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Medical Education Resources
[Important Note: This is not necessarily an endorsement of every link, nor should any of this be considered medical advice. This is for learning purposes only.]
Some of the other articles/blogs on this website overlap, such as:
• Learning & Healing Are Intrinsically Connected
• Living Is Healing: Part 1
• Handling Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma
• Relationship Difficulties
...etc.
I tried to stick with Free and Open Access Medical education (FOAMed) resources as much as possible. All of them are legal as far as I can tell. They are sorted into very general categories, but are not in any particular order. I have a bias towards specific subjects (such as Austere, Emergency, Functional, Lifestyle, Nutritional, and other more "niche" forms of medicine), so some of the included links might be reflective of that.
General
• Life In The Fast Lane (LITFL)
There are a lot of phenomenal resources here (e.g.: all of the Libraries, Anatomy for Emergency Medicine, Physiology Philes, Part One notes on pharmacology, etc.)
• SimpleMed
• Almost A Doctor
• Geeky Medics
• In2Med
• Quack Quack Med
• Peers In Patho
• Carewell Pharma
• mednotes.co.uk
• Nurselabs
• Oxford Medical Eduction
• Stanford Medicine 25
• Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM)
This website has a lot of useful courses, articles, and books.
• The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki
• WikiProjectMed
• UpToDate - Patient Education
• Physiopedia
• AnatomyZone
• TeachMePhysiology
• Deranged Physiology
• WebMD
• MedicineNet
Hospital-Specific Resources
• Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Housestaff Manual
• University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Hospitalist Handbook
• EMS Protocols
Podcasts / Blogs
• Emergency Medicine Cases
Very informative. Be sure to check out the Summary Pages.
• EMCrit
Sadly, this is now a subscription service, but the Internet Book of Critical Care (IBCC) is still worth looking at.
• EMOttawa
Check out the free Handbook of Emergency Medicine.
• ResusNation
• The Remote, Austere, and Wilderness (RAW) Medicine Podcast
• fx Medicine
• Green Medicine Radio
• Nutrition Rewired
• The Clinical Problem Solvers
• Divine Intervention
• willpeachMD
• Nurse Nacole
Literature Reviews
• The Skeptic's Guide to EM
See their yearly anthologies.
• Critical Care Reviews
See their yearly anthologies.
• RebelEM
• St. Emlyn's
Pediatrics Specific
• Pediatrica Intensiva: The Art & Science of Pediatric Critical Care
• Pediatric EM Morsels
YouTube Channels
• NinjaNerd
• Comms Lab
• Siebert Science
• Organized Biology
• Rhesus Medicine
• Medicosis Perfectionalis
• Whiteboard Medicine Emergency And Critical Care
• MEDspiration
• RN Kid
• MedCram
• The Paramedic Coach
• The Resuscitationist
• The Center for Medical Education
• RegisteredNurseRN
• MedNerd
• ICU Advantage
• Nurse Cheung
• Knife Skills
• Rescue Academy
• SimpleNursing
• CriticalCareNow
• Armando Hasudungan
• Stomp On Step 1
• Study This!
• RegisteredNurseRN
• Osmosis
• Dirty Medicine
• LevelUpRN
• The Learn Medicine Show
• JJ Medicine
• Doctor Myro
• NRSNG
• Taim Talks Med
• Doctor Mike
• Dr. Philip Tisdall
Learning Websites By Specific Subjects
Heart-Related Imaging and EKG Interpretation
• Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
Great resource. Of particular importance is The OMI Manifesto and a lecture that describes why it is important. For an abbreviated introduction, read this blog.
• Intuitive Cardiology - Introduction to Coronary Angiography
Free Textbooks
• OpenStax
There are a lot of useful ones here (e.g.: the entire Nursing section, Anatomy & Physiology 2E, etc.).
• The Open RN Project
• LibreTexts - Health Sciences Library
• The University of Cape Town - General Surgery Textbook for Undergraduates [Individual Chapter Downloads]
• The University of Cape Town - Open Access Atlas of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Operative Surgery
• BC Open Collection
• Principles of Pharmacology - Study Guide
• Biology of Aging
• Basic Human Anatomy
• Virginia Tech Open Textbooks
There are several Medical related textbooks mixed in here (e.g.: Human Anatomy Self-Assessment, Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Immunology, Applied Human Neuroanatomy, etc.).
Image Databases
• Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
• University of Utah - Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) Collection
• TexasTech University Health Sciences Center - Gross Anatomy
• Anatomy Atlases
Link Collections
• FOAMSearch
Unfortunately, a lot of these links are defunct now.
• OpenMichigan - Open Health Collections
Clinical Cases, Medical Journals, etc.
• The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Clinical Cases
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
• Journal of Medical Case Reports
• PubMed [and the related Clinical Trials website]
• OpenEvidence
• OpenMD
Several of the previously mentioned websites have collections of clinical cases geared towards medical students as well (e.g.: In2Med, LITFL, etc.).
Testing Related
I am not going to focus much on testing related materials, but I think that these links are informative.
• Mehlman Medical
• REMS Google Drive
Calculators, Related Apps
• MedicalStat
• MDCalc
• Medical Lab Tests
• American Red Cross First Aid
• PFA Mobile (for implementing Psychological First Aid)
• CBT-i Coach (for dealing with insomnia)
• Timeshifter (for managing one's circadian rhythms during shift work)
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