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On the Web
- U-Write Patient Education Handouts - Provides links to the major cardiology, orthopedic, and pulmonary patient education providers. It also shows practices how to create their own custom patient education handouts, on a budget.
- JAMA's Patient Education Pages - The full text of patient education pages from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Med Help International - The Virtual Medical Center for Patients - Med Help provides patient medical information via our virtual medical center. Site includes: the largest patient medical library on the Net, Ask-The-Doctor Forums, medical news, and patient networking.
- The Patient Education Institute - Offering software and hardware services to healthcare institutions interested in implementing interactive health communication systems for patient education.
- Washington State Medical Association: Patient Brochures - Patient brochures on a variety of health and social topics available online or free by mail to organizations and Washington state hospitals or clinics.
- National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE) - Designed to help consumers make sound decisions about the use of medicines, and to stimulate and improve communication between consumers and health care professionals by developing programs, providing educational kits, and offering guidelines, tips, and resources.
- Be MedWise - A public education initiative by the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE) to promote safe and appropriate use of over-the-counter medicines.
- Nursing Education - Master's program that prepares students to be a nurse educator in a variety of settings including higher education, vocational education, staff development, and patient education.
- Health Library Reading Room - Free full-text online health books for patient education.
- Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati - Patient education information written by the nurses and physicians at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati.
Wikipedia Articles
- Patient education - Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status.Education providers may include: physicians, nurses, psychologists, advocacy groups, special interest groups, and pharmaceutical companies.
- Simulated patient - A simulated patient or standardized patient (SP) (also known as a patient instructor), in health care, is an individual who is trained to act as a real patient in order to simulate a set of symptoms or problems. Simulated patients have been successfully used in medical education, evaluation, and research.
- NHS Education for Scotland - NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is a Special Health Board created in 2002. Its role is to help provide better patient care by designing, commissioning, quality assuring and, where appropriate, providing education, training and lifelong learning for the NHS workforce in Scotland.
- Grand rounds - A ritual of medical education, consisting of presenting the medical problems and treatment of a particular patient to an audience consisting of doctors, residents, and medical students. The patient is usually present for the presentation and may answer questions.
- American Thoracic Society - American Thoracic Society (ATS ), established in 1905, is an independently incorporated, international, educational and scientific society, serving its 18,000 members world-wide who are dedicated in respiratory and critical care medicine. The Society aims to help to prevent and fight respiratory disease by promoting research, education, patient care, and advocacy, ultimately to decrease morbidity and mortality from respiratory diseases.