through the sequential presentation of the components of a disease: etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, etc. Medical students at SUNY have been building this web site by filling in the components for a list of diseases.

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Online Resources

(See additional listings under Pathology Departments)

Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy. From the University of Iowa Virtual Hospital. Hundreds of well-organized and well-labelled images.

Basic Embryology. An overview of embryo development from the University of Pennsylvania. Drawings and animation.

Body Sites. List of diseases by body site from The Doctor's Doctor, a group of Torrence, California pathologists. Lengthy descriptions of each disease with references to articles in peer-reviewed journals. They also offer an introduction to lab tests.

The Interactive Body from the BBC. Rotate, drag and drop organs, muscles, bones, into the right place.

MIT Biology Hypertextbook. Chapters and practice problems in molecular biology.

Cell Biology Topics. Notes and presentations from Dr. Gwen Childs of the University of Arkansas.

Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics, a very extensive browsable and searchable list of links from the Karolinska Institute.

Google Advanced Image Search. The best way to find medical/pathology images on the Internet.

Embryology from the University of New South Wales. A comprehensive "exploration of development" featuring both normal and abnormal development. Sections for K-12 as well as medical and science graduate students.

Loyola University LUMEN is a collection of materials for Loyola students, many of which are generally accessible. There's a long list of resources under Graduate Medical Education.

MDConsult is one of the best sources of medical textbooks on line. It is a subscription service, available to UR faculty and staff through the Miner Digital Library.

Medcyclopaedia from Amersham (GE Healthcare) comes in standard and professional versions and includes all text and images from the eight-volume Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging. Text and images can be copied for non-commercial use, so long as the source is cited.

Medical Student.com, from Michael D'Alessandro at the University of Iowa,is a list of general and subject-related links for medical students.

Neuroanatomy Lab Resources from Temple University includes angiograms, CT scans, MRI, gross brain images, as well as QuickTime movies of steps in the neurologic exam.

Online Biology Book. By M.J. Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona. Need a refresher? Has nice charts and images.

The Virtual Medical Center has pointers to thousands of multimedia medical teaching files/manuals/modules, including dictionaries, databases, and pathology lab protocols.

The Visible Human Project from the National Library of Medicine.

Who Named It? provides lists of medical eponymns: diseases, syndromes, tests, theories, etc. with accompanying biographies. This is an already-significant work in progress. The editor requests your help in filling in gaps and correcting errors.

Widener University has a module on Evaluating Web Resources, with sets of checklists to help users analyze the quality of the information at various websites. Extensive bibliography and links to example pages.

World Lecture Hall, on the University of Texas web, publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. There are a number of links for anatomy, medicine,and microbiology.

WorldOrtho is a large interactive web site, created and maintained by the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Nepean Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Main topics are orthopaedics, trauma, and sports medicine. Contents include texts, lecture notes, quiz questions, and a discussion forum.

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Organizations

Association of American Medical Colleges. AAMC STAT is the weekly e-mail newsletter with online subscription information.

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies. Sponsors conferences, awards and fellowships. Forums for sharing best practices. Edupage is a free daily e-mail service with news summaries, heavy focus on IT in universities.

Group for Research in Pathology Education (GRIPE). PDF copies of Pathology Education bulletin, info re organization, membership, and meetings.

Others

American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
Association for Medical Education in Europe

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Publications

The Chronicle of Higher Education. An indispensible resource for higher education news and jobs. Some information available only to subscribers.