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Websites for Teaching Files

http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?sec=edu&d=1
-Aunt Minnie's: commercial radiology website
-extensive teaching files organized by organ system, all cases as unknowns
-teaching files are searchable by ACR code, modality, diagnosis, or combination
-also case of the day (archived) with questions and extensive discussion, board-style review questions (multiple choice), cases with radiology/pathology correlations.
-login necessary, site is free
 

http://www.uhrad.com
-Case Western University Radiology website
-Teaching files are organized by specialty/body system- body, peds, women's imaging, neuro, MSK, nuclear, PET, interventional
->200 cases total, good quality images, but cannot do cases as unknowns; give the diagnosis on the same page as the image along with discussion and references
-mostly resident level
 

http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~dirt/museum/im0.html
-Educational radiology website from Central Middlesex Hospital (London)
-324 cases which may be organized by pathology or anatomy as knowns or by body system as unknowns
-clinical information and discussion of each case with the images; resident level
-also basic radiology introduction for medical students (intro texts, reading a CXR, technical aspects of radiology)
-images are of average/low quality
 

http://www.evaluation.idr.med.uni-erlangen.de/Ecomparetitlepage.htm
-COMPARE: Web-based training in radiology, German website
-Has well-organized teaching cases in plain film (thorax & abdomen), CT (brain, thorax, abdomen, pelvis), angiography & contrast studies.
-Cases are as unknowns, no way to search for specific diagnosis yet.
-Can look at findings, diagnosis and discussion separately, can compare a normal right next to each pathological case
-also offers normal anatomy and basic introduction for each section
-quiz section with many unknown cases where just the diagnosis is given when click on a link
 

http://radiology.creighton.edu/
-Case of the month from Creighton University
-14 cases, of which first 10 are pediatric radiology
-low number of cases, site has not been updated, but cases are presented as unknowns and very easy to navigate and learn from them
 

http://www.eurorad.org
-European radiology website (European Association of Radiology) with organ-system based teaching files -Breast, cardiac, chest, GI, GU (male & female), head/neck, interventional, abdomen, MSK, neuro, peds,   uroradiology & vascular; access from pull-down menu
-Over 1500 total cases, mostly resident level-clinical history, images, discussion, diagnosis, references.   Some have clinical operative photos for correlation
-Search engine available
-No unknown cases, choose from diagnoses
 

http://www.harbor-ucla-radiology.org/teachingfile.htm
-teaching file website for Harbor-UCLA
-organized by organ system/specialty, can view cases as knowns or unknowns
-only 25 total cases (8 MSK, 5 neuro, 4 peds, 4 chest, 1 each for U/S, GU, GI, nuclear)
-cases given with history, images and very brief discussion
 

http://kstr.radiology.or.kr/chest/weekly_case.htm
-Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology website
-presents weekly chest case with archived cases, 230+ cases
-can do cases as unknown or search under disease categories
-must install a language pack on computer to decipher Korean
 

http://rad.usuhs.mil/medpix/index.html
- MedPix™
- Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
-able to search by body system; over 17,000 indexed and cataloged images from more than 4300 cases
-can do cases as unknown or knowns, can search by several different categories
-link to ACR teaching files
-free category 1 CME
-registration required to use all features, but good access without registration
 

http://www.mikety.net
-private website for radiology education set up by Michael Tobin; not updated in several years
-14 chest, 18 bone, 6 GI cases; can do cases as unknowns or knowns
-points out diagnosis and pertinent findings; mostly on medical student level
 

http://www.radiologyeducation.com
-digital library of radiology education resources
-serves as a comprehensive portal to sites for all areas of radiology education
-Radiology textbooks, anatomy/embryology textbooks, radiology teaching files, radiology journals, CE, 3 basic sites for medical students
-purely a portal site, no content specific to the website
 

http://www.radquiz.com
-Portal website for radiology teaching resources
-Organ-system based with innumerable cases for each organ system pulled from many different websites; starts with normal radiology to delineate anatomy, then many teaching files.
-a fewer number of unknown cases (about 10-20) per organ system, mostly from AJR
-medical student and resident appropriate. Board-review materials available for each organ system
-also teaching areas for radiologic physics and also technology
-link to ACR teaching files which requires registration-Quiz section, but answers are given right below the question, user does not fill it in
-also several long audio lectures playable through RealPlayer, both medical student and resident appropriate
 

http://www.radiologyweb.com
-Commercial website requires login
-28 teaching files searchable by ACR code; able to do them as unknowns, but you will always see the ACR code
-case of the month in which you can submit an answer
-board-review questions for residents
 

