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Student Survival Guides
These guides give a good summary of the broad subjects of medicine and give an idea of how what we learn is clinically relevant.
General Medicine Websites
Medical acronyms and Medical abbreviations: http://www.all-acronyms.com/cat/7
Medical Mnemonics: http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/
This website contains mnemonics for every facet of medicine - especially essential to help remember anatomy.
Medical Student: http://www.medicalstudent.com/
A fantastic website providing link to information about all forms of medicine. Includes links to online textbooks, patient simulators, atlases, medical journals, exam questions, internet medical directories and medical organisations.
EMedicine: http://www.emedicine.com
Provides open access to a comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields. It encompasses all specialties and is a great resource for PCL information.
Medscape: http://www.medscape.com/home
Links to Speciality sites, full text journal articles, medical news and more.
Medical Dictionary: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/
A reliable online source of medical definitions
Medicine Net: http://www.medicinenet.com/diseases_and_conditions/article.htm
Contains a wide range of information on medical diseases and conditions including information on signs and symptoms, procedures, tests, medications, health and living.
Medline Plus: http://medlineplus.gov/
Health information from the National American Library of Medicine. Large range of resources.
Virtual Medical Centre: http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/
Links to pages which provide thorough information on areas such as asthma, cardiac, cancer, blood, mental health, weight loss, women’s health, pain, skin and many more.
Best Health: http://www.besthealth.com/
A resource providing an encyclopedia and information regarding a wide range of conditions, surgeries, and drugs as well as a number of useful health calculators.
MedStudents: http://www.medstudents.com.br/english.htm
Provides clinical cases, articles and instant diagnosis tools.
Health Insite: http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/
A wide range of up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma.
Public Library of Science: http://www.plos.org/
Open access to a wide array of scientific and medical literature
Student Consult: http://www.studentconsult.com/
These provide online access with extra interactive activities to a number of prescribed textbooks including Kumar and Clark- Clinical Medicine, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology and Grey’s Anatomy for students. (Textbooks must be purchased to allow access to the website)
Online Textbooks: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books
MedNoteShare: http://mednoteshare.blogspot.com/
A website created by med students Daryl and Jasmine to share their resources.

Anatomy Websites
Instant Anatomy: http://www.instantanatomy.net/
Contains illustrations about anatomy of the human body as well as revision questions. Has simple diagrams that are great for anatomy pres
entations.
A.D.A.M: http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/index.htm
Encyclopedia, reports, care guides, surgeries and procedures and copious information on a range of medical topics.
Human Anatomy Online: http://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html
Interactive website that examines the Anatomy of the Human Body systemically
Medline Plus: Anatomy: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/anatomy.html
Links to descriptions and pictures of the human body's parts and organ systems
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resource: http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/
Anatomy atlas, dissection videos, tables, animations, learning modules and practice quizzes.
Anatomy Atlases: http://www.anatomyatlases.org/
A digital Library of Anatomy Information
Anatomy Practice Questions
http://www.wnor.myqth.com/practiceexams.htm
http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/courseinfo/mich_quiz_index.html
Saladin Anatomy & Physiology Quizzes: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072919264/student_view0/animations.html
Resources for Specific Topics
UNSW Embryology: http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/
ECG library: http://www.ecglibrary.com/
Plenty of ECGs to practice interpreting.
ECG simulator: http://www.skillstat.com/learn.htm
Quickly learn ECG interpretation with 25 of the most common ECGs. Challenge yourself to a ECG interpretation game.
Heart Sounds and Cardiac Arrhythmias: http://www.blaufuss.org/
Heart sounds tutorials where you can listen to the patient's heart at several listening locations, while at the same time you can see video of pulsations in the neck, precordium, or extremities. The findings are explained with text, as well as illustrated with phonocardiograms, hemodynamic data, and computer animations. Also an interactive quiz to test your ability to identify correctly the first and second heart sounds, extra sounds, diastolic and systolic murmurs in recordings of actual patients
First Aid for First Year: http://www.med.unc.edu/wms/First_Aid/first-year/
Information about cells, cell structure, embryology, host defences and microbial pathogens. Includes practice exams and note cards.
First Aid for Second Year: http://www.med.unc.edu/wms/First_Aid/second-year/
Information and resources on Haematology, Cardiology, Respiratory, GIT, Renal, Endocrine and Reproductive/Genetic Systems.
Virtual Family Medicine Interest Group: http://fmignet.aafp.org/index.xml
Family medicine and medical education resource for students.
GP Notebook: http://www.gpnotebook.com/homepage.cfm
UK Medical Encyclopedia providing regularly updated information.
Orthopaedics: http://www.wheelessonline.com/



