Clinical Teaching & Learning Resources
Clinical Skills
PHYSICAL EXAMS
POCUS
STANDFORD 25 has many other youtube tutorials for exam skills, POCUS that you can find on their youtube channel.
EKG
Strong Medicine: Most Common EKG Patterns
Grand Rounds Collection: Columbia Medicine
https://vimeo.com/showcase/11072722
Lifelong Learning
Life Long Learning
NEJM Journal Watch (subscription) reviews over 250 scientific and medical journals to present important clinical research findings and insightful commentary. Has a general medicine version, plus many specialties. Published twice a month and includes optional email updates and CME.
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics (subscription): monthly summaries of new medications, presents evidence on comparative efficacy and price with existing agents, also reviews all medications for various conditions on a regular basis.
Essential Evidence Plus (the people that do POEMs) which is a daily critical analysis of an article or guideline using standard analysis techniques. These analyses tend to be primary care oriented. It costs around $85 per year for an individual.
Family Medicine Study Guide ($13.99) non-profit portable curriculum that includes 75 original case studies, 363 short answer questions, 150 rapid fire questions, 50 "Quick Pix" dermatology cases with 152 related questions and 2hrs 26mins 56 secs of Mini-Podcasts to help motivate, guide and assist you in your studying.
2-minute medicine (free): quick summaries of the latest studies. They provide a few line summary with a longer version if you click the links. 2 min medicine sends daily emails.
Dr. Desai's collection of articles: https://sites.google.com/view/cumcnyp-fm/home
Point of Care EBM databases
Point of Care Resources
Can be accessed from any hospital computer:
Dynamed (more frequently updated than Uptodate with less pharmaceutical company support, and less expert opinion narratives). Also has an app.
UptoDate is very easy to access, and tracks time reading articles for CME credit. Also has an app.
Visual dx: “web-based clinical decision support system proven to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions”
PEPID: focuses on primary care, and cites evidence for recommendations from FPIN. It has useful calculators, pill identifiers, and a lab test reference tool. “I find it to be more concise than Up to Date”. ($299 per year)
Choosing Wisely from ABIM app and website: “helping choose care that is supported by evidence, not duplicative of other tests or procedures already received, free from harm, and truly necessary”. Also has an app.
Point of care apps
General:
Diagnosaurus: “quick-reference tool helps healthcare professionals perform differential diagnosis with speed and confidence at the point of care”
free through columbia ACCESS library along with many other resources/text books: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio14974278
APP costs ~$5
AHRQ EPS for prevention guidelines https://epss.ahrq.gov/PDA/index.jsp
Shots immunization app https://www.aafp.org/patient-care/public-health/immunizations/shots-app.html
Aspirin Guide app http://www.aspiringuide.com/nav/1 (these guidelines are changing!)
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s About Herbs app and website for looking up herbs https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/diagnosis-treatment/symptom-management/integrative-medicine/herbs/herbs-botanicals-other-products-faqs
Good Rx https://www.goodrx.com/ helps find affordable meds for uninsured pts
MDCalc
Epocrates
Medscape
Women’s Health:
OB Dating wheel (many options)
Contraception Point of Care app https://www.reproductiveaccess.org/home/contraception-point-of-care-app/
CDCs medical eligibility for contraception app
ASCCP ($10) http://www.asccp.org/asccp-guidelines
Lactmed: meds in breastfeeding: https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/lactmed.htm
Urgent OB by Brancel
Point of Care Apps
Point of care apps
General:
Diagnosaurus: “quick-reference tool helps healthcare professionals perform differential diagnosis with speed and confidence at the point of care”
free through columbia ACCESS library along with many other resources/text books: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio14974278
APP costs ~$5
AHRQ EPS for prevention guidelines https://epss.ahrq.gov/PDA/index.jsp
Shots immunization app https://www.aafp.org/patient-care/public-health/immunizations/shots-app.html
Aspirin Guide app http://www.aspiringuide.com/nav/1 (these guidelines are changing!)
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s About Herbs app and website for looking up herbs https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/diagnosis-treatment/symptom-management/integrative-medicine/herbs/herbs-botanicals-other-products-faqs
Good Rx https://www.goodrx.com/ helps find affordable meds for uninsured pts
MDCalc
Epocrates
Medscape
Women’s Health:
OB Dating wheel (many options)
Contraception Point of Care app https://www.reproductiveaccess.org/home/contraception-point-of-care-app/
CDCs medical eligibility for contraception app
ASCCP ($10) http://www.asccp.org/asccp-guidelines
Lactmed: meds in breastfeeding: https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/lactmed.htm
Urgent OB by Brancel
Podcasts
PRIMARY CARE:
AAFP podcast (free) The AFP Podcast is a discussion of the key evidence-based learning points from each issue of American Family Physician (AFP).
Primary Care RAP by Hippo Entertainment https://www.hippoed.com/pc/rap/ is entertaining and relevant, 3 hour monthly podcasts, CME offered, ($395/yr or $95/yr for residents, 1 hr/month free)
Review of Systems (free): the podcast of the Harvard Center for Primary Care and “covers a broad range of topics in primary care and health care transformation.”
