Useful Links
Teaching/Learning/Evaluation Tools for Health Professions Educators
Curriculum Planning, Assessment, and Teaching Strategies
The following websites provide resources for educator development, course design, institutional review, and planning.
- ALPS Reflect
- A tool that facilitates reflection on general features of education, classroom activities, and self-assessment.
- Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Interim Accreditation Review Process
- Resources to assist schools in maintaining compliance with Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)/Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) accreditation standards and creating a culture of continuous quality improvement.
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Knowledge Media Laboratory
- Helps teachers, faculties, programs, and institutions collectively advance teaching and learning by exchanging educational knowledge, experiences, ideas, and reflections through various technologies and resources.
- Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
- A nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions, and other partnership strategies.
- Designing a Teaching Portfolio, Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence (PDF)
- An annotated list of some useful readings and general guidelines on the topic of teaching portfolios.
- Distance Learning for Health: What Works. A Global Review of Accredited Post-Qualification Training Programmes for Health Workers in Low and Middle Income Countries (PDF)
- Summarizes findings of a global review by the London International Development Centre (LIDC) to identify patterns of success and impact, and outline likely trends, in the nature and provision of distance learning for health (DL4H) in low and middle income countries with a view toward informing future policy, research, and investment.
- Faculty Mentoring Guide, Virginia Commonwealth University
- A guide to encourage mentoring activities; a series of suggestions based on research concerning mentoring in health care, academia, and business.
- Fundamentals of Assessment in Medical Education (FAME) Course
- A basic-level course on educational assessment, designed for those who are members of medical faculties and are likely to be relatively new to teaching and assessment. Instruction concentrates on the application of assessment principles to assessment problems.
- Institute for International Medical Education (IIME) Global Minimum Essential Requirements in Medical Education
- A set of core competencies that encompass all important domains of medical practice. Specifies the knowledge, skills, professional attitudes, and behavior of universal value to the practice of medicine.
- International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Web Seminars
- Shares current and innovative means for teaching the sciences fundamental to medicine and health and provides a forum for discussion of issues affecting medical science education and educators.
- National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Item Writing Manual
- Provides an overview of item formats, concentrating on the traditional one-best-answer and matching formats, aiming to help faculty members improve the quality of the multiple-choice questions written for their examinations.
- The Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education Digital Portfolio
- A web-based assessment and presentation application that allows users to demonstrate their capabilities and achievements in relation to a predetermined set of principles or standards.
- WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement – Basic Medical Education
- An overview of the World Federation for Medical Education’s (WFME) standards for basic medical education, including the standards for educational programs, assessment of students, educational resources, program evaluation, and governance and administration.
- WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement – Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of Medical Doctors
- An overview of the World Federation for Medical Education’s (WFME) standards for CPD, including standards for learning methods, educational context and resources, and evaluation of methods and competencies.
- WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement – Postgraduate Medical Education
- An overview of the World Federation for Medical Education’s (WFME) standards for postgraduate medical education, including standards for training process, assessment of trainees, evaluation of training process, and governance and administration.
Teaching Materials
The following websites provide access to tools that can be used in the classroom, such as textbooks, lectures, and digital teaching modules.
- AAMC MedEdPortal
- A free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources.
- African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) Training and Health Learning Materials
- Provides various databases to search for books, videos, publications, articles, images, and journals.
- Baylor College of Medicine Online CME
- Provides free on-line CME activities related to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, medical ethics, pediatrics, surgery, and women’s health.
- BMJ Learning
- On-line continuing professional development and training courses containing various kinds of interactive CME and training modules.
- Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health (CES4Health.info)
- A free, on-line mechanism for peer reviewing, publishing, and disseminating products of health-related, community-based scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles.
- Education Scholar Fee Required
- A web-based program for improving instructional skills for educators in the health professions.
- Expanded Textbook and Instructional Materials Program (PALTEX) Latin America only
- Provides books and instruments to students and health professionals; publishes and distributes manuals and other materials focused on the needs of health service personnel at all levels of the health system.
- Free Books 4 Doctors
- Promotes free access to medical books.
- Free Medical Journals
- Provides free on-line journals classified according to medical topics, available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
- Global Health eLearning Center
- Provides flexible Internet-based courses in key public health areas with access to important up-to-date technical information.
- Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
- A digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, reuse, and discuss medical education resources and methods.
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE)
- An on-line research journal employing visualization to increase reproducibility and transparency in biological sciences.
- Knowledge Weavers Project, University of Utah Health Sciences Center
- Multimedia resources, including tutorials, interactive cases, animations, and other multimedia methods of delivery, to support health sciences education.
- PAHO Virtual Campus of Public Health (Campus Virtual de Salud Pública)
- On-line educational tool of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for networked learning in the region of the Americas.
- Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe)
- A free public repository of educational materials in various e-learning formats, including lectures, exercises, virtual patients, case-based discussions, and simulations.
- Pearson Custom Library: Allied Health
- An on-line book-building program where an educator can browse and preview the selections available and tailor a textbook to fit the individual needs of a specific course or specific students in Allied Health.
- Pearson Custom Library: Pearson Custom Education
- An on-line book-building program where an educator can browse and preview the selections available and tailor a textbook to fit the individual needs of a specific course or specific students in Education.
- Supercourse
- A repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention.
- The Residents’ Teaching Skills Website, University of California, Irvine
- An on-line collaboration for resident teachers to learn and improve teaching skills through sharing, watching teaching videos, and acknowledging what other teachers are doing.
- Tufts OpenCourseWare
- A joint project with MIT that offers free access to certain course content on-line, in an effort to share knowledge and make the best educational use of the internet’s potential.
Team Based Learning
- Baylor College of Medicine Team Based Learning
- Provides background information, internet-based resources on TBL, and a rationale for using TBL in medical education.
- Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC)
- Provides basic knowledge on how to apply TBL methods. Includes a TBL Collaborative for discussion of current TBL hot topics, a TBL Listserve, and a TBL Case Bank for TBLC members.
- Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Team-Based Learning (TBL)
- Free access to articles, books, modules, posters, videos, and websites of TBL theories and application.
