43 School of Medicine
Anesthesiology (ANE)
No suggested OER at this time.
Cardio-Respiratory Systems (CTS)
No suggested OER at this time.
Clinical Rotation (CLI)
Diversity and Difference in Communication∗
OpenLearn Diversity & Difference in Communication (The Open University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This text explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested for:
All Clinical Rotations
Gynecological Assessment∗ 
Katherine Trip and Jean Wilson (University of Toronto)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Health professional programs such as nursing and medicine have historically had difficulty securing assessment experiences such as gynecological examinations. Decreased availability of preceptors and increased transitions to virtual care has recently made learning associated with this important topic even more difficult to obtain. To help better prepare health care providers, we have developed four online gynecological assessment learning modules in combination with virtual knowledge checks that will help articulate an approach, demonstrate techniques of examination, identify and diagnose disorders, and develop an evidence-based plan.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: Videos and interactive exercises
Suggested for:
CLI 3106 Obstetrics and Gynecology
LGBTQ+ Healthcare: Your Guide to Building an Inclusive Practice∗
Selinda Berg, Scott Cowan, and Ashlyne O’Neil (University of Windsor)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The LGBTQ+ community is diverse. While L, G, B, T, and Q are usually tied together as a single homogeneous entity, each letter represents a wide range of people of different races, ethnicities, ages, socioeconomic statuses and identities (National LGBT Health Education Centre, 2019). Unfortunately, experiences of stigma and discrimination are a common theme that transcends across the entire LGBTQ+ community. While discrimination exists across the community, the manifestations of oppression and discrimination are not a singular occurrence or experience. One area in which there is a long history of discrimination and lack of awareness is within the health care sector.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: Cases, glossary, and interactive exercises
Suggested for:
All Clinical Rotations
Safe Pharmacy Simulation∗
Pat Marten-Daniel, Paula Mastrilli, Darshnee Ramnaraign and Sheila Mae Sia (George Brown College)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The Safe Pharmacy Simulation game is an open educational resource (OER) developed by a team of interprofessional educators to promote employment integration of internationally educated health professionals by building their work readiness skills. It provides learners of any profession working in a medication dispensing setting with opportunities to develop and apply safety-focused best practices for processing and dispensing medications.
Game players are invited to make decisions in a realistic work situation and encouraged to try different approaches. Feedback is provided to promote analysis of players’ actions and decisions. Players are encouraged to self-reflect and debrief at the end of the game to further enhance their learning. This resource is also available in French.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and H5P
Suggested for:
CLI 2101 Transition to Clerkship Part 1
TransEd∗
McMaster University Department of Family Medicine and Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, and University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)
TransEd is an online learning platform targeted at providing post-secondary healthcare students with tools to improve comfort and competence in transgender care. TransEd’s unique features include:
- Modular design: Learners can complete any or all of TransEd’s 8 sections (Introduction, The Healthcare Landscape, Clinical Best Practices, Assessment, Psychosocial Health, Medication, Surgical & Resources). Users can pick topics that are most relevant to them while having the convenience of learning at their own pace and in their own environment. Each section includes multiple choice questions to assess learning with explanations to clarify any misunderstandings.
- Lived Experience: Interviews with trans men and women talking about their interactions and experiences with the healthcare system as well as clips from healthcare providers specializing in trans care.
- Best Practices: Comprehensive guidelines and important considerations for providing optimal care to trans patients, from how to create welcoming spaces to understanding transition options.
For educators we’ve also created a Facilitators Guide which offers additional content and videos along with suggestions for blended learning activities. Our goal is to make it easy for you to integrate TransEd into existing curricula incorporating those components that have most benefit for your learners.
Format: Online (registration required)
Suggested for:
All Clinical Rotations
Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals – 1st Canadian Edition∗
Oona St-Amant, Jennifer Lapum, and Vinita Dubey (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices in vaccine delivery in Canada. This resource is designed for students in post-secondary health profession programs, including nursing. It may also be useful for graduate students and healthcare providers. This textbook provides information related to clinical practice, including the administration of vaccine, and communication with clients.
Format: Pressbooks webbook
Suggested for
CLI 2101 Transition to Clerkship Part 1
Epidemiology and Public Health (EPI)
Foundations of Epidemiology
Marit L. Bovbjerg (Oregon State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Foundations of Epidemiology is an open access, introductory epidemiology text intended for students and practitioners in public or allied health fields. It covers epidemiologic thinking, causality, incidence and prevalence, public health surveillance, epidemiologic study designs and why we care about which one is used, measures of association, random error and bias, confounding and effect modification, and screening. Concepts are illustrated with numerous examples drawn from contemporary and historical public health issues.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Suggested for:
EPI 5240 Epidemiology I: Introductory Epidemiology
EPI 5241 Epidemiology II: Advanced Epidemiology
Family Medicine (FAM)
No suggested OER at this time.
Gastroenteritis (GAE)
No suggested OER at this time.
General Surgery (GSU)
No suggested OER at this time.
Human and Molecular Genetics (HMG)
No suggested OER at this time.
