Open Educational Resources: Health & Medicine

Open.Michigan is an online repository developed by the University of Michigan faculty of open access learning materials. There are lots of materials available, and many of the classes have an low-cost purchase option available of some materials for students who want a print copy of readings.

Most of the content on this site is published under CC BY license, which means you are free to use and adapt with attribution.

This site also has a wealth of online resources related to health and medicine

• Patients and Populations: Medical Decision-Making
• Patients and Populations: Medical Genetics
• Cells and Tissues
• Musculoskeletal
• Cardiovascular / Respiratory
• Renal
• Gastrointestinal & Liver
• Endocrine / Reproduction
• Immunology
• Central Nervous System / Head & Neck
• Infectious Disease / Microbiology
• Human Growth and Development
• Cardiovascular
  
• Behavioural Sciences
• Dentistry
• Ethics
• Health Services Administration
• Informatics
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Pharmaceutics
• Pharmacology
• Public and Community Health
• Research Design
• General Guides
• Reports and Papers
• Advanced Emergency Trauma
• Integrative Medicine Based Approach to Care
• Integrative Medicine: Body-Based Therapies
• Integrative Medicine: Mind-Body Therapies
• Nutrition
• Musculoskeletal Examinations
• Workshops in End of Life Training in Children's Hospitals
• Perspectives in Global Health
• Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice

MIT's OpenCourseware site has many classes available to download and adapt via Creative Commons Licensing. 

Many of the classes are complete with textbooks, syllabi, exam and quiz questions, and exercises, and some even include recorded lectures.

There are too many to list in this one box, but I've linked to specific areas to help you find what you need.

To download all course materials, make sure you visit the "Download Course Materials" link in the left side navigation.

• Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation

Rice University founded OpenStax press in 2011 to create peer-reviewed, high-quality textbooks under a Creative Commons license. The textbooks also come with other class materials like homework ideas and study guides. They are releasing new subjects each semester, so the collection is slowly growing.

All of these textbooks can also be customized, or used as is.

Open Course Library, created with grant funding by  Washington State University, provides full courses paired with either free or open source textbooks that are all available via Creative Commons Licensing. Their handy How To Guide provides detailed instructions on how to access and download the class materiels.

For advanced uses, the courses can also be downloaded in Common Cartidge format (compatible with Blackboard) from their Connexions page.

• Human Anatomy and Physiology: 1 and 2
• Health for Adult Living
• Nutrition

College Open Textbooks is a clearing house site that lists open textbooks by subject. Not all of the textbooks listed have been "vetted" by the site editors, so you should review them carefully before using them in your classrooms. 

• Active Healthy Lifestyles
• Anatomy and Physiology of Animals
• The Chemistry of Health
• Child Health
• Communicable Diseases
• Contemporary Health Concerns
• Developing Anaesthesia
• Disaster Management
• Diversity and Difference in Communication
• Drugs, Brains, and Behavior – The Science of Addiction
• Emergency and Risk Management Case Studies
• Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Disease 10th ed.
• eSource: Behavioral and Social Science Research
• Finding Information in Health and Lifestyle
• First Aid
• Fundamentals of Emergency Management
• Health Education
• Health is Everywhere: Unraveling the Mystery of Health
• History of Medicine
• HIV and AIDS
• Human Nutrition
• Infection Prevention
• Integrated Safety, Health and Environmental Management: An Introduction
• Internet for Health and Safety
• Introduction to Personal Hygiene
• Issues in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Medical Knowledge Base
• Medicines by Design
• Medicine Transformed: On Access to Health Care
• MedlinePlus
• Moral and Ethical Principles in End of Life Care
• NIH Curriculum Supplement Series
• Nutrition: Proteins
• Obesity: Balanced Diets and Treatment
• Occupational Health
• Public Health
• Sexuality and Sexual Health
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Understanding Cardiovascular Diseases
• Vaccination

Merlot offers a variety of learning materials: lesson plans, images, videos, syllubi, quizzes and exams, and even textbooks. Items contributed to the Merlot site are peer reviewed by an editorial board.

While you can search all of Merlot, here are some collections that serve as portals to discipline specific materials.

• Health Sciences Portal
• Technical Allied Health Portal

PubMed Central is "...a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection. Launched in February 2000, PMC was developed and is managed by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)." 

Currently, it contains over 3.2 million articles.