INTERNAL MEDICINE
Curbsiders Internal Medicine (free): an Internal Medicine Podcast featuring three board-certified Internists as they interview (“curbside”) the experts to provide listeners with clinical pearls and practice-changing knowledge.
Louisville Lectures: from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, focuses on Hospitalist and Internal Medicine
Core IM Podcast: "Your source for digestible internal medicine content"
OB/GYN
Green Journal podcast published by Obstetrics & Gynecology (the Green Journal), the official publication of the ACOG
PEDIATRICS
PediaCast CME - a pediatrics podcast from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio
Peds Soup - Core topics in pediatrics
OTHER
Greyscale: “takes a look at the not-so-clear areas of medicine by sharing physicians' own difficult encounters”. Produced by a faculty member at Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency.
Sickboy Podcast is about managing and humanizing chronic disease. In the words of the creators: “hilarious, ridiculously insightful and absolutely determined to break down the stigma associated with illness and disease”
Explore the Space - "Examining the interface between healthcare & society, with thought leaders from across the spectrum"
St. Emlyn's Virtual Hospital podcast - topics in emergency and critical care
Life Long Learning
NEJM Journal Watch (subscription) reviews over 250 scientific and medical journals to present important clinical research findings and insightful commentary. Has a general medicine version, plus many specialties. Published twice a month and includes optional email updates and CME.
Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics (subscription): monthly summaries of new medications, presents evidence on comparative efficacy and price with existing agents, also reviews all medications for various conditions on a regular basis.
Essential Evidence Plus (the people that do POEMs) which is a daily critical analysis of an article or guideline using standard analysis techniques. These analyses tend to be primary care oriented. It costs around $85 per year for an individual.
Family Medicine Study Guide ($13.99) non-profit portable curriculum that includes 75 original case studies, 363 short answer questions, 150 rapid fire questions, 50 "Quick Pix" dermatology cases with 152 related questions and 2hrs 26mins 56 secs of Mini-Podcasts to help motivate, guide and assist you in your studying.
2-minute medicine (free): quick summaries of the latest studies. They provide a few line summary with a longer version if you click the links. 2 min medicine sends daily emails.
Test Prep
AAFP family medicine practice boards questions. It is free for members: https://www.aafp.org/cme/cme-topic/all/bd-review-questions.html
Podcasts
Podcasts
PRIMARY CARE:
AAFP podcast (free) The AFP Podcast is a discussion of the key evidence-based learning points from each issue of American Family Physician (AFP).
Primary Care RAP by Hippo Entertainment https://www.hippoed.com/pc/rap/ is entertaining and relevant, 3 hour monthly podcasts, CME offered, ($395/yr or $95/yr for residents, 1 hr/month free)
Review of Systems (free): the podcast of the Harvard Center for Primary Care and “covers a broad range of topics in primary care and health care transformation.”
INTERNAL MEDICINE
Curbsiders Internal Medicine (free): an Internal Medicine Podcast featuring three board-certified Internists as they interview (“curbside”) the experts to provide listeners with clinical pearls and practice-changing knowledge.
Louisville Lectures: from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, focuses on Hospitalist and Internal Medicine
Core IM Podcast: "Your source for digestible internal medicine content"
OB/GYN
Green Journal podcast published by Obstetrics & Gynecology (the Green Journal), the official publication of the ACOG
PEDIATRICS
PediaCast CME - a pediatrics podcast from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio
Peds Soup - Core topics in pediatrics
OTHER
Greyscale: “takes a look at the not-so-clear areas of medicine by sharing physicians' own difficult encounters”. Produced by a faculty member at Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency.
Sickboy Podcast is about managing and humanizing chronic disease. In the words of the creators: “hilarious, ridiculously insightful and absolutely determined to break down the stigma associated with illness and disease”
Explore the Space - "Examining the interface between healthcare & society, with thought leaders from across the spectrum"
St. Emlyn's Virtual Hospital podcast - topics in emergency and critical care
Procedures
5 Minute OB/GYN Procedure Tutorials
Medscape Clinical Procedures (free account)
NEJM Procedure Video Library (access via Columbia libraries)
Proceduralist.org (POCUS and tutorials for several hospital procedures)
Women's Health Point of Care Resources
Women’s Health:
OB Dating wheel (many options)
Contraception Point of Care app https://www.reproductiveaccess.org/home/contraception-point-of-care-app/
CDCs medical eligibility for contraception app
ASCCP ($10) http://www.asccp.org/asccp-guidelines
Lactmed: meds in breastfeeding: https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/lactmed.htm
Urgent OB by Brancel
Test Taking/Prep
Test Prep
AAFP family medicine practice boards questions. It is free for members: https://www.aafp.org/cme/cme-topic/all/bd-review-questions.html
Therapist Aid: Mental Health Resources
Medical Aid in Dying Resources
https://www.acamaid.org/ce-master/
The Good Death Society Blog has many short, reader-friendly articles on virtually all aspects of the desire for a "Good Death." https://www.thegooddeathsocietyblog.net/