http://www.radiology.co.uk/srs-x/cases.htm
-Scottish Radiological Society educational resource page
-96 cases organized by body system-cases can be viewed as unknowns or knowns with clinical history and images
-also tutorials are available on lobar collapse and head CT in trauma
-tutorials are med student level, cases are resident level
 

http://www1.stpaulshosp.bc.ca/stpaulsstuff/NeatcasesbyText.html
-St. Paul's Hospital teaching file
-90 teaching files, but not organized in any way, just interesting cases
-short discussion, cannot do as unknowns
 

http://www.uab.edu/pedradpath/index.html
-University of Alabama Children's Hospital webpage
-36 teaching files for pediatric radiology with pathological correlate
-divided into CNS/Head & neck (14), GI/GU (12), MSK (6), chest (4)
-not searchable, may do cases as knowns or unknowns; however, even as unknowns, the findings and diagnosis are given on the same page as the clinical history and images
-not high quality images
 

http://www.uams.edu/radiology
-University of Arkansas case of the month
-general radiology cases, resident level; archived cases go back only to 2001
-clinical history and findings are given on the same page, must click for the diagnosis
-no searchability or list of teaching files
 

http://radiology.uchc.edu
-University of Connecticut website
-32 teaching cases organized alphabetically by diagnosis; unable to do cases as unknown and cannot group by body system
-archived case of the week that can be used as unknowns, archive has about 10 additional cases
 

http://ej.rsna.org/ej2/0071-98.fin/database.html
-Study done by authors at UCLA Department of Radiology attempting to organize teaching files found at the RSNA launch pad and various search engines
-websites organized by total # of cases, cases per section of the oral boards, depth of discussion, whether the cases were presented as knowns or unknowns, image size, type, and availability of CME credit.
-good study that organizes websites well; however, it has not been updated and many of the links are dead/no longer work.
 

http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/neuroimaging/tflist.htm
-University of Colorado Neuroradiology website
-102 cases dived between brain, spine, head/neck; mostly resident level
-can view cases as either knowns or unknowns
-cases organized well on the screen, but cannot open up image files in separate screen
 

http://ultrasound.ucsf.edu/USCases.html
-UCSF teaching files for ultrasound
-OB (4), gyn (2), renal (2), peds (1), penis (1), scrotum (1)
-cases are unknowns with brief clinical history and U/S images
-not very high-quality images
 

http://www.rad.kumc.edu/nucmed
-University of Kansas Nuclear Medicine website
-30 nuclear medicine cases, 20 PET cases; resident level
-acceptable images, cases are presented as knowns
 

http://www.ibiblio.org/jksmith/UNC-Radiology-Webserver/UNCRadTeachingFile.html
-University of North Carolina teaching files
-cases are only available by diagnosis, cannot do them as unknowns
-clinical history, images and discussion are given, images are of medium quality
-organized by specialty; chest ( 7), CV/interventional (3), GI (22), GU (10), mammo (9), MSK (6), neuro (13), nuclear (9), peds (7), U/S (13); links to other websites
 

http://www.rad.upenn.edu/resmac/weekcase/Archive.html
-University of Pennsylvania website for resident's Case of the Month
-organized by organ system; 76 total cases, GI and MSK the most numerous
-not updated since July 2001
-cases are not presented as unknowns, diagnosis is given with images
 

http://www.rad.washington.edu/teachingfiles.html
-teaching file website for the University of Washington; primarily an MSK site, also some mammography
-MSK: online textbook, anatomy modules for normal radiography
- Excellent mammography link has about 60 cases well presented, good information
-online teaching files for UW: 46 MSK, 2 breast, 9 chest, 1 GI; cases are well-organized and can be viewed as knowns or unknowns, mostly resident level
 

http://www.med.uwo.ca/ume/radiology/year3/main/mainpage.htm
- University of Western Ontario teaching cases for medical students.
- 137 cases organized by organ system and as a set of cases for a
learning session.
- Facilitates self-learning, excellent resource, especially for medical
students
 

http://www.med.wayne.edu/diagRadiology/TF/TeachingFile.html
-Wayne State University teaching files
-organized by organ system, choose cases by diagnosis, no unknowns
-8 chest, 18 neuro, 2 cardiovascular, 9 GI, 6 GU, 12 MSK
-each organ system also has a section for normal radiographic anatomy
-cases & teaching are med student and lower-level resident caliber
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