Using computers to teach medical students

• davis3d: Dynamic Anatomy Visualization in 3-D
• Light-Microscopic Histology Atlas by Y. Clermont, M. Lalli & Zs. Bencsath-Makkai
• 3Dear: tutorial on the anatomy of the middle and inner ear, making use of interactive 3-D models and including a quiz. The instructions for viewing the 3-D models are out of date; see these instructions instead.
• The CM³ project (Computer-Mediated Creation & Management of Curricular Material) was part of the McGill Medical Informatics Project. This project is no longer active. It included, among other things:
  • Conversion of medical-curriculum notes to HTML: Production version (obsolete; restricted access)
  • Quizzes
  • 3-D anatomy project: interactive 3-D models using VRML and Java
• anatomy3d: old teaching site for anatomy, including 3-D VRML models of the head and pelvis based on data from the Visible Human Project. The models are presented using a Java applet for selecting structures, controlling transparency, etc. (originally here)
• oto3d: old teaching site for the ear, including a 3-D histology-based VRML model of the ear, and photos of a large-scale physical model (originally here)

Teaching medical students about computers

• Camel: Computer Applications in Medicine elective for fourth-year medical students
• Basic Computer Notions: Tutorial material used in Camel course
• SOS: on-line help for users of the Medical Computing Resource
• InCore: Introduction to Computing Resources for first-year medical students

Other sites

• Canadian medical schools
• Medical organizations
• Electronic publishing (including design and usability issues)
• Free Medline.
• NLM's Visible Human project (Workshop (1998 Feb 25)
• Information about NLM's Unified Medical Language System, UMLS
• Radiologic Anatomy Browser from The Uniformed Services University (Bethesda, MD)
• Digital Anatomist at the University of Washington (Seattle). You can browse through a number of atlases, see structures outlined or labelled or both, watch animations, and do quizzes.
• Merck Manual, 16th edition (1992)
• Molecular modelling from UCLA
• LectureLinks at Johns Hopkins. Aims to allow medical students `to access course information, lecture notes, handouts, and sample exams in a searchable, lecture-by-lecture format. For each lecture, two or three relevant links have been identified to resources that exist outside of the institution.' The lecture notes themselves have been implemented for very few lectures (and are not accessible from outside JHU).
• Short Rounds Development Consortium (at Stanford's SUMMIT)
• OTL syllabus for medical students, from Baylor
• Curriculum guide for internal medicine from SGIM/CDIM
• British Medical Journal: contents pages, abstracts, and some full-text articles
• The Urbana Atlas of Pathology
• WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education, University of Utah. Contains about 1800 images with descriptions, about 1600 multiple-choice questions with answers, plus case-based exercises, mini-tutorials, etc.
• Medscape: practice-oriented articles on AIDS, infectious diseases, urology and surgery. Free but requires registration.
• PharmInfoNet: pharmaceutical product information
• Medical Matrix, a hypertext guide to on-line medical resources, by Malet & Hancock. It is based on medically oriented items extracted from the more comprehensive guide to health-sciences resources by Hancock.
• WordNet: an on-line lexical reference system (not specifically medical)
• Interactive frog dissections from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and from the University of Virginia
• InformEd: Informatics in Education (general, non-medical)