Medical Education Resources

• Medical Spanish for Residents (This was developed by former peds residents with assistance from the Office of Education)

Additional Resources

• Kahoot: a game based learning platform. Great tool to engage your learners.
• Poll Everywhere: Audience participation through mobile device
• Video conferencing tools
  • Skype for business (All UAMS employees have access to this tool)
  • Zoom for video and web conferencing
• Nearpod: Create interactive lessons with Nearpod. Students can access your lessons on their phones and add notes to them.
• Mindmapping: A great tool for case discussions
• Remind: Communication Tool
• Khan Academy Health and Medicine
• MyStudyLife: Digital Planner
• Softchalk: Create interactive learning content. (UAMS has a campus-wide license. Contact us for more information)
• Audacity: Audacity is an audio-capturing tool
• Articulate: Articulate is a desktop application that integrates with PowerPoint to add narration, callouts and other Flash media. (We have a license. Contact us for more information)
• SurveyMonkey: online survey tool (We have a license to create more than 10 questions)
• Blackboard:  virtual learning environment and course management system (login with your UAMS username and password)

Active Learning Strategies

• Team based learning (TBL)
• The Minute Paper
• Not another boring lecture: Engaging learning with active learning techniques (Research paper)
• A tool for measuring Active Learning in the classroom. (Research Paper)
• 101 Interactive Techniques you can use with your learners
• 7 Principles for Good Teaching Practice

Publishing Educational Scholarship

• MedEd Portal
• Interlibrary Loans
• Refworks (Bibliography tool)
  • RefMobile (RefWorks on your mobile device)
• CiteThisForMe: Bibliographic citation tool
• Zotero: Tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources
• Educational journals

Intramural Educational Grants

• Innovations in Pediatric Education (Intramural grant) due in April. Contact Office of Education for assistance