Guide to medical resources in the library, compiled by the Social Science, Health, and Education Library

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is a series of anatomy lessons on video presented by Robert Acland. Dr. Acland is a professor of surgery in the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. The series uses un-embalmed human specimens to illustrate anatomical structures.

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.

The world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy available online created by Primal Pictures. Includes features such as interactive zoom, rotation, angle, interactive layers, extensive text, MRI, clinical slides and xrays, live action movies, animations, radiology slides, dissection videos and slides, surface anatomy videos and slides. Focuses on muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries, bones.

Over 1,000 endoscopic images. Users may browse categories include esophagus, stomach, colon, and more. Images are relatively small.

Includes over 1000 labeled histological features and accompanying functional descriptions. All images are accessible though an alphabetical index and a search engine.

The Atlas of Ophthalmology is a pictorial documentation of eye disease. Emphasis is placed on showing and describing the clinical picture and its various stages as it is seen in photographs and by ancillary tests, rather than giving a detailed overview of the whole disease. Presently the Atlas contains about 7500 pictures.

A collection of stereoscopic anatomy images from the Lane Library at Stanford. Images are detailed line drawings based on three-dimensional photographic images of human anatomy using innovations in dissection pioneered by Dr. Bassett.

The purpose of this Biomechanics of Movement collection is to create a structure and a web based user interface for researchers and students to access and utilize video clips of human movements. This interactive digital archive resource provides a mechanism for bringing together engineers, animators, computer scientists, and kinesiologists to collectively solve meaningful real world problems fundamental to functional movement. This digital collection of movement video clips is created by members of the USC Biomechanics Research Laboratory in collaboration with USC Libraries.

Michigan State University online atlases of the brains of humans, sheep, dolphins, and more. Search for brain images by animal category.

This library is a public and easily accessible resource database of images, videos, and animations of cells, capturing a wide diversity of organisms, cell types, and cellular processes. The purpose of this database is to advance research on cellular activity, with the ultimate goal of improving human health.

ClinicalKey is a clinical resource designed to provide fast, clinically-relevant answers. It contains an array of content from Elsevier and trusted third parties including over 1,000 books, 500 journals, thousands of videos, and millions of images, as well as point-of-care content from First Consult.

The largest dermatology information service available on the internet. It offers elaborate image atlases (DOIA and PeDOIA) complete with diagnoses and differential diagnoses, case reports and additional information on almost all skin diseases. Images are associated with many diagnoses.

The Medical Center Library’s Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences. Special collections in HIM include Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia, the Bookplates, the Four Season and the Stewart Album.

This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or "Madison Avenue," as the latter is colloquially termed. The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines.

The ECG Learning Center also includes diagrams useful in explaining ECG abnormalities. Use of ECG Learning Center images is governed by a Creative Commons Copyright which allows rather liberal non-profit use.

The Video and Visual Medicine page includes educational films, surgical films, diagnostic atlases with still images, and chart presentations of over 100 standard laboratory tests.

Illustrations from Henry Gray's 1918 work Anatomy of the Human Body.

Atlas of the human brain from Harvard Medicine. Browse for a variety of images by normal brain or brain disease type.

HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. From the University of Utah.

The WebPath® educational resource contains over 2700 images with text that illustrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. Search features are not available.

These unique sets of several hundred images from the 5,000 volume John Martin Rare Book Room at the University of Iowa have been selected from some of the more striking works in the collection and include illustrations relating to anatomy, physiology, surgery, obstetrics, and therapeutics.

Nearly a quarter million digitized images from the History of Science Collection offer researchers the opportunity to view such items as books, maps, photographs, and manuscripts.

Hosted by the Internet Archive, The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries.

A collaboration funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to produce and make available over the internet a three-dimensional image reference of the human embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging. View photos, animations, and MRI images of embryos by selecting an embryo representing one of the Carnegie stages.

Medical and public health related photos and illustrations. Subjects include patient-care illustrations, NCI staff, and biomedical images.

Images from the collections of the Office of Communications and Education and Office of Media Relations, National Cancer Institute.

The National Eye Institute's (NEI) repository for images, photos, and videos. Can be search by condition, anatomy, diagnostics, age group, and others.

Hosted on Flickr, the NIH Collections include everything from portraits of staff to infographics and lab research images.

Digital Collections is the National Library of Medicine's free online resource of biomedical books and videos. All of the content in Digital Collections is freely available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The collections include nearly 68,000 still images, over 200 videos, and text.

Online, streaming collection of videos for the education and training of nurses and other healthcare workers. Contains over 250 full videos, with searchable, synchronized transcripts, which can easily be embedded into online courses. Topics covered include clinical skills, exam skills, procedures, communication (including cross-cultural communication), ethical issues, legal issues, and much more.

Open-i is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored project designed to "provide next generation information retrieval services for biomedical articles from the full text collections such as PubMed Central. It is unique in its ability to index both the text and images in the articles." The initial launch is with 600,000 images, with plans to scale in the millions over time.

Over 33,600 pathology images from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

A variety of medical photos and images related to public health. Collections of interest include EM Photography, health care workers interacting with patients, and natural disasters.

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Users may search for a topic, and click on the "images" tab to see associated images.

Images from the Genomic Science program and other U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) programs. Also includes archived images from the Human Genome Project and Microbial Genomics.

Launched in 2003 by Dr. Dharam Ramnani, this site initially focused on urologic pathology and was subsequently expanded to include other organ systems. Web Pathology offers a visual survey of surgical pathology with emphasis on high-quality images. Each image is accompanied by a comment on pertinent clinical and pathologic features.

Developed by the Wellcome Library, one of the world's major resources for medical history, Wellcome Images mainly focuses on images related to medicine and biomedical science. However, there are numerous disciplinary images and galleries, and the over 100,000 freely available high resolution images makes this collection worth looking at.

Online collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine. Over 450 titles - 100 hours of historical film and video - have been transferred and are freely available under Creative Commons licenses. Hosted by Youtube.