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Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Bates Visual Guide This link opens in a new window
Clinical skills videos featuring head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques with an emphasis on clinical accuracy and patient care; Also has OSCE clinical reasoning modules; Each volume, broken into chapters.

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JAMA Patient Information
Concise topic summaries for patients from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Allows free access, but must create a free account.
Traveler's Health (CDC)
Health recommendations for US residents who are planning to travel abroad. includes diseases travelers should be most concerned about and what types of precautions (vaccinations, sanitation recommendations, etc.) need to be taken either before or during their travel.

Access Medicine This link opens in a new window
Has a tab "patient education" for all topics A-Z, with handouts that can be printed and used to inform about the cause diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
Once your topic is selected, there's a tab for 'patient' that when selected, displays subtopics and possible patient educational material.

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Health Data

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Use the A-Z list- AWESOME amount of data.
Center for Disease Control- EZ Stats
Most commonly accessed stats
International Health Stats
OECD- Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development: infant death, disease, dental health, cancer, morbidity, and more.
More International Stats- World Health Org.
The WHO is "the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends." Hence: Authoritative.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Run by the CDC, this has info on A-Z topics and more.
Unicef Statistics: Worldwide
Unicef is advocate for children and health, so topics here align: child mortality rates, nutrition, health, education, demographics, protection, disparities and much more. Can access their yearly publication: The State of the World’s Children.
Health Data Sets
Over 3,000 datasets. This information includes clinical care provider quality information, nationwide health service provider directories, databases of the latest medical and scientific knowledge, consumer product data, community health performance information, government spending data and much more.
Cancer Facts and Figures
A unique feature of these publications is their projections of the number of cancer cases and deaths expected in each state and in the nation in the current year. Each edition of Cancer Facts & Figures includes a Special Section of in-depth focus on a specific cancer or group of cancers.