Practical Clinical Skills

Lessons, Quizzes, Guides

Practical Clinical Skills

Lessons, Drills, Quizzes

Practical Clinical Skills provides training and reference guides for EKG interpretation, taking blood pressure and auscultation of heart sounds, murmurs, lung sounds and carotid bruit.

ECG Interpretation

ECG training with lessons, practice strips and quizzes. Try our graded quizzes and patient monitor trainer. Earn EKG interpretation certificates. Extensive library of arrhythmia strips.

Heart Sounds

Quick reference guide to over 100 heart sounds. Interactive courses covering systolic and diastolic heart murmurs and carotid bruit.

Medical Terms

Entirely free. Medical terminololgy flash cards with spaced repetition. Study by specialty.

Lung Sounds

Includes both breath and voiced sounds. Textual descriptions, audio, waveforms, anatomy and quizzes are available.

Blood Pressure

Features an innovative blood pressure simulator and companion guide to taking blood pressure. Free virtual blood pressure cuff training and drills.

Ultrasound

Learn point of care ultrasound using our free modules. Authored by Dr. Chris Moore, Yale School of Medicine.

Pulmonary Problems

Cases in pulmonary problem-solving as well as short courses on spirometry and arterial blood gases.

Patient Monitor

Use our patient monitor simulators:
Basic Monitor Quiz
Advanced EKG Monitor Quiz

Fundamentals of Heart Sounds

Our new 12 lesson cardiac auscultation course. Includes text, audio recordings and heart animations.

Fundamentals of Lung Sounds

Our new lung sounds auscultation course. Includes text, audio recordings and waveform videos.

Pediatric Referral

Apply your auscultation skills for pediatric cases. Review the patient history and auscultate using a virtual manikin.

Carotid Artery Bruit

These cases feature evaluation of carotid artery bruit using comparative auscultation of carotid bruit vs basal heart murmurs.

Pulmonary Hypertension Updated

Explore pulmonary hypertension using our cases which incorporate a virtual manikin for auscultation.

Abdominal Sounds

Use case studies to learn about abdominal sounds and their significance. Cases include text, audio and assessment exercises.

Auscultation Repetition

These exercises supplement our heart and lung sound courses and reference guides by helping users build listening skills.

Auscultation Ref Guide

Our auscultation reference guide includes over one hundred heart and lung sounds.

Free Resources

We provide online access to courses, drills and quizzes to complement to classroom instruction. Click to learn more.

Authors, Reviewers and Developers

EKG rhythms classes: Thomas O'Brien.
EKG monitor simulation: Steve Collmann
12 Lead Lecture: Dr. Michael Mazzini, MD, Cardiologist.
Spanish EKG: Breena R. Taira, MD, MPH
Auscultation: Diane Wrigley, PA
Respiratory: William French
Special thanks for the medical mentorship of Dr. Raymond Murphy.
Cardiology: Dr. Jonathan Keroes, MD, Cardiologist,
Auscultation review: Dr. Barbara Erickson, PhD, RN, CCRN
Electrophysiology review: Dr. Pedro Azevedo, MD, Cardiology
Last Update: 11/10/2022