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| Allogeneic Transplant Protocols | | Allogeneic Blood & MarrowTransplant Program, CPMC | | This site includes an illustrated online essay that describes the science behend allogenic blood and marrow transplants. |
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| Columbia University Medlearn | | College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Curriculum Design Studio | | Excellent teaching tool for anatomy students. The tools use Flash animation to illustrate the skull, eye, and brain, as well as pathology. |
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| Epiville: Epidemiology Training Environment | | Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning | | Students play the role of epidemiologists, gathering facts and deciding actions to curb an outbreak that has struck the fictitious town of "Epiville". The simulation uses digital video newscasts and interviews and municipal Web sites to provide information about commerce and diseases in an attempt to mirror real-life situations. Three different simulations map onto three different types of epidemiology study designs -- case control, ecological, and cohort studies. Interactive quizes enhance this resource. |
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| | Earth Institute at Columbia University | | Easily searchable by location, subject, project leader, program type, and funding source, this directory lists worldwide public-health projects and programs involving Columbia University. |
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| Go Ask Alice! | | Alice! Columbia University's Health Education Program | | Go Ask Alice! is Columbia's health question and answer Internet service, which works to increase access to, and use of, health information by providing factual, in-depth, straight-forward, and nonjudgmental information to assist readers' decision-making about their physical, sexual, and emotional health. Topics include relationships, fitness and nutrition, alcohol, nicotine, and drugs. |
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| | Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons | | This animation, part of The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Guide to Breast Care, illustrates the three phases of breast self-examination. Karen Karen Schmitt, director of Columbia's Breast Screening Health Partnership, explains each phase in detail |
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| HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies | | New York State Psychiatric Institute | | A well designed site which contains details of the research projects conducted at this center and the outcomes and implications of these projects. |
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| | Columbia University | | The International Programs Directory is a searchable index of ongoing international programs involving Columbia University faculty, staff, and students. |
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| Lyme Disease Research Studies | | Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center | | Extensive and detailed information regarding Lyme disease. Current research, frequently asked questions, as well as the history of the disease are just some of the resources offered here |
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| Pediatrics Homepage Clerkship | | College of Physicians and Surgeons | | This site contains a wealth of resources to help third-year pediatrics students develop effective approaches to basic clinical skills. |
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| The Healthy Heart | | Benjamin Lewis/Columbia Interactive | | "The Healthy Heart" is a multimedia excerpt from the e-seminar Introduction to Cardiac Care that uses medical illustrations, audio, Flash animation, and authentic diagnostic imagery to illustrate how the healthy heart functions—how it circulates blood throughout the body while maintaining its own health. |
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| The Heart Simulator | | Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning | | Professors at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, partnered with CCNMTL on the development of a Java-based online heart simulator. This tool serves as a model of a mathematically-based science simulation and is being used to augment class presentations and provide exercises and experiments for first-year medical students. In addition, advanced students and researchers can use the tool to design and run their own experiments. |
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| VirTechs: Virtual Techniques in Dentistry | | Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning | | Virtual Techniques in Dentistry is an online multimedia dental procedure manual. For the first time in a preclinical course, all demonstrations, instructions, and supplementary materials for learning endodontic procedures in this course are available online here. Quicktime 5 required. |
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| Virtual Dentistry at Columbia | | Columbia Interactive | | VirTechs is an interactive multimedia dental laboratory manual created at Columbia that provides dental students with access anywhere, anytime, to detailed, in-depth instruction on dental procedures and treatment. The manual integrates rich media formats such as video, 3-D images and animations, and narrated slide shows, while resources such as a multimedia glossary and dentalâ?"instrument database supplement treatment information. |
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