Delicious Interactive MedCases Account

We have set up a Delicious account to keep track of links to Interactive Case Studies in Medicine on the Web. If you have a Delicious account, you may recommend a link by simply adding in the tag section for:InteractiveMedCases this will send the link directly to our inbox and we can add it to the Delicious account.

Here is the link to our Delicious Page: InteractiveMedCases.


If you have not ever used Delicious to to organize links, it is a very useful service that allows you to access your links in a Web based environment. Just go to their homepage to learn more about them: Delicious Home.

Pub Med Search for "Interactive Tutorial"

Recently in 2008 the National Library of Medicine added the term "Interactive Tutorial" as a publication type to its MeSH vocabulary. This is very helpful because now the indexers at the National Library of Medicine can begin to add this term to appropriate information.

Provided here is a link to the Pub Med MeSH search for Interactive Tutorial. Simply follow this link to view the latest medical literature that has been indexed as an interactive tutorial.

National Diabetes Education Initiative

The National Diabetes Education Initiative is one of the leading, multifaceted education programs designed to provide education to physicians of multiple specialties in the area of diabetes treatment. Follow the link to their About Us page to learn more about the mission and goals of the NDEI.

Their Interactive Case Studies section offers a variety of case studies dealing with a demographically diverse patient population. The case studies are considered accredited education and you may earn PRA Category 1 credits for completing them.

Physicians' Education Resource (PER)

Physicians' Education Resource (PER) specializes in offering accredited medical education to physicians who practice in the field of oncology. They have a section devoted to offering interactive case studies that focus on the diagnosis and treatment of cancers and related disorders. Here is a link to PER's interactive case study offerings.

If you are interested in reading more about PER and their educational focus and scope please click here to read the PER overview.

MedCases

MedCases is one of the leaders in providing interactive, case based, medcical education. They have a strong foundation in building their interactive case studies within the principles and framework of evidence based medicine. Here is a more detailed description of MedCases Mission and Philosophy.

Here is a description of MedCases policies and offerings in the area of accredited medical education.

This MedCases link takes you to demo of one of their intractive, case based, treatment sessions. You will need to sign in and create a free account. After you sign in, you will notice in the top left corner a link to "My MedCases Tutorial" which will walk you through a detailed description of how to use their system.

Interactive Case Studies in Medicine - A Guide

Interactive training materials are becoming more popular and useful for teaching in the fields of medicine and medical education. Advances in technology have allowed physicians to use their computers as important training tools for practicing clinical diagnosis, treatment, and patient management. One of the more popular uses of interactive training materials in medicine is the interactive case study. The interactive case study presents the physician with a "patient treatment scenario" in which the physician is given information relating to a "hypothetical patient" and must work through the interactive program to successfully treat the patient. There are many different sources on the Internet for accessing interactive case studies in medicine. The purpose of this blog is to serve as a guide to physicians where they can go to find links to quality interactive case studies along with information related to best practices for working with an interactive case study. This blog will also provide links to peer reviewed literature abstracts of interactive case studies in the medical field. We have also set up a Delicious account for physicinas to reccomend links to their favorite interactive case studies on the web.