TEACH Cards | UW Family Medicine and Community Health

TEACH Cards (Teaching Evidence-based medicine And Clinical topics in the Hospital) is an inpatient educational tool created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Family Medicine Residency Program in 2013. TEACH Cards allows for efficient 5-10 minute teaching sessions on busy inpatient medicine services and promotes two curricular goals: to enhance core clinical knowledge and to improve patient-centered evidence-based medicine skills. There are 50 different cards, each covering a different clinical topic. Topics were selected from the AAFP Recommended Curricular Guidelines for Family Practice Residents for Care of the Critically Ill Adult.

Practice of Medicine

The following sites explain aspects of history-taking and physical examination.
Practice of Medicine
Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine

Using the Internet in Educating Science & Medicine

The Virtual Labs Series produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute were recognized as the best multimedia products designed to use the Internet to educate about science and technology. Below are links to the labs


The Cardiology Lab
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
The focus of this lab is on heritable diseases of the heart. You are cast here as a virtual intern to accompany a doctor examining three different patients. Each patient is examined using more than one diagnostic tool, and at each stage, the doctor will invite you to examine the patient yourself and ask for your opinion.

The Neurophysiology Lab
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
Record electrical activities of individual neurons while you deliver mechanical stimulus to the attached skin. Inject fluorescent dyes into the neurons to visualize their morphology. Identify the neurons based on the morphology and the response to stimuli, comparing them to previously published results.

The Immunology Lab
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
Components of the immune system called antibodies are found in the liquid portion of blood and help protect the body from harm. Antibodies can also be used outside the body in a laboratory-based assay to help diagnose disease caused by malfunctions of the immune system or by infections. This virtual laboratory will demonstrate how such a test, termed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), is carried out and show some of the key experimental problems that may be encountered.

"e-medicine.com" learning and resources centers

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