Health Sciences
Tutoring
The Learning Centre is here to support you while you are in any of the health science program or courses at VCC. If you like one-on-one tutoring assistance, speak to the tutors at the Broadway campus. You can also ask questions by email using our webform, or via our online tutoring service.
Study Resources
At the Broadway Learning Centre, we have several reference books and audio resources available for in-centre use and a selection of handouts to help you. The Library has also prepared a Health & Dental subject guide, with links to many online and print resources.
Worksheets
The following worksheets are available online. They represent only a small sampling of what we have. The full complement of worksheets is available at the Learning Centre.
| Topic | Worksheet Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Math | Measurement Conversion for Nursing  |
Broadway |
| Math | Pharmacology Math Review for LPN Students | Broadway |
Links
| Brush Up on Your Drug Calculation Skills |
Review the major concepts related to drug calculations, walk through a few exercises, and provide a few exercises that you can perform on your own to check your skills. |
| Dosage Help |
This website provides a dosage calculations tutorial, complete with explanations and examples, to help nursing students prepare for a medication exam. |
| Drug Calculations Quiz Page |
Metric conversions, tablet dosage calcs, fluid dosage calcs, IV drop rate calcs |
| Health Canada | Information on healthy living, health care, diseases and conditions, health protection, etc. |
| Medical Mnemonics |
If your memory is as bad as mine, then this site is for you. Cool methods for remembering anatomy, physiology, health sciences, etc ... |
| Medicine Net | Information on various diseases and conditions, symptoms and signs, procedures and tests, and medications, plus MedTerm Medical dictionary online. |
| MedLine Plus | Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial. |
| Merck Online | Library of medical terms with audio files to help with pronunciation. |
| Nursing Calculators |
Each calculator, along with examples and formulas, provides a unique way to review nursing math. |
Links (Dental Science)
| Dental Health (MedLinePlus) |
Denture health links by the MedLinePlus people |
| Dental Hygiene Links |
500+ dental hygiene links by the Dental Hygiene Education people |
| Dentures (MedLinePlus) |
Denture links by the MedLinePlus people |
| Martindale's Virtual Dental Health Centre |
Dental atlases, courses, textbooks, lectures, procedures, cases, videos, etc ... |