Daniel Schwartz and Jordan Weinstein are two nephrologists from the Division of Nephrology at the University of Toronto who have launched a number of interesting medical education projects recently: QxMD Nephrology for BlackberryA medical calculator for “all MDs using the RIM Blackberry, not just Nephrologists.” They are also developing QxMD Cardiology, QxMD Gastroenterology, QxMD Endocrinology, and […]

More and more teachers and students realize that case-based lessons are very valuable in teaching “real-life” medicine. We did our small share by launching an online case-based curriculum of clinical medicine, ClinicalCases.org, in 2005. There has been a recent surge in the publication of case-based books: Core Clinical Cases in Medicine and Surgery. A Problem-Solving Approach. Blueprints Clinical […]

The Cleveland Clinic Annual Intensive Review of Internal Medicine is in its 19th edition this year and since members of the Section of Hospital Medicine actively participate in the course, we started to think of ways to make it more Web-friendly. The course already has an accompanying book and CD-ROMs which were reviewed very favorably in […]

The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI) has started publishing free podcasts/videocasts from the 2006 Annual Meeting: “Every second week, the College will post a new 30-minute Vodcast (video podcasts) of a key presentation from its 2006 Annual Meeting on-line. Each vodcast will contain the original audio and presentation slides and can be […]

Our case-based curriculum of medicine, Clinical Cases and Images, and the related blog, are gradually being incorporated and linked in the web sites of medical schools around the world: University of California, San Diego, CaliforniaA Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine > Medical LinksCatalog of Clinical Images University of MichiganTaubman Medical LibraryPDA > Information on the Web Feinberg School […]

What is an “educational portfolio”? Let me explain. I am an academic hospitalist at the Cleveland Clinic. The goal of our section is to be the best academic hospitalist group in country. “Academic” means that we devote a significant amount of our time to research and teaching. This time has to be accounted for and for […]