Audio summaries of selected Reviews from The Cochrane Library

Weekly Audio Commentary for JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, by Editor-in-Chief Dr Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH

Each month, host Tom Burke, associate dean for Public Health Practice and Training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, takes listeners to the frontlines of public health to meet interesting people working in the field.

Nature publishing group releases regular podcasts on a variety of topics including systems biology, genetics, neuroscience and stem cells. There is also a podcast related to items covered in their weekly journal Nature.

NEJM offers two different types of audio podcasts – interviews with authors of studies published in the journal and a weekly audio summary of the contents of the most recent issue.

Weekly podcasts are provided on a number of topics such as grand rounds from Harrison's Online, Fitzpatrick's case of the month, and a variety of updates for books such as Hursts' The Heart and Williams' Obstetrics. On-campus access only.

Video modules present examination and assessment of patients.

An online, interactive, detailed 3D model of human anatomy

Streaming videos show peripheral venous access, arterial blood gas sampling, phlebotomy/venous blood sampling, urinary catheterization (male and female), thyroid status assessment, and the gross anatomy of the head and neck and the pelvis and perineum.

Over 23,000 skin disease photos

The University of Nebraska's Medical Center has put together this collection of links to free medical images on the web.

In 2009, The Canadian Cochrane Centre launched the first webinar series within the Cochrane Collaboration. Thanks to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization for providing the Blackboard CollaborateTM platform to make this possible. Enjoy the Cochrane Canada Live recordings on the PAHO YouTube page.