Resource of the Month

Are you looking for clinical images for your lectures or PowerPoint presentations? Try searching the images.MD (iMD) database of over 50,000 images in general areas of medicine. On campus, you can choose images.MD under Databases on the UAMS Library website or you may go directly to: www.imagesmd.com. From off-campus, you must enter iMD through the Library’s website.

For a quick image find, explore the images on the opening iMD page by browsing by collection or specialty. For a sophisticated search, select “Advanced Search” and find the keyword search form. Here, you can limit your search by medical specialty, image type such as a chart/graph, artwork, or photograph, image modality, clinical descriptors, and collections which includes diseases. You can select more than one limit by holding down the Ctrl key, but be aware, you may find few results if you limit too much. See the image search below for charts or photographs of tuberculosis during disease diagnosis.

Another feature of iMD is the ability to search, store, and create a PowerPoint presentation within “My Slides” in your own personalized profile. From the opening iMD page, register and create a username and password. Once you sign into your personal iMD account, you can use these features.

You can save images in two ways. You can “right click” on an image and select “save image as” to save the image on your computer. Once you save the images from iMD, the images will remain available for your use.

If you would like to save images into your personalized account at images.MD, you can add these images to a slideset by selecting the (+) for each image in iMD. Once you select all your slides, choose “My Slides” and you can preview your show. To create a PowerPoint presentation through iMD with a maximum of 20 images, choose “create PowerPoint presentation” in the “Slideset Option,” and enter your email address. The show will be sent to your email account where you can open and develop your accompanying slides.

For a virtual tour of this resource, select iMD Tour. The Library will also offer a demonstration of this resource at the next Friday@Noon. We will meet in COPH building, room G226 at noon on Friday, September 10, 2004.

If you have any questions, please contact the UAMS Library Reference Services Department at 686-6734 or libraryreferencedesk@uams.edu Mon-Friday 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. or the Library Learning Resource Center (LRC) at 686-6752 all the hours the UAMS Library is open, or the ACH Library at 364-1801.

The College of Medicine and the UAMS Library are sharing the cost of the subscription images.MD.

Abby Holt
Campus Outreach Liaison

Jan Hart
Chair,
Education and Reference Services