MEDIA (Visualize it!)
Online videos, images, and tutorials for Nursing and Allied Health
(Please remember that many images and videos available on the web are protected by copyright. If used in assignments, they should be properly cited.)
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General Medical Images & Videos
- Catalog of Clinical Images (images)
"a visual educational resource dedicated to providing pictures that are representative of common and uncommon physical exam findings." By Charlie Goldberg, M.D. at UCSD.
- Hardin MD: Medical Picture Gallery (images)
Gallery includes over 800 medical pictures. Includes a separate "free-to-use" collection of pictures that are not under copyright.
- HEAL: Health Education Assets Library (images, videos, & animations)
A digital collection of materials for health sciences education.
- Health and Wellness Resource Center (videos)
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In addition to nursing and allied health articles, this library database contains videos! To find videos, do a search for your topic, then click on the Video tab on your results list.
- HONmedia (images & video)
A repository of over 6,800 medical images and videos created by the Health on the Net Foundation (HON). HON is a well-respected not-for-profit portal to medical information on the Internet.
- Medical Encyclopedia (images)
From Medlineplus.gov. Includes "over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations."
Anatomy:
- Anatomy Videos (videos)
From MedlinePlus (a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine). "These animated videos show the anatomy of body parts and organ systems and how diseases and conditions affect them." Covers over 75 different topics/conditions.
- AnatQuest: Anatomic Images Online (images)
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project has produced high resolution cryosectional color images of human anatomy.
- Guided Tour of the Visible Human (images)
A digital image library of volumetric data representing complete, normal adult male and female anatomy. Contains over 18,000 digitized sections of the human body.
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Careers:
Dental Hygiene:
- ADA Dental Minute (videos)
From the American Dental Association, "...an informative news feature presented by practicing dentist Dr. Maria Lopez Howell" on a variety of topics. In English and Spanish.
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Dermatology:
- DermAtlas.org (images)
A dermatology image atlas from Cohen & Lehmann, MDs of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Diagnostic Medical Sonography
Hematology:
- American Society of Hematology Image Bank (images)
"The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Image Bank is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference and teaching tool that is widely accessible to physicians and hematology students around the world."
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Lectures (video)
Library Research - Medical:
Nursing:
Please note: MEC Library has a number of excellent nursing DVDs available for in-library use. Please call 703-822-6684 to see if we have one on your topic.
Oncology:
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) Visuals Online (images)
Public access to 1,947 general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the National Cancer Institute.
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Respiratory Therapy:
Surgical Procedures:
- Surgical Procedures (videos)
From Medlineplus.gov. Provides links to prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures. These are actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States since January 2004.
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Tutorials:
This collection is maintained by Beth DeAngelo and was last updated on June 1, 2011.
