Open Educational Resources (OER) at MUSC

Peer-reviewed Open Access books and journals.

A catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

Free and flexible textbooks, slides, test banks, answer guides, LMS integration, etc.

Textbooks are free to use and distribute and are licensed to be freely adapted with proper attribution. Supported by the Open Education Network

Searchable database of interactive lesson plans and assignments for college and university classrooms. Curated at Harvard University.

Curated selection of free, open, and customizable OER.

FOAM – Free Open Access Meducation (#FOAMed) – Medical education for anyone, anywhere, anytime.

A MEDLINE-indexed, open-access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in partnership with the American Dental Education Association.

Over 100K discipline-specific, peer-reviewed learning materials.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.

Collection of interactive multimedia learning materials from the GW School of Nursing.

Collection of OER from the University of Michigan. Select topics include medical, nursing, pharmacy, public health, etc.

This YouTube channel contains OER media with a CC 4.0 license being used by the Open RN project.

The University of British Columbia clinical anatomy modules.

This website contains images of human specimens that have been donated to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus through the Colorado State Anatomical Board for the purpose of education and research.

University of British Columbia functional neuroanatomy modules.

The images in this collection are derived from 1,547 photographic images and accompanying drawings were compiled into a 24-volume Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy, completed in 1962.

The newsroom image library is home to the images journalists request most often. These high-resolution, public domain images are ready to print in your publication.

Use the License filter in Advanced Search to limit to either public domain, attribution BY, or attribution non-commercial.

DermNet has become a world-renowned resource all about the skin. The website is owned by the DermNet New Zealand Trust. It is frequently updated to provide information about the skin via any desktop or mobile web browser.

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.

Searchable collection of scientific photos, illustrations, and videos. The images and videos in this gallery are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 3.0. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as you credit and license your new creations under identical terms.

Free, open-access database of medical images and teaching cases.

Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine.

Creative Commons searchable extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.

Created by a Working Group at the CDC, the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures.

Over 3 million photos that can be downloaded and used for free, for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Database of cases for EM educators around the world to use.

The Maternity Series is an open educational resource (OER) containing four units and three simulation games ("games") on the essentials of maternal and newborn nursing assessment and care: Prenatal Nursing Care, Labour and Delivery Nursing Care, Postpartum Nursing Care, and Newborn Care.

These scenarios are free and open to use, adapt or modify. They have been created with free H5P software so they can easily be added to your LMS.

The Exchange is a repository of free resources, including simulation scenarios, links to virtual simulations, scenario development tools & templates, and assessment/evaluation tools.

This portal provides healthcare students and professionals with an experiential learning opportunity for practising client care in a safe virtual environment.

Explore freely-usable learning scenarios created by domain experts and leading institutions.