This collection of resources will enable faculty and staff to maintain or enhance their clinical skills. Additionally, these resources will support trainees as they develop their clinical skills. Below you will find resources organized thematically into sections for COVID-19 and Establishing and Maintaining Skills.
COVID-19
Here is a variety of resources related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. These may be useful when working with patients, trainees, and conducting research. They may also satisfy personal interest.
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UW-Madison ICEP COVID-19 Information for Healthcare Providers (link)
COVID-19 Information for Healthcare Providers
From the UW-Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership, this page contains COVID-19 resources for healthcare professionals, including accredited activities and resources for patients and families.
AAMC Coronavirus (COVID-19) Clinical Guidance Repository (link)
AAMC Coronavirus (COVID-19) Clinical Guidance Repository
Covid-19 treatment and management guidance for clinicians and hospitals to optimize patient care. It is meant to supplement clinician’s own independent, professional judgment of their institution’s circumstances.
UW-Madison Center for Healthy Minds COVID-19 Well-Being Toolkit and Resources (link)
COVID-19 Well-Being Toolkit and Resources
From the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison, this toolkit provides resources to support well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 American Public Health Association Webinars (link)
COVID-19 American Public Health Association Webinars
A collection of webinars detailing the spread, treatment, challenges, and standards of care during COVID-19 from the American Public Health Association.
Harvard Medical School COVID-19 Resources for Providers (link)
COVID-19 Resources for Providers
The Harvard Medical School provides a series of webinar recordings and continuing medical education resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Explore topics such as COVID-19 in the ICU, immunological testing, and pregnancy during a pandemic.
Academic Medicine COVID-19 and Medical Education (link)
Academic Medicine COVID-19 and Medical Education
A collection of articles examining the impact of the novel coronavirus on medical education and medical education’s response to it. Be sure to check out the articles relating to the transition to residency during a pandemic.
Best Case/Worst Case: ICU, with special content for patients with COVID-19 (Toolkit) (link)
Best Case/Worst Case: ICU, with special content for patients with COVID-19 (Toolkit)
This toolkit is designed to help separated families develop an understanding of their loved one’s illness and bridge communication between patients’ families and the critical care team.
Ebling Library COVID-19 Resources (link)
COVID-19: Special Access to Library Resources
This page provides an expanded list of books, journals and databases that have been temporarily made available as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research Guides: COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019)
This guide provides a collection of various authoritative resources about COVID-19 at the local, campus, state, national and global level. It also contains some helpful data visualizations.
Pandemic(s) History: A Growing Resource Collection
This article from Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Ebling’s curator and history of the health sciences librarian, discusses the Covid-19 pandemic and the Spanish flu as well as provides resources for further reading.
UW-Health Maintaining Staff and Provider Wellbeing Through COVID-19 (link)
UW-Health Maintaining Staff and Provider Wellbeing Through COVID-19
This page provides resources to help staff and providers maintain mental, emotional and physical wellbeing through the COVID-19 public health crisis. This link may require a uconnect login.
Establishing and Maintaining Skills
This variety of links will be helpful for faculty, staff and trainees. For faculty and staff there is a collection of links that provide information for brushing up on clinical skills, either through continuing medical education or quick tutorials. These links are also helpful for trainees as they begin to establish their skills.
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UW-Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (link)
UW-Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership
The UW-Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership provides accredited continuing education to improve healthcare team performance and foster a healthy community. Explore live and online courses as well as grand rounds.
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Recorded Grand Rounds (link)
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Recorded Grand Rounds
An archived collection of recorded Grand Rounds. Filter by topic on the right hand side.
Health Innovation Program: Integrating Healthcare Research and Practice (link)
HIP is a campus-wide program based within the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. HIP is a community of investigators, staff, and trainees committed to conducting partnered research to improve health and health equity.
NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health E-Learning (link)
NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health E-Learning
E-Learning courses free and open to the public to increase understanding of sex and gender influences on health and disease. These courses teach learners how to apply this knowledge when designing research or interpreting evidence in clinical practice.
Stanford Medicine 25 (link)
Stanford Medicine 25 Video Collection
Online guides and videos explaining 25 common exams. Created by Stanford Medicine, these resources are meant to be reminders of skills learned in hands-on sessions.
Practical Clinical Skills (link)
Simulation-based lessons covering heart sounds, murmurs, lungs, carotid bruit, blood pressure measurement and EKG training.