Global Health Resources

Editor's Note: The 1000+ OBGYN Project and the African Health OER Network resources are both included on this page. To find the "African Health OER Network," please scroll past the "1000+ OBGYN Project" and find the resources below.

1000+ OBGYN Project

The 1000+ OBGYN Project is a consortium of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) departments of obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN) departments and their U.S. OBGYN department partners whose goal is to improve maternal and neonatal health in SSA through training and retaining obstetricians and gynecologists to serve their communities.

Practicing OBGYN, residents, midwives, midwife/OBGYN students and other health practitioners may benefit from this material. The materials can be used for teaching medical students, midwives and health workers, and of course OBGYN residents. Academic OBGYN departments can use these resources as references to use or adapt for their own residency curricula.

These materials are all Open Educational Resources, which means they are publicly available, free to use, and licensed to copy and distribute with no fee. These resources are freely available online through the Open.Michigan Initiative and, through a partnership with The Global Library of Women’s Medicine, will be distributed offline so they can be accessed without connecting to the Internet.

Selected Free Learning Materials for OBGYN Residency Programs - By Hot Topic

› Abortion Care, Adolescent Gynecology, Cervical Cancer, Ebola, Labor and Delivery Management, Malaria, Postpartum Hemorrhage, Pre-Term Labor, Puerperal Sepsis, Sexuality, Sickle Cell, Typhoid

Selected Free Learning Materials for OBGYN Residency Programs - By Milestone

› Foundational Cross-Curriculum Texts
› Abdominal-Pelvic Pain
› Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
› Accountability and Responsiveness to the Needs of Patients Society and the Profession
› Ambulatory Gynecology - Patient Care
› Antepartum Care and Complications of Pregnancy
› Care of Patients in the Intrapartum Period
› Care of Patients in the Postpartum Period
› Communication with Patients and Families
› Communication with Physicians and Other Health Professionals and Teamwork
› Compassion Integrity and Respect for Others
› Cost-Effective Care and Patient Advocacy
› Family Planning
› Gynecology Technical Skills - Laparotomy
› Gynecology Technical Skills - Vaginal Surgery
› Health Care Maintenance and Disease Prevention
› Immediate Care of the Newborn
› Obstetrical Technical Skills
› Patient Safety and Systems Approach to Medical Errors
› Pelvic Floor Disorders
› Pelvic Mass
› Peri-Operative Care
› Quality Improvement Process
› Self-directed learning and critical appraisal of medical literature

African Health OER Network

The University of Michigan Medical School and Dental School collaborate with African health science institutions to develop and distribute health educational materials. The mission of the African Health Open Educational Resources (OER) Network (est. 2008) is to advance health education in Africa by creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and support health education communities. Supported primarily by the Hewlett Foundation, the collaboration started with universities in Ghana and South Africa but is now drawing in institutions from across the African continent.

The OER created as part of this initiative are hosted locally by the authoring institutions as well as through the OER Africa and Open.Michigan websites. The Open.Michigan website currently hosts OER created by University of Michigan, the OER Africa Initiative of the South African Institute for Distance Education, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Ghana, University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, University of Malawi, and the Global Health Informatics Partnership.