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:
- 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.
Careers:
- Career Voyages (videos)
(from the US Departments of Labor and Education)
View videos about various health care occupations, including respiratory therapist, dental hygienist, emergnecy medical technician, registered nurse, massage therapist, radiologic technologist, medical & clinical laboratory technologists, phlebotomist, physical therapy assistant.
- Diagnostic Medical Sonography:A SOUND career decision! (video)
From the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, a 5-minute video introduction to a career in DMS. (requires Flash player)
- Respiratory Therapy: Life and Breath videos (videos)
(from the
American Association for Respiratory Care)
View videos on the roles and responsibilities of respiratory care pracitioners working in a variety of settings, including critical care, diagnostics, pediatrics, and more. Includes interviews with real-life therapists, students, and physicians.
Dermatology:
- DermAtlas.org (images)
A dermatology image atlas from Cohen & Lehmann, MDs of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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."
Lectures (video)
Library Research - Medical:
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.
Respiratory Therapy:
- Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education: Pulmonary Pathology Index (images)
(from the University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library)
110 pulmonary pathology images with short descriptions.
- Lung and Respiratory System Review by Philip Daroca, MD
(Tulane University School of Medicine)
A collection of slide images of Pneumoconiosis, Lung Carcinoma, Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Restrictive Pulmonary Disease, and Mediastinal and Upper Respiratory Tract.
- Respiratory Therapy: Life and Breath videos (videos)
(from the
American Association for Respiratory Care)
View videos on the roles and responsibilities of respiratory care pracitioners working in a variety of settings, including critical care, diagnostics, pediatrics, and more. Includes interviews with real-life therapists, students, and physicians.
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.
Tutorials:
- Medline(PubMed) Animated Tutorials
From the National Library of Medicine, a selection of animated tutorials on searching the PubMed database, searching the MeSH database, and more.
This collection is maintained by Beth DeAngelo and was last updated on October 5, 2009.
