How to Prepare for the Allergy and Immunology Specialty Board by Watching Free Video Lectures

1. Immunology video lectures.

The best free resource seems to be the immunology course of the University of South Carolina. The lectures can be watched online or downloaded to an iPod/iPhone.

Currently, there are 2 courses available -- from the year 2007 and 2008:

- Immunology 2007

- Immunology 2008

2. Allergy video lectures.

There are 2 options:

- ACAAI Podcast and Vodcast Library is limited in scope but covers the latest advances in clinical allergy and immunology.

- Conferences On-Line Allergy (COLA) consists of the bi-weekly presentations at the Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics Section of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The lectures are very comprehensive and cover most of the spectrum of allergy and immunology. The project could be the video analog of the textbook Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice one day.

- Allergy and Immunology Lectures at the University of South Florida. USF (University of South Florida, USA) Allergy & Immunology Lecture Series. The 55-minute lectures are recorded in wma format and are best viewed by using Windows Media Player software.


It is a good idea to download all video files (if allowed by the copyright holder) since many of the webmasters remove them after a certain period of the time. The download cane be done manually or through iTunes by choosing the "Get all" option from the podcast menu.

References:

Audio and Video Lectures in Allergy and Immunology