Health Sciences Online (HSO)

Health Sciences Online (http://hso.info) is a new information portal for health professionals.  The search engine currently links to more than 50,000 free resources including courses, lectures, guidelines, handbooks, open access articles, ebooks, image galleries,  and more.  The goal is to facilitate access to authoritative, comprehensive, free, ad-free health knowledge sources for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and [...]

Competency-based medical education

Dr. Rajesh Mangrulkar of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, presented a concurrent session describing U of M Medical School’s work on transforming medical education to be more competency-based, reiterating that competency equals accountability.  
Briefly describing the history of medical education, Dr. Mangrulkar notes that the current physician rewards system is destroying the clinical learning experience at the [...]

Surgery videos added to InfoTrac

From Gale’s weekly product update:
I am pleased to welcome OR Live to our InfoTrac family. Medical students will now have the ability to view live surgeries. From plastic surgery to vascular surgeries, anesthesia to spine surgeries, Academic OneFile will provide both articles and video! Links to these surgeries from OR Live will be available [...]

Doctors reflecting on medical knowledge

Two interesting items this week about information access and medical education:
Dr. Joshua Schwimmer writes about Google Books in the Tech Medicine blog at Healthline. He relates an experience using Google Books to find quick access to a page on necrotizing fasciitis while examining a patient with medical students and residents in the emergency room: [...]

Snow day!

Blizzard conditions here in west Michigan make it a good day to catch up on blogwatching –
David Rothman is compiling a list of wikis for health librarians. He also points us to a Mayo press release touting their collaboration with Microsoft to develop consumer health products: Mayo Clinic, Microsoft Announce Strategic Agreement To Develop [...]

More Medical & Scientific Videos

ScienceRoll  (scienceroll.com) bills itself as “a medical student’s journey inside medicine and genetics through web 2.0″.  Author Bertalan Meskó recently updated his Medical/Scientific Video List.
Additional medical videos available free from U.S. government agencies:

CDC’s Public Health Training Network
Satellite Broadcasts and Webcasts – forthcoming, and archived.
Web-based, and Web on Demand – CE available
FDA Patient Safety News - A [...]

Slide Sharing sites

A few weeks ago, a physician asked me to find a slide-sharing website that he had heard about through word-of-mouth. I came up with Slideshare: www.slideshare.net .
I’ve just run across another: AuthorStream: www.authorstream.com . Like Slideshare, AuthorStream allows presenters to upload and share presentations. The site includes animated presentations and presentations [...]

More medical videos

Another Internet video resource: NEJM’s Videos in Clinical Medicine (http://content.nejm.org/misc/videos.shtml?ssource=recentVideos). This series of teaching videos demonstrates procedural techniques.  Read about the series in the related NEJM editorial Videos in Clinical Medicine — a new NEJM Feature. NEJM 2006 Apr 13; 354(15): 1635.

Medical Internet Videos…

… and other cool toys.
Recent posts on David Rothman’s blog (davidrothman.net), link to some great video resources for medical staff / medical education:
The JAMA Report, a weekly audio/video news service from JAMA, can be downloaded in a variety of formats. It’s also available through blip.tv at http://thejamareport.blip.tv/, where it’s possible to subscribe to an RSS [...]