Medical Image Resources

Online access to FLEXIBOOK Atlases and Textbooks, the popular series of color atlases and pocket textbooks in anatomy, basic science, clinical science, and radiology. Thieme allows teaching materials such as PowerPoint presentations, SoftChalk, Word documents, and WebCT to link directly to pages and chapters in the ElectronicBook Library. Also, individual images in many of the Thieme electronic books may be placed directly into educational materials. http://ebooklibrary.thieme.com/dyn/ebooklibrary/index.php

Includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions. http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html

A multidisciplinary public access image database for use in medical education. http://peir2.path.uab.edu/pdl/dbra.cgi?uid=default&view_search=1

National, digital library contains free, high quality digital materials for health sciences education. http://www.healcentral.org/

Free photographs, illustrations, and multimedia files from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most of the images in the collection are in the public domain and are thus free of any copyright restrictions. If you look directly beneath the image you will see a fair use statement that tells you if the image is public domain or copyright protected. Permission is not required for public domain images, but they do ask that you credit the original institution and contributor. If the image is copyright protected, you will have to contact the content provider to get usage permission. http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp

The Whole Brain Atlas includes still pictures and movies (*.html and *.mpg files) of the brain and neurological diseases. The web site has received favorable reviews from MedWorld Bestsites, Neurosciences on the Internet, and Medical Matrix.
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

The Trauma Imagebank is intended as a repository of quality, useful trauma images on the internet. It is appropriately classified and flexible, with images freely available for use by all. Trauma care professionals from around the world regularly submit images of interest and educational value to the image bank. http://www.trauma.org/index.php/main/images

A free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical teaching materials assessment tools, and faculty development resources. These materials can utilized for educational purposes without legal infringements. http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/segment/mededportal/information/

Information on the biological activities of small molecules; the available databases are - Substance, Compound, and BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

This site is a visual educational resource dedicated to providing pictures that are representative of common and uncommon physical exam findings. They ask that you  provide appropriate credit for the author and the site on any images you use.
http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalimg/

Yale University School of Medicine, Center for Advanced Instructional Media. Development of the site was partially funded by an IAIMS Grant (LM05583) from the National Library of Medicine.
http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/imaging/contents.html

The 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 images are presented in a digital, case-based format that allows both the images and text to be searched, cross-referenced, and hyper-linked to other cases as well as other educational resources.
http://www.ashimagebank.org/

(ASCB)- collection of images, videos, and digital texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell, the fundamental unit of life. May be used in UAMS educational programs. http://cellimages.ascb.org/

Dermatology Atlas--Alphabetized Index http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/medicine/dermatology/melton/atlas.htm

The NIH Image Bank contains images from the collections of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health. Contents include general biomedical and science-related images, clinicians, computers, patient care-related images, microscopy images, and various exterior images. http://media.nih.gov/imagebank/index.aspx

This collection from the National Cancer Institute contains general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images. http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/

HONmedia is an unique repository of over 6'800 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON and new image links are constantly being added from the world-wide Web. http://www.hon.ch/HONmedia/

A collection of 450 medical illustrations, diagrams, and pictures sorted by category or by alphabet. http://www.healthopedia.com/pictures/