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Welcome to the MERLOT Health Sciences Portal, an educational resource for health professionals. You are invited to join MERLOT―it's free―and contribute to this growing community of health professionals, health professional educators, and students by using the learning materials, submitting your own modules and assignments for evaluation, and learning ideas to help you learn as well as teach in a variety of settings.

If you have any questions, contact the Editor of the Health Sciences Editorial Board,

Liza Mayeux at healthsciences@merlot.org.

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This overview and information is for health care professionals and students to understand and value the upcoming technology and medical advances related to genomics. It can be used in the classroom as a Powerpoint Presentation or assigned to students or health care staff for self-study.

Genetics and Genomics in Health Care in MERLOT

New Materials

The BEST Place to Learn Nursing 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️| NURSING.com
Start a trial today! 270,000+ nurses and nursing students use NURSING.com courses, cheat sheets, and practice questions...
Pill Identifier and Drug list - Apps on Google Play
Pill Identifier and Drug List – Patient Care Edition is a FREE tool that helps you identify Brand and Generic drugs by...
Lung Sounds | Over 50 Lessons, Reference Guides and Quiz
Over 50 lung sounds that can help nurses assess their patient better.
Calculating Dosages Online
Used for calculating medication dosages, practice with educational modules.
Rehab Techniques in Oncology Workbook - Jodi Steele, PT | Niagara College Digital Archive
This workbook was created by physical therapist Jodi Steele to provide information on appropriate rehabilitation...
Lymphedema Workbook - Jodi Steele, PT | Niagara College Digital Archive
This workbook outlines appropriate treatments and techniques for physical therapists treating lymphedema. Contents...
Nutrition Resources | The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
This is a helpful guide/worksheet for counting carbohydrates. Nurses could use this in early diabetes education or school...
Quality of life in adults with brain tumors: Current knowledge and future directions
Quality of life is an important area of clinical neurooncology that is increasingly relevant as survivorship increases...
“Bad Breath”: An integrated case study of alcoholic liver disease for first year medical students.
Alcoholic liver disease represents a timeless teaching opportunity for health professional students. Due to the...
What is CAR T-Cell Therapy?
How CAR T-cell therapy holds promise for patients with certain types of lymphoma and leukemia when other treatments have...
N95 Masks' Efficiency Can Be Restored With Electricity: Smart Masks May Follow
IEEE Spectrum Recharging N95 masks restores filtering ability to like-new levels for reuse—and opens the door for...
Jim Allison: Breakthrough (film) and Educator Toolkit
Educators can use the toolkit as a whole or borrow pieces to meet their unique learning objectives and circumstances. You...
Online Resources for Science Laboratories (POD) - Remote Teaching
Online Resources for Science Laboratories (POD) - Remote Teaching. This is a live document. For many subjects and...
Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base contains resources created, curated, and contributed by the Open Scholarship...
Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice
This text provides a pivotal learning experience for students transitioning from an associ- ate degree education to a...
Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education
Open At The Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education is a pertinent book on Open Education, "containing 38...
Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC Protein Structure and Function
Video Tutorial with Quiz & open-ended questions: Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) molecular structure and how it...
Exercise Science 335: Kinesiology & Biomechanics
The OER content in this course shell consists of readings, labs, and homework assignments for a 300-level Kinesiology &...
Impact of Doulas on Healthy Birth Outcomes
Birth outcomes of two groups of socially disadvantaged mothers at risk for adverse birth outcomes, one receiving prebirth...
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Student Resources
This website is beneficial to those interested in Labor and Delivery, postpartum, antepartum nursing. Student nurses can...
Factile | #1 Jeopardy Review Game | Pediatric Nursing
The #1 Jeopardy-style classroom review game now supports remote learning online. It’s Free, Easy and Loads of fun! Create...
Preeclampsia and Eclampsia
Preeclampsia and Eclampsia - handy infographic.
Acute Otitis Media (Causes, Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, treatment and complications)
Visual explanation for Acute Otitis Media infection.
RNpedia - Drugs for Pharmacology
Comprehensive and detailed drug studies of the most commonly use drugs in clinical nursing. Make sure to study these...

New Members

DeMarcus Woolfork
Medical University of South Carolina
Chelsea Kuykendall
Old Dominion University
Stacey Warner
California State University, Los Angeles
Kristina Seymour
Old Dominion University
Alyssa Stanley
Old Dominion University
Kemisola Adeyemi
Old Dominion University
Robyn Pratt
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Darlange Previl
Old Dominion University
TERESA KRISTEK
University of North Carolina System - Wilmington
Jordan White
Old Dominion University
Matt Simons
None
Lidia Lee
Eastern Michigan University
Lindsay McCormick
HCA CJW Medical Center
Matt Falcone
Cleveland State University
Meredith Wingo
Old Dominion University
Jefferson Svengsouk
University of Rochester
Donna Poliquin
Old Dominion University
Samantha Rudolph
Old Dominion University
Stephen Fuller
Western Governor's University
Cassandra Taylor
Southwest Tennessee Community College
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Teresa Connolly
University of Colorado System - Health Sciences Center
Madelyn Hall
West Virginia University
Samantha Hatcher
West Virginia University

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Health Sciences on the Web

'I love this place': Marcfirst opening new, larger pediatric therapy space
Oct 24, 2020 05:00 AM PDT
Public Health Expert Warns Against COVID-19 Fatigue As Cases Rise
Oct 24, 2020 03:18 AM PDT
Patterns of online health information seeking after visiting a physician: perceptions of adolescents ...
Oct 24, 2020 01:57 AM PDT
Cook County Department of Public Health
Oct 23, 2020 10:41 PM PDT
Wheeling Hospital's Amy Butts makes list of top physician assistants
Oct 23, 2020 09:30 PM PDT
Maple City Physical Therapy welcomes 3 new physical therapists
Oct 23, 2020 09:07 PM PDT
Benefits and Options for Therapy
Oct 23, 2020 08:45 PM PDT
2 physician practices to join Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center next year
Oct 23, 2020 07:03 PM PDT
Austin Public Health prepares for COVID-19 vaccine with 'distribution coalition'
Oct 23, 2020 06:52 PM PDT
Light box therapy: How to combat seasonal depression with the power of light
Oct 23, 2020 06:30 PM PDT
Remote therapy provides new avenue for care
Oct 23, 2020 06:07 PM PDT
Public health officials release information on COVID-19 clusters in Dane County
Oct 23, 2020 04:22 PM PDT
St. Croix County keeps public health authority law on agenda as COVID numbers accelerate
Oct 23, 2020 04:15 PM PDT
Telemedicine Internal Medicine Physician - Virtual Urgent Care
Oct 23, 2020 04:03 PM PDT
Helena rallies behind physician who is out for unexplained reasons
Oct 23, 2020 04:03 PM PDT
Public Health Confirms One New COVID-19 Case
Oct 23, 2020 03:41 PM PDT
Coronavirus in Moffat County: Public Health announces 7 new cases since Monday
Oct 23, 2020 02:56 PM PDT
Covid-19 has exposed the US need to invest in public health
Oct 23, 2020 02:22 PM PDT
Public Health in the Time of a Pandemic: A Conversation with Dr. Barbara Ferrer
Oct 23, 2020 02:11 PM PDT

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