Medicine (MED)
Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions∗
Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry (Athabasca University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)
For healthcare professionals, clinical education is foundational to the learning process. However, balancing safe patient care with supportive learning opportunities for students can be challenging for instructors and the complex social context of clinical learning environments makes intentional teaching approaches essential. Clinical instructors require advanced teaching knowledge and skills as learners are often carrying out interventions on real people in unpredictable environments. Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions is an indispensable guide for educators in the health professions. Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the importance of personal philosophies, resilience, and professional socialization while evaluating the current practices in clinical learning environments from technology to assessment and evaluation. This book provides instructors with the tools to influence both student success and the quality of care provided by future practitioners. (Description from AU Press)
Formats: PDF and online (Manifold)
Suggested for:
MED 6502 Enseigner en milieu clinique
MED 6531 Enseigner en santé (partie 1)
MED 6532 Enseigner en santé (partie 2)
Diversity and Difference in Communication∗
OpenLearn Diversity & Difference in Communication (The Open University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This text explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested for:
MED 1302 Physician Skills Development (Part 1)
LGBTQ+ Healthcare: Your Guide to Building an Inclusive Practice∗
Selinda Berg, Scott Cowan, and Ashlyne O’Neil (University of Windsor)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The LGBTQ+ community is diverse. While L, G, B, T, and Q are usually tied together as a single homogeneous entity, each letter represents a wide range of people of different races, ethnicities, ages, socioeconomic statuses and identities (National LGBT Health Education Centre, 2019). Unfortunately, experiences of stigma and discrimination are a common theme that transcends across the entire LGBTQ+ community. While discrimination exists across the community, the manifestations of oppression and discrimination are not a singular occurrence or experience. One area in which there is a long history of discrimination and lack of awareness is within the health care sector.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Includes: Cases, glossary, and interactive exercises
Suggested for:
MED 1200 Introduction Unit to the Profession
TransEd∗
McMaster University Department of Family Medicine and Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, and University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: assigning sections is permitted, but adaptations are not allowed without permission)
TransEd is an online learning platform targeted at providing post-secondary healthcare students with tools to improve comfort and competence in transgender care. TransEd’s unique features include:
- Modular design: Learners can complete any or all of TransEd’s 8 sections (Introduction, The Healthcare Landscape, Clinical Best Practices, Assessment, Psychosocial Health, Medication, Surgical & Resources). Users can pick topics that are most relevant to them while having the convenience of learning at their own pace and in their own environment. Each section includes multiple choice questions to assess learning with explanations to clarify any misunderstandings.
- Lived Experience: Interviews with trans men and women talking about their interactions and experiences with the healthcare system as well as clips from healthcare providers specializing in trans care.
- Best Practices: Comprehensive guidelines and important considerations for providing optimal care to trans patients, from how to create welcoming spaces to understanding transition options.
For educators we’ve also created a Facilitators Guide which offers additional content and videos along with suggestions for blended learning activities. Our goal is to make it easy for you to integrate TransEd into existing curricula incorporating those components that have most benefit for your learners.
Format: Online (registration required)
Suggested for:
MED 1302 Physician Skills Development (Part 1)
Medicine (PCS)
No suggested OER at this time.
Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBG)
No suggested OER at this time.
Ophthamology (OPH)
No suggested OER at this time.
Orthopaedic Pathology (ORT)
No suggested OER at this time.
Pathology and Experimental Medicine (PME)
No suggested OER at this time.
Pediatrics (PAE)
No suggested OER at this time.
Physiology (PHS)
Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students
Andrew Binks (Virginia Tech)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of common cardiovascular diseases, disorders and pathologies. This text is designed for a course pre-clinical undergraduate medical curriculum and it is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) content guidelines. The text is meant to provide the essential information from these content areas in a concise format that would allow learner preparation to engage in an active classroom. Clinical correlates and additional application of content is intended to be provided in the classroom experience. The text assumes that the students will have an understanding of basic cardiovascular physiology that will be helpful to understand the content presented here. This resource should be assistive to the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation given the material is presented in a succinct manner, with a focus on high-yield concepts.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, EPUB, and LibreTexts
Suggested for:
PHS 4100 Human Physiology and Mechanism of Disease
Physiology
Charles Asbury, Fred Rieke, Bertil Hille, Mark Bothwell, and John Tuthill (University of Washington)
2023
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This open textbook covers the following topics: Cytoskeleton, molecular motors, and cell motility; Cell membranes and transport; G protein coupled receptors; Receptor tyrosine kinases and nuclear hormone receptors; Membrane potentials; Action potential, threshold, refractory period; Action potential propagation; Synapses and neurotransmitter receptors; Sensory receptors; Autonomic nervous system physiology; Nociception and spinal reflexes; and Muscle physiology.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Includes: videos, H5P activities, review questions, practice questions
Suggested for:
PHS 1107 Physiology I
Pulmonary Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students
Andrew Binks (Virginia Tech)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Pulmonary Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of pulmonary pathophysiology. This text is designed for a pre-clinical undergraduate medical curriculum and is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) content guidelines. The text is meant to provide the essential information in a concise format that would allow learner preparation to engage in an active classroom. Clinical correlates and additional application of content is intended to be provided in the classroom experience. The text assumes that the students will have an understanding of basic pulmonary physiology that will be helpful to understand the content presented here. This resource should be assistive to the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation given the material is presented in a succinct manner, with a focus on high-yield concepts.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, EPUB, and LibreTexts
Suggested for:
PHS 4100 Human Physiology and Mechanism of Disease
Pulmonary Physiology for Pre-Clinical Students
Andrew Binks (Virginia Tech)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Pulmonary Physiology for Pre-Clinical Students is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of pulmonary physiology. This text is designed for a pre-clinical medical curriculum and is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) content guidelines. The text is meant to provide the essential information in a concise format that would allow learner preparation to engage in an active classroom. Clinical correlates and additional application of content is intended to be provided in the classroom experience. This resource should be assistive to the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation given the material is presented in a succinct manner, with a focus on high-yield concepts.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, EPUB, and LibreTexts
Suggested for:
PHS 4100 Human Physiology and Mechanism of Disease
Population Health Risk Assessment and Management (PHR)
No suggested OER at this time.
Psychiatry (PCT)
No suggested OER at this time.
Radiology (RAD)
No suggested OER at this time.
Urology (URO)
No suggested OER at this time.
