Which Resources should medical students and healthcare providers be using in clinical practice? With so many resources and information out there it is difficult to quickly find what is relevant and can aid in delivering proper patient care. In this article I will be discussing the best Websites for Medical Students.

Which Online Resources have Videos and Question Banks for Medical Students

Amboss

This is a great website for clinical medicine. The articles are well written and super organized. Each article on a clinical condition is typically broken down by clinical sx, management steps as well as pathophysiology and Etiology. Question Bank is also very good for Board Prep and for school exams as well.

Lecturio

This is a lecture based learning platform. that contains lecture playlists and short quizzes that follow if you purchase a subscription. It contains both clinical and basic science topics. you can read more here.

Osmosis

Another lecture based learning platform. This utilizes more visual imagery. During the lectures you actually see the concepts being drawn out and animated. Very solid resource if you are a visual learner

Anatomy Bootcamp

This is the best resource for Anatomy in my opinion. It is one of the Newer resources. It has gross anatomy images as well as a question bank for every cadaveric image. There is also MedBootcamp which is made by the same company as Anatomy Bootcamp. You can read more here.

Other Subscription based Online Resources for Medical Students

StatPearls

This contains peer reviewed articles that go over clinical diagnoses protocols as well as basic sciences.Every single article can has associated quiz questions on it. The questions span 100s of medical specialty and can be used by Medical Students, Residents as well as Physicians. You can read more here.

Wolters Kluwer

Wolter Kluwer provides access to very popular publications used in medical education such as Lipiincott. Additionally it provides access to subscription websites such as Up to Date.

It contains a variety of services which range from subscriptions that give you access to , an online store which houses a variety of popular medical publications, as well as other helpful educational resources. A description of some of these services is listed below

Some of the more popular features and resources are below:

• Board Review Series: This is an online textbook series which can be found on shop.lww.com.
• DocuCare: This is an educational tool used to train nurses in how to use electronic medical records system as well as experience documenting patient encounters.
• Aclands Anatomy: Acland’s anatomy is a video series which provides helpful narration and exploration of cadaveric images. It is useful for medical students leaning anomy during pre clerkship
• Ovid: Ovid contains 100s of published articles with the latest information on clinical practices and point of care. 

other resources are the following

• Up to Date
• LWW health library:
• Visual Dx
• Bio digital Human
• Bates visual Guide

A full list of all of the categories of the services are listed and broken down in the categories Point of Learning, Point of Care, and Point of Reference.

The prices will vary from one service to the next. In general some of the more popular subscriptions are uptodate and Lexicomp. These are listed below.

Lexicomp

A subscription to Lexicomp which is a resource which provides information and solutions to pharmaceutical prescription drugs offer a variety of can be purchased for only $70.00 per year

The site is a bit difficult to navigate but this is just because it has so many resources and educational material. However overall the interface is not overly difficult to use.

Visual Dx 

• Visual Dx contains a large library of images which cover of variety of diagnosis. Additionally the platform contains various tools to help you build a differential diagnosis

The first 30 days are free. Visual Dx plus Derm expert is $499.99 biled annually, The Visual Dx packages is billed ar 399.99 annually

In addition to individual scubscriptions, group subscriptions can also be purchased and can be tailored for specific institution needs.

Uptodate

• Up to date contains information on clinical decision making, management, patient care as well as other evidence based medicine concepts useful for clinical practice.

• Additionally they host helpful training videos, live learnings, as well as webinars. A list is seen below.

They have a variety of subscription options that are both for individuals as well as for academic institutions. Below you can find the subscription plans for individuals.

Clinical Key

Clinical Key is a subscription based website for medical students, Residents and Physicians that contains clinical information, medical calculators, procedural videos, online textbooks, and journals. It is essentially a clinical search engine, and enables clinicians to quickly find solutions for patient cases.

Clinical key is used as a reference tool for managing and diagnosing patients. It also contains guidelines from leading health organizations. and the cost varies between $29.00month-$1250.00/month.

. I believe it is used best for when you are on the wards and need a resource to quickly look up a diagnostic step, or some other 

As a student you could also use it to help prepare for a shelf exam or for a board exam. In this case then the best time to use clinical key would be to use it as you prepare for your board exams. This will vary depending on when you take step 1 and Step 2. A review of the Clinical Key question Bank for Step 1 can be found here.