UPSOM educators have created high quality teaching materials that are available for use by other institutions and programs. Many of these are available through the MedEdPORTAL, the peer-reviewed repository for medical and oral health teaching materials.
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: A Patient Care and Team Training Simulation
This curriculum and training guide is a comprehensive source for conducting a large-scale hospital pandemic simulation for medical and other health sciences students.
Public Health Emergency Tabletop Exercise
An interactive tabletop exercise portraying the early response to a public health emergency.
Initial Patient Assessment Workshop
A guide that demonstrates to students how they would approach initial assessment of a patient and to help them begin to think like a clinician who is going to make a contribution to the clinical care of the patient.
Standardized Patient Cases for Teaching Tobacco Cessation
This in-depth resource includes eight standardized patient (SP) cases and instructions on how each was used in a tobacco cessation counseling training workshop for third year clerkship students, developed with funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health.
CHF from Diastolic Dysfunction in a Patient Presenting Preoperatively for an Elective Surgery
A human patient simulation that focuses on the preoperative evaluation, assessment and treatment of a man presenting for a TURP.
The Impact of Psychiatric Distress on Co-morbid Medical Illness: A Problem-Based Learning Case
This problem based learning (PBL) case will help raise medical student awareness of depression and co-morbid cardiovascular disease, to improve both assessment and management of such patients.
ASPE Social History Compendium
A broad library of true-to-life social histories which can be used as the backbone for the development of a new standardized patient case, developed with funding from the Association of Standardized Patient Educators.
PedsEd – Pediatrics Education Online Courses and CME by Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (registration required)
Includes units on dermatology, emergency medicine topics, obesity, immunizations, otitis media, and a series of continuity clinic topics.