Here is by no means an exhaustive list of other great online and mobile Medical Education platforms. Feel free to suggest other useful sites and apps:
Free:
GoogleFOAM – A custom Google search engine specific to Free Open Access Medical Education
Life in the Fast Lane – Where it all started. Up to date critical care links, blogs and articles.
FOAMed for GP – As you see it.. FOAM for General Practice
Royal Childrens Hospital – Free, concise and up to date paediatric clinical practice guidelines from the Melbourne RCH.
NICE – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines are a comprehensive United Kingdom based clinical resource
NNT – A traffic-light style framework and rating system to evaluate diagnostics and therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms
Onthewards – An excellent medical education website from an organisation in New South Wales targeted at pre-vocational junior doctors
Radiology Assistant – Non profit organisation created by a Dutch radiologist for free open access case-based radiology
Not Free:
PEMsoft – Highly detailed, practical, point-of-care paediatric reference to which your department may or may not already be subscribed
Up to Date – Comprehensive, costly, but highly valuable evidence based clinical decision support resource
Mobile Apps:
Frank Shann – We used to carry this little drug dose book around in our pockets.. now it’s available on our phones
Oxford Handbook – That handy little book of clinical specialties as an app
Ortho Traumapedia – A well illustrated orthopaedic reference
MDCalc – A medical calculator for hand held devices
