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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

Introduction to Queer Studies
What’s this course all about? Focuses on the lives and contributions of queer people in cultural, historical, and social...
The Stop Snoring and Sleep Apnea Solution
Christian Goodman’s The Stop Snoring and Sleep Apnea Program is an 3-minute exercises solution for snoring and sleep...
Clinical Policy Guidelines for Abortion Care
2018, Clinical Policy Guidelines for Abortion Care, National Abortion Federation,...
Second Trimester Dilation and Evacuation Abortion
2017, Second Trimester Dilation and Evacuation Abortion, Vanessa Dalton, MD, University of Michigan,...
Second-Trimester Abortion: A Toolkit for Service Delivery
2014, Second-Trimester Abortion: A Toolkit for Service Delivery, iPas,...
Second Trimester Abortion
2018, Second Trimester Abortion, Munir Kassa Eshetu, Meghan Obermeyer, Center for International Reproductive Health...
Papaya Workshop
2019, Papaya Workshop online for manual vacuum aspiration, IUD placement, gynecologic skills, Jody Steinauer et al,...
The Papaya Workshop: Using the Papaya to Teach Intrauterine Gynecologic Procedures
2013, The Papaya Workshop: Using the Papaya to Teach Intrauterine Gynecologic Procedures, Jody Steinauer et al,...
Medical Abortion Study Guide, Second Edition
2013, Medical abortion training guide (second ed.), K. L. Turner (Ed.), Ipas,...
Medical Abortion Reference Guide: Induced abortion and postabortion care at or after 13 weeks gestation (‘second trimester’)
2017, Medical Abortion Reference Guide: Induced abortion and postabortion care at or after 13 weeks gestation, Alison...
Comprehensive Abortion Care Part 2
2017, Comprehensive Abortion Care Part 2, Dr. Yonas Getachew, MD, Clinical Advisor, Center for International Reproductive...
Comprehensive Abortion Care part 1
2017, Comprehensive Abortion Care part 1, Dr. Yonas Getachew, MD, Clinical Advisor, Center for International Reproductive...
Comprehensive Abortion Care
2018, Comprehensive Abortion Care, Dr. Diomede Ntasumbumuyange, University of Rwanda,...
Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Strategy
Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Strategy (The Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Solution) overcame fatty liver disease in 3...
Introduction To LGBTQ+ Studies
LGBTQ Studies: An Open Introduction will be an introductory level LGBTQ Studies OER text. The few textbooks in this area...
Early Abortion Training Workbook | TEACH
2016, TEACH Early Abortion Training. Workbook, Fifth Edition, University of California San Francisco Bixby Center for...
Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems
2012, Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance technical and policy guidance for health systems, Second Edition,...
Introduction to Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist
This chapter in Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist presents an introduction to the Guidebook, which...
Principles of Radiation Oncology
This chapter in Cancer Concepts: a Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist describes the principles of Radiation Oncology....
Treatment of Cancer Pain
Pain is one of the first concerns most cancer patients express when newly diagnosed or meeting a new physician. They are...
Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma
This chapter in Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist presents an overview of lung cancer and mesothelioma,...
Environmental and Infectious Causes of Malignancy
This chapter in Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist presents a summary of the most relevant causative...
Principles of Multidisciplinary Management
This chapter in Cancer Concepts: a Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist describes the principles of multi-disciplinary...
Head and Neck Cancers: Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist
This chapter in Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist presents an overview of head and neck cancers,...

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Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences
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