Medical Education Resources

This guide is for medical billing and coding.

Medical students are preparing fast pace careers as physicians. Medical students are physicians in training and the challenges faced can be the most difficult. The struggle to balance life as a student, friend, and a relative can add to the stress. Any help can ease stress and push you towards success. These resources provide quality medical principles and guidelines that are important in medical education.

Online Medical Textbooks

• The Merck Manuals: Merck online medical manual.
• Dermatology: Electronic dermatology textbook.
• Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments: United States Army medical textbook on harsh environments.
• Textbook of Orthopedics: Duke Orthopaedics publication Wheeless’ Textbook of Orthopaedics.
• Guidelines for the Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Disease: A manual on the guidelines for the treatment of sexually transmitted disease.
• Emergency Response Guidebook: The 2008 guidebook for first responders.
• Atlas of Human Anatomy: The Atlas of Human Anatomy textbook is a translated version of the 1841 book "Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen".
• Airway Implications: Textbook of conditions that accompany airway complications.
• Medical Ethics Manual: Six PDF formatted chapters of the medical ethics manual.
• Management of Biological Causalities: The biological casualties handbook.

Bioethics

• The Role of Bioethics: Medical education and the role bioethics plays in decision making.
• Evaluation of Bioethics: The article explores the purpose, history and reliability in bioethics.
• Bioethics and Human Dignity: Gregory W. Rutecki, MD examines ethics in medicine.
• Bioethics in the News: A look at how news and television programs conflict with bioethics and how they can be used in educational discussions.
• Bioethics Cases: Several cases of bioethical issues.

Global Health

• Students for Global Health: This paper explores how medical students can benefit from global health events.
• Global Health Committee: The American Medical Student Associations Global Health Committee initiative to improving health care of all people.
• Global Health Institute: The Duke Global Health Institute focuses on educating students and future leaders on the epidemic of global health problems.
• Strategic Implications of Global Health: This paper examines highly infectious diseases on a global scale.
• Global Health Council: Fact sheet of how United States communities’ health care developments compare with other countries.

History of Medicine

• History of Medicine: Collections of books, journals, photographs that make up the history of medicine.
• Ancient Egypt: The history of medicine in Ancient Egypt.
• Mythical, Homeric, and Pre-Hippocratic Times: A history of medical science.
• Timeline: A timeline of history and Madison Avenue of documents between 1911 and 1958.
• The New Medicine: A timeline of integrative medicine from 3000 BCE until present.
  

Medical Dictionaries

• Pharmacology Glossary: Glossary of pharmacology terms and symbols.
• Medical Dictionary: Medical dictionary for medical terms, diseases, and conditions.
• Medical Words: A glossary of medical words.
• Medical Encyclopedia: A to Z library of diseases, tests, surgeries, and photos.
• Diseases & Treatments: Encyclopedia of diseases and treatments from A to Z.

Case Studies & Patient Simulations   

• Simulation-Based Education: The paper focuses on the benefits of simulation-based education has on patient care.
• Patient Simulation Project: A tutorial, glossary, and demonstration of patient simulation.
• Standardized Patient Simulations: A synopsis of the benefits of patient’s simulations.
• Bioethical Case Study: Case studies of bioethics in medicine.
• Clinical Case Studies: Clinical case studies on musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, reproductive, endocrine, and nervous conditions.

Medical Journals

• Pediatrics: The Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
• The Journal of Immunology: Full articles in current and past publications of online issues.
• The Journal of Infectious Diseases: PDF formats of journal articles of selected articles.
• American Journal of Medicine: Current issue and past issues of the American Journal of Medicine.
• Annals of Internal Medicine: Full versions of early release articles, past, and current issues.