These Open Health Collections are representative samples of available open health educational resources. It includes many collections of openly licensed resources and tools for health sciences. Resources such as textbooks, courses, audio-videos, journals, images, datasets, software, and other mixed content. All of these resources are free for anyone to access worldwide. Many of them are also shared under open licenses that allow copies and modifications.
Open Audio and Video Collections for Health
Open Audio and Video Collections for Health is a collection of open health educational and instructional multimedia materials that can be valuable educational tools. Resources are from a number of organizations such as Doctors without Borders, IRC, National Institutes for Health (NIH), and the Global Health Media Project. Subject material includes clinical skills, clean water and hygiene campaigns, bedside manner, newborn care, and more.
Clinical Skills Online (CSO) YouTube Videos
Doctors Without Borders / MSF-USA YouTube Videos
IRC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) YouTube Videos
Khan Academy: Health and Medicine Videos
NIH Clinical Center YouTube Videos
PhysicianHealthBC YouTube Videos
World Medical School YouTube Videos
Global Health Media Project, Newborn, Childbirth, and Cholera videos
Khan Academy: MCAT Preparation Videos
Medical Aid Films For Women's and Children's Health - Multi-Lingual
Open Courses for Health
Open Courses for Health is a collection of structured courses for health and related fields. Course materials are sourced from a number of universities such as Tufts University, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Michigan, alongside organizations solely dedicated to open education such as The Open University. Subject material ranges from health IT and epidemiology to mental health and emergency medicine.
Free Online Lectures and Courses for Medicine and Healthcare
Health IT Workforce Curriculum, 20 Course Curriculum
Saylor Academy Biology Courses
Tufts School of Medicine: OpenCourseWare
University of the Western Cape, Courses in Public Health and Nursing
Open Data Collections for Health
Open Data Collections for Health is a collection of databases, tables, reports, charts, graphs, and maps for health indicators and related health fields.
Open Image Collections for Health
Open Image Collections for Health is a collection of visuals, anatomic plates, illustrations, photographs, and diagrams for health and related fields. Materials are sourced from a number of reputable organizations such as Gray’s Anatomy, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
AnatQuest: Anatomic Images Online
Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
HEAL (Health Education Assets Library) Collection
List of Images and Subjects in Gray's Anatomy
Open Source Software for Health
Open Source Software for Health is a collection of openly-licensed and open source software for health and related fields. Resources include software for electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR), healthcare information system (HIS) and instructional modules.
Open Case Builder (MIT License, GPL license)
Open Source VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) Platform
Open Textbooks for Health
Open Textbooks for Health is a collection of open educational books and textbooks for health and health-related fields. These textbooks are valuable resources for instructional purposes such as clinical training in preparation for cases of different diseases, pain management, and intensive care guidelines.
A Comprehensive Textbook of Postpartum Hemorrhage, 2nd Edition
A Textbook of Gynecology for Less-Resourced Locations
A Textbook of Preconceptional Medicine and Management
Advances in Labour and Risk Management Textbook
Alcohol Problems: A Health Promotion Approach Module Guide
An Introduction to Obstetric Fistula Surgery
Developing Anesthesia Textbook
Family Planning (A Global Handbook for Doctors)
First Steps in Vesico-Vaginal Fistula Repair
Global HELP (Health Education using Low-cost Publications)
Health Management I Module Guide
HEAT (Health Education and Training) Programme
Managing Human Resources for Health Module Guide
Measuring Health and Disease I: Introduction to Epidemiology Module Guide
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf
Practical Obstetric Fistula Surgery
Counseling Manual for Caregivers, Nurses and Midwives
Health Systems Research I
Procedures in Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Student Handbook for Global Engagement
Surgical Repair of Vesico-Vaginal Fistulae (VVF), Bilingual
Textbook of Urogynaecology
Mixed Open Content for Health
Mixed Open Content for Health is a collection of open educational resources for health and related fields. This includes encyclopedias, learning animations and simulations, resource texts, libraries, and more. Subject material ranges from taxonomy, cardiac imaging, nursing, and more.
Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Consortium for Healthcare Education Online
Global Library of Women's Medicine
Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging
MIMCom - Malaria Research Resources
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): List of Resources
Open Educational Resources for Cancer (OERC)
OurMed: The Unbiased Source of Healthcare Information
Public Health Open Resources in the University Sector (PHORUS)
Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) for Healthcare
Sickle Cell Open, Online Topics and Educational Resources (SCOOTER)
The Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library
University of Michigan Visible Human Project (UMVHP) Links
Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH)
Virtual Genetics Education Centre
Wikispecies Free Species Directory
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Health Open Educational Resources
Sharing in Health: Open-Access Training in Health Care
synDRME: A Synthesis of Digital Resources for Medical Education
University of Cape Town, Open Content, Health Sciences
University of Ghana, Open Educational Resources for Medicine and Dentistry