OER by Discipline: Allied Health and Nursing

This peer reviewed e-book is a must-read for nurses and other health professionals who strive to teach with creativity and excellence in clinical settings. Each chapter presents current evidence informed educational practice knowledge. Each topic is also presented with text boxes describing ‘Creative Strategies’ that clinical teachers from across Canada have successfully implemented.

Medical Terminology for Healthcare Professions is an Open Educational Resource (OER) that focuses on breaking down, pronouncing, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of anatomy and physiology. This resource is targeted for Healthcare Administration, Health Sciences, and Pre-Professional students.

Get a crash course in radiologic technology from fellow students on a quest for knowledge. The videos on this page will ​give you an introduction to medical imaging and radiation therapy.

Teaching files from the University of Washington's Department of Radiology. Includes Online Musculoskeletal Radiology Book, Breast Imaging Teaching Files, Neuroradiology Teaching Files, Liver Atlas, Muscle Atlas, and Nuclear Medicine Lectures. Freely available to view and link to

The imagery showcased in the PHIL is historic in nature; the contents depicted, though appropriate at the time a photograph was captured, may no longer be appropriate in the context of the current time period, and is not to be viewed as a source of the most current public health information.

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.

MedPix® is a free open-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images. Our primary target audience includes physicians and nurses, allied health professionals, medical students, nursing students and others interested in medical knowledge.

Building a Medical Terminology Foundation is an OER that focuses on breaking down medical terms into their word parts, pronouncing medical terms, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of introductory anatomy and physiology. This resource is targeted for health office administration and health services students in the first year of their college programs.

The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) invites users to explore its comprehensive and continually growing site. This rich, multi-layered, digital collective, initiated in 2009 by the Open Knowledge Commons, provides access to seven centuries of quality medical history resources.

Watch health videos on topics such as anatomy, body systems, and surgical procedures. Test your health knowledge with quizzes. Check your health with calculators and questionnaires.

Assess your health with interactive tools such as calculators, quizzes, and questionnaires. You can check your risk for heart disease, calculate your ideal weight and body mass, find out how many calories your favorite exercise burns, and more.

These eight videos depict clinical interactions between health care providers and Spanish-speaking patients. They are designed as both a Spanish language practice tool and as case studies for discussion of critical issues and cultural nuances that can arise in a clinical setting. Dialogue is all in Spanish; patients are all portrayed by native speakers, and health care providers by native speakers and actors with a broad range of Spanish proficiency. The videos range from about 1 minute to 3.5 minutes in length, and for each scenario there is also a version with English subtitles.

MedEdPORTAL is a MEDLINE-indexed, open-access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). MedEdPORTAL publications are stand-alone, complete teaching or learning modules that have been implemented and evaluated with physician trainees or practitioners.

Interactive tutorials in the area of nursing. You will find 25 free learning objects that can help you learn, study, or teach Nursing

There are playlists for clinical skills, medical history taking, and radiography among other topics.

This resource is a downloadable excel.

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