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The Auscultation Assistant
The Auscultation Assistant is an educational resource supported by The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT). The web site was created by Christopher Cable, MD in his fourth year of medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The idea was developed into an individual creative project utilizing the internet to enhance the teaching and learning of physical diagnosis.

The Auscultation Assistant provides an innovative audio visual approach for second-year medical students to learn about the different characteristics of various heart murmurs and breath sounds. This approach provides medical students to improve their physical diagnosis skills by learning the physiology of murmurs and the differences between several types of murmurs.

To learn more about The Auscultation Assistant visit the website.