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204 guides 1060 defined terms 5 printable booklets CC BY-SA licence

Start from who you teach

The same material, sequenced three different ways. Each route says what already exists and what is still being written.

Secondary / A-level

Biology and health students

Ages 14–18. Enough anatomy to be real, without needing a clinical vocabulary first.

Undergraduate / nursing

Pre-clinical and allied health

Students who will meet these patients before they have finished learning the pathology.

Postgraduate / faculty

Informatics, ethics and research methods

Seminars on federated data, model governance, and who gets to decide what ships.

Slide decks

6 commissioned · 0 released

Editable decks built from the guide text, so the slides and the reading a student is set never contradict each other.

None of these decks is downloadable yet. The outlines below are the commissioned scope — slide counts and section breakdowns are what each deck will contain, and each one waits on clinical review of the guide text it is drawn from.

Undergraduate 34 slides

CSF physiology and hydrocephalus

Production, circulation, absorption, and the four ways drainage fails. Ends on shunt versus ETV.

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Postgraduate 28 slides

Chiari malformation: from imaging to decision

Why millimetres of tonsillar descent predict so little, and what actually drives the operative decision.

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Undergraduate 31 slides

The growing skull and premature fusion

Suture biology, the named synostoses, and how each one deforms growth in a predictable direction.

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Postgraduate 26 slides

Reading a glioma pathology report

Type, grade and molecular markers — what each line means and how it changes the plan.

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Faculty seminar 22 slides

Federated learning in clinical research

Why the data does not move, what an aggregate actually reveals, and where the model still leaks.

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Faculty seminar 19 slides

Who decides what ships

Equity gates, replication requirements, and what changes when patients hold votes rather than seats.

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What you can use in class tomorrow

Unlike the decks, all of this exists now.

Reading 204 patient guides Sectioned, plain-language, with FAQs and a reading-level control students can adjust themselves. Open the library Reference 1060 defined terms Every term its own page, cross-linked to the guides that use it. Works as a glossary sprint. Open the dictionary Handout Printable booklets One per condition. Red flags, first guides, glossary, and a question checklist students can annotate. Print one Film Animated explainers Short, calm, no operations shown. Good as a lecture opener or for a paediatric communication module. Watch Simulation Symptom navigator Have students complete it as a patient, then critique what the summary does and does not capture. Try it Case material Platform walkthrough The operator sequence at a federated node, step by step — useful for informatics teaching. Walk through

Seminar prompts

Questions with no settled answer, for a room that is meant to argue. Each one has a page on this site taking a position you can push against.

01

If a model performs worse for one subgroup but better on average, should it ship?

AURORA's answer is no — subgroup performance is a release gate, not a limitation paragraph. Ask the room what that costs, and who pays it.

Our position
02

Who is liable when a clinician disregards a model that was right?

And when they follow one that was wrong. The override is permanent by design; liability is not settled by design choices alone.

Responsibilities
03

Does federation actually protect privacy, or just relocate the risk?

Aggregates can still leak. Have students attack the boundary rather than accept it.

How it works
04

Should patient advocates vote on technical decisions they cannot evaluate?

Observer status was proposed and rejected. The rejection reasoning is worth reading before the seminar.

RFC index
05

What is lost when patient education is written at age-11 reading level?

Precision, sometimes. Have students find a sentence in a guide where simplification changed the meaning — then rewrite it.

The library

Licensing, in one paragraph

Written material is CC BY-SA 4.0. Use it in teaching, translate it, adapt it, print it for a cohort, put it in a course pack — commercially or not. Credit AURORA, and release your adaptation under the same licence so the next teacher gets it too. Software is MIT at public alpha.

The one thing we ask: keep the medical limitations attached. They exist to protect the reader, and stripping them causes real harm.

Teaching with it?

Tell us what you taught and what fell flat. Course feedback changes the guides faster than anything else we receive.

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How to cite

Guides are versioned and dated. Cite the version you taught from, not the live page.

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