Understanding Medical Words

It’s all Greek to me! It’s like alphabet soup?

MedlinePlus has a new interactive online tutorial to help the health information consumer gain comfort with medical terminology.

The graphical slides, which you forward at your own speed, take a path through a series of explanations including deciphering root words accompanied by graphics, abbreviations, interjected quizzes, links back to MedlinePlus for illustration and more.

Check it out!

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords/

H1N1 Flu Update

From the CDC: View US map with confirmed cases by state.

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm



From MedlinePlus: Overview, news, symptoms, treatment, prevention, management, etc.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/h1n1fluswineflu.html

MedEdPORTAL

The Association of American Medical Colleges has a website that is filled with free resources regarding medical and dental education.

The Website offers "peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, simulation cases, lab guides, videos, podcasts, assessment tools, etc."

Visitors familiar with the rising importance of cultural competence education in the healthcare setting will be interested in "The Cultural Self-Awareness Workshop", which is under the Featured Publications heading on the homepage. In the exercises' abstracts visitors can find the intended learner and faculty audience, lessons learned, and educational objectives.

Explore at:

http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/segment/mededportal/information/

Reported by The Scout Report -- April 24, 2009