Education & Training Tools
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MedLine
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE is the primary component of PubMed. Read More »
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Mirth Training & Certification Program
Mirth open source health IT solutions are used daily by thousands of health professionals across the U.S. to streamline care processes and to securely exchange health information. Mirth offers two levels of Mirth Certification: a Fundamentals & Advanced Training. Learn how to run your solutions effectively. Read More »
Moodle
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. It is a useful tool that can be used for medical education and training purposes.
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NeuroVR
NeuroVR is a cost-free virtual reality platform based on open-source software, that provides the clinical professional with a cost-free Virtual Reality (VR) editor to easily modify a virtual scene, to best suit the needs of the behavioural setting. Read More »
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Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons
Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons provides teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER Commons provides a single point of access through which educators, students, and all learners can search,browse, evaluate, and discuss over 30,000 high-quality OER publications of all sorts. Read More »
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Open Health IT Video Channel
The Open Health IT Channel on YouTube contains links to dozens of selected videos related to the topics of Open Source, Open Access, and Open Data in healthcare. The channel contains playlists of carefully selected videos focused on such areas as open source Health IT Software, Personal Health Records (PHR) Health Information Exchange (HIE), Education & Training, and more. Read More »
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OpenCourseWare
OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. Useful for medical education and training.
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OpenCourseWare Consortium
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
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OpenSimulator
OpenSimulator, also referred to as OpenSim, is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment or world which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. OpenSimulator allows virtual world developers to customize their worlds for various purposes, e.g. eGames, Medical Education, etc.
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit publisher and advocacy organization. Their mission is to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Everything they publish is 'open access' - freely available online for anyone to use.
PLoS goals are to: Read More »
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PubMed
PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Read More »
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Sakai
Sakai is a widely used open source Content Management System (CMS) and Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software solution designed for education, research and related scholarly activities. Read More »
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Simulation Technology and 'Open' EHR Systems for Medical Education & Training
Models of human patients have been used in medicine for thousands of years. Some of the first medical 'simulators' were simple representations in clay and stone that were used to demonstrate the clinical features of disease states and their effects on humans. Today, ever more sophisticated medical simulation tools and techniques have been developed and integrated into the education and training programs for medical professionals. There are now approximately 300 medical simulation centers in the U.S. Most are affiliated with medical schools, nursing schools, and major teaching hospitals.
Six Reasons 'Open Access' Matters to the Medical Community
I would argue that one of the most neglected and important ways to improve our healthcare delivery and innovation is by opening access to research. "Open Access" is the free, immediate, unrestricted availability of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship over the Internet - combined with the rights to use this information to its fullest possible extent.
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SOFA
Simulation Open Framework Architecture (SOFA) is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool.
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