Clinical Cases and Images in Pediatrics

Medical professionals upload their favourite cases so they can contribute to medical education globally. Here are a few sites and communities that present clinical cases.

Cases Journal - Pediatrics

• Description: Cases Journal publishes case reports from all areas of medicine. The journal will publish any report that is understandable, ethical, authentic, and includes all information essential to its interpretation.

Medscape - Pediatric Interactive Clinical Cases

• Description: "Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile. You can also change your Medscape homepage to any of our other specialty and profession sites at any time."

Medting

• Description: "MEDTING is an interactive platform on web for the medical professionals over the world to share their knowledge. MEDTING is a best tool for a physician for sharing medical images, videos and discuss them with a large community of physicians. All for free, always."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

MedU - Pediatrics Cases

• Description: "MedU is the place where medical education knows no boundaries - crossing core disciplines, time, and distance to empower medical educators to collaborate directly and educate tomorrow's physicians effectively in today's health care environment. Comprehensively based on nationally accepted curricula, MedU delivers high-quality medical education programs to students whenever and wherever they are learning. Continuously updated by national editorial boards, MedU creates curricular flexibility and frees faculty to turn their attention to individual student learning needs. Additionally, MedU offers educators and students the rare ability to improve educational approaches by connecting them with one another at a national and international level."
• Quality: MedU operates on a subscription model through the Institute for Innovative Technology In Medical Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Pedicases

• Description: "Welcome to Pedicases the Bright Futures Center for Pediatric Education in Growth and Development, Behavior and Adolescent Health. This site contains more than 30 self-contained educational modules, covering important topics in child growth, development, behavior, and adolescent health. The materials have been written and edited by faculty from Children's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School. They have been reviewed by nationally recognized experts, and pilot-tested and evaluated in pediatric residency programs across the U.S. These materials are freely available to help healthcare educators worldwide."

MednetHellas

• Description: Pediatric pictures and quizzes.

PedsCases

• Description: "Pediatrics for Medical Students."
• Quality: Powered by QuizMD.

QuizMD - Pediatrics

• Description: "QuizMD: "It was created to help students help each other succeed, to collectively scratch each others' backs. Education doesn't need to be difficult. Take control and make it yours."

PediatricEducation.org

• Description: "PediatricEducation.org is a Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing pediatric education."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Virtual Pediatric Hospital

• Description: "Virtual Pediatric Hospital is a pediatric digital health sciences library."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Pediatric Radiology - Image Gallery

• Description: "This program was designed by a radiologist and an educator and is intended for use as a rapid review for Radiology Board examination preparation, but can be used as a teaching resource or refresher for the practicing radiologist. It includes a collection of multiple pediatric cases, all of which have been pathologically proven. You can set the level of difficulty by “allowing” as much ancillary clinical information as you like. Each case includes the raw images and “mouseover” annotation to point out the findings. The correct diagnosis is included at the end of each case. To use the program as a resource, the search engine asks you to choose from the modalities and body systems menus or to enter key words to retrieve good examples of a certain disease."

Springer Images

• Description: "SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images. The SpringerImages interface enables users to search faster, more broadly and more accurately, through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures."

"Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media."

Pediatric Chronic Illnesses, Disabilities & The Caregivers

• Description: "This group is for parents and caregivers of children with a chronic illness and/or lifelong "disability"....please share."