LibGuides: Medicine: Images, photographs, apps and podcasts

Image websites - health and medicine

These sites provide medical or health-related images.

Always check the conditions of use of the site to see whether you can reuse the images.

CTIsus
CT scans. This website offers over 154,000 images designed to assist individuals learn how to read them to craft an accurate medical diagnosis. The images are divided into anatomical regions (such as adrenal, chest, and colon, and visitors can browse around at their leisure.
ESkeletons
From the University of Texas at Austin. View bones and data about them, for humans and various other primates. You can also view a bone and compare it between species
Hardin.MD
Collection of resources for health and medicine by the University of IOWA, mostly illustrated.
Pathology Education Information Resource
PEIR includes a multidisciplinary public access image database for use in medical education.
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) from CDC
Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. The CDC welcomes public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages.
Wellcome images
Images from the collections of the Wellcome Library, mostly available for academic use under a Creative Commons licence.
Whole Brain Atlas
From Harvard University.

Images - General

A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images
A wide range of sources, including art galleries, Life Magazine and government bodies. And advice on how to look for images in Google and Flickr which you may reuse for your academic work.

APPs for doctors, patients and anatomy students

Meharry Medical College in the USA provides up-to-date information on paid-for and free apps for medical students, doctors and patients.

ClinicalKey Student This link opens in a new window
Search or browse 85,000 images from medical textbooks. Very useful for revision.

We asked 104 first year Lancaster med students which apps, websites and podcasts they use? Here are their responses!

Making and using clinical recordings

Making and Using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching contains guidance material aimed primarily at students, teachers or doctors who wish to use a patient recording or patient data for learning and teaching. It will also be of interest and use to other clinical and healthcare workers as well as to university staff where patient recordings are made available for learning and teaching.