Mycology Online - University fo Adelaide

Mycology online - is a free online resource dedicated specifically to the study of fungus. This site provides info on recognition and management of medically important fungi

Description of Medical Fungi

This is a downloadable e-book on medically important fungi. The Ebook contain information about 177 species of fungus, 7 staining techniques and 20 culture media.
Descriptions are aided with beautiful microscopic images, drug sensitivity profile and identification methods. Staining and culture methods are described with Lab Manual level clarity.
Comprehensivity of the information in this free Ebook alone makes it one of the best online resources on Fungi of medical importance.

Photo Gallery

Contain a lot of beautiful images. There are images of gross appearance, microscopy and the results of growth in fungal cultures.

Mould Identification - Self Assessment

There are 80 self assessment questions in this section. Each question has a short description of sample case, pictures on the culture and a microscopic view to lead you to the answer.

Once you made your decision on the identification, you may click on the corresponding button from the choices given at the bottom. If you are right, images will get labeled with more information on the fungi.

Some other resources provided in this comprehensive online mycology resource are,

Guidelines for anti-fungal therapy and Video on Mycology specimen collection

Free surgical podcasts - Sugery 101

Surgery 101

This is a series of free podcasts aimed at medical students who are on a rotation in Surgery. These free surgery podcasts are created by Professors at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

At present there are 81 podcasts in the collection. Each podcast covers a single topic in about 20 minutes. Each episode is equipped towards its end with a summary to heilight the salient points.

New episodes are released every Friday. You can grab them for free using iTunes from the iTunes Library. You can also download the podcasts to your computer directly from the podcast website.

All the podcast are licensed under Creative Commons so its legal to download them.