National Medical Library

Interactive Web Resources

Anatomy & Physiology

• How to Tour the Brain (from the National Brain Tumor Society)
• Superficial Head & Neck - Brief Tutorial (by J. Crimando, GateWay Community College, Maricopa, Arizona)
• Interactive Active Atlas of Thoracic Viscera (from the University of Washington)
• LUMEN Master Muscle List (from Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN), Chicago)
• LUMEN Dissector (from Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN), Chicago)
• GUT: The Inner Tube of Life (from Science)
• WinkingSkull.com (from Thieme Publishers. Free versoin)

Clinical Skills

• Interactive Medical Cases (from NEJM)

Diseases & Conditions

• Tutorials from MedlinePlus

EBM

• Evidence-Based Practice Tutorial: An Interactive Case Scenario (from the University of California at Irvine)

Genetics

• The Double Helix Game (from the official Nobel Prize web site)

Metabolism

• Metabolism Problem Set (from The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona)
• Carbohydrate Metabolism Regulation Problem Set  (from The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona)

Tests & Diagnostic Procedures

•  Tutorials from MedlinePlus

Language Guides

• Talking with Patients from India and Pakistan

PreMed 1 Worksheets

• Session - Library and Print Resources
• Session - eBooks
• Session - Evaluating Health Web Sites
• Session - Resources for Identifying Scholarly Literature & Locating Health Statistics
• Session - Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• Session - Designing Search Queries
• Session - NML Databases

Reliable Health Information Web Sites

• Easy to Read Drug Facts (includes text-to-speech) -- from the U. S. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) -- from the U.S. National Institutes of Health
• STFM Group on Immunization Education

Resources for Images, Videos, and Podcasts

Resources for Images

• PMC from NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
• Enter your search term in the "Search" text box, and then click on "Search." Results and links to  images related to your search term will display on the right side of the screen.
• PHIL (Public Health Image Library) from the CDC (U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Images from HEAL
• Images from AccessMedicine
• Images in Clinical Medicine (from NEJM)

Resources for Videos

• Anatomy Videos (from MedlinePlus)
• IME Video Library (from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health)
• Provider Education Videos about the kidneys, kidney diseases, and dialysis (from the U.S. National Institutes of Health)
• Surgery Videos (from various institutions and hosted on the MedlinePlus web site.)
• Videos in Clinical Medicine  (from The New England Journal of Medicine)
• Science Video Portal (from Science)
• AccessMedicine

Topical Resources Lists

Audio Resources for Respiratory Sounds

From Loyola University Medical School, Chicago
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/MEDICINE/PULMONAR/PD/pstep29.htm
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/MEDICINE/PULMONAR/IMAGES/CD-LungSounds/mac/cugell-07july11.swf
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/medicine/pulmonar/pd/step29e.htm

From the University of California at Lost Angeles
http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/lungintro.htm

From East Tennessee State University
http://faculty.etsu.edu/arnall/www/public_html/heartlung/breathsounds/contents.html

From Merck Manuals Online Medical Library
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec05/ch045/ch045a.html#sec05-ch045-ch045a-18
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/multimedia/Audio1sec5ch45.html?Ref=t&ItemId=Audio1sec5ch45&RefId=sec05/ch045/ch045a&Speed=110&Plugin=WMP&Error=

Health Widgets

• Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator  >>>>
• Body Weight Simulator  >>>>
• Infection and Infection Control Resources  >>>>

Medical Terminology

Resources for understanding medical terminology >>>>

Metabolism

Resources for understanding metabolism>>>>

Statistics

Resources for understanding and applying health and medical statistics
Resources for UAE and international health statistics

Thorax Resources (MSC1, Unit 5) >>>>

Evaluating Resources

Resources for Evaluating Information Sources on the Internet
National Library of Medicine Checklist of Questions for Evaluating Internet Health Information
NML Tutorial for Identifying Scholarly Literature
Helpful web sites for identifying scholary and peer-reviewed journals

Tutorials

Academic Search Complete

Accessing ACP Journal Club
Locating a Particular Journal

Ebrary

ebrary Training Video
ebrary Tutorial

Evidence Based Medicine/Practice Tutorials

Evidence Based Practice Tutorial (from the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine)
Evidence-Based Practice Tutorial: An Interactive Case Scenario (from the University of California at Irvine)
How to Form an Answerable Clinical Question (a tutorial by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
NML PICO Tutorial

Evaluation of Resources Tutorials

NML Tutorial for Identifying Scholarly Literature
Resources for Evaluating Information Sources on the Internet

Medical Terminology

Understanding Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine

OvidSP

How to access and search LWW Doodys 2009 Essential Titles (an e-book collection)

PubMed / Medline / MeSH

Inter-relationship of Medline, MeSH, and PubMed
PubMed Online Training -Various tutorials from the U.S. National Library of Medicine PubMed Web Site
Searching PubMed with MeSH -tri-fold handout in PDF, February 2011), from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Branching Out: The MeSH Vocabulary -video from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Elements of a MeSH Record
Elements of a PubMed Citation
PubMed Stopwords

Science

Tutorial on how to navigate Science Online -Searching  Tips
Boolean Operators - Tutorial from the Library of CQ University, Australia
Boolean Searches - Tutorial from Lake Land College Library, Matoon, IL, USA

Using and Locating Print Resources

Reading Call Numbers Assigned to NML Materials
Parts of a Book

Health Sciences Tutorials

The Life and Death of a Neuron -From the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Gut: The Inner Tube of Life - from Science
Coffee Break -Tutorials for NCBI Tools from National Center for Biotechnology Information