Subject and Course Guides: Biomedical Visualization: Images, Audio & Video

Multimedia Tools

AccessMedicine
Explore videos by system or category, patient education modules, images & more. Limited to 16 simultaneous users.
AccessSurgery
Includes surgical procedure videos, animations, and images. Limited to 10 simultaneous users.
McGraw-Hill's AccessSurgery.com is an integrated online resource organized around the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandate for a Core Curriculum.

* Surgical Videos: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
* Surgical Animations: Adapted from Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition
* Textbooks: Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, 8th Edition
* CURRENT Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment, 12th Edition
* Surgical Atlas: Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition
* Surgical Anatomy: Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy
* Board Review: Surgery Review Illustrated and Schwartz's Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review, 8th Edition
* Quick Answers: CURRENT Consult Surgery
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
The Video Atlas was originally intended to be used by individual medical and dental students. Because of its realism, simple language, and three-dimensional quality, the Video Atlas has become popular with students and teachers in many other fields and also with people not on a professional learning path who are looking for information about human anatomy. Includes captions.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination, 5th edition
Bates' visual guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. Bates' Visual Guide features Bates' physical examinations skills videos, as well as OSCE Clinical Skills videos. Includes captions.
The fifth edition provides all new updated videos, completely re-shot since the 4th edition.The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed video journal. Includes captions and transcripts.

Note: to create a JoVE test for a video, you need to create an account and then register as either a professor or student. Then you need to click confirm under Newsletter to complete the registration.
UpToDate
UpToDate is an online, peer-reviewed clinical decision support tool with topic reviews covering symptoms, tests and diagnosis, and treatment options for over 8,500 conditions.

Note: UpToDate will extend the reverification of individual account to 180 days effective 3/25/2020.

Note: In order to maintain uninterrupted on campus or remote/mobile access to UpToDate, you must verify your continued affiliation with UIC by logging in to your UpToDate account on campus or via remote VPN once every 90 days.

New England Journal of Medicine Procedure Videos
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Videos in Clinical Medicine from NEJM include topics ranging from Basic Splinting Techniques to Umbilical Vascular Catheterization.

VisualDX
VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety.

Note: users can also sign up for a FREE VisualDx Personal Account by clicking the Quick Registration Link below while on your institution Wi-Fi network or VPN. VisualDX Institutional Login
Access provided courtesy of the College of Medicine.

Online Sources for Images & More

OPENi
Open access biomedical image search engine includes clinical images, charts, etc.
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From the OpenI FAQ web page: "OpenI is the service of the National Library of Medicine that enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images (including charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections. Searching may be done by text queries as well as by query images. OpenI provides access to over 1.6 million images from about 580,000 PubMedCentral articles and 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports."
PubChem
Chemical database focused on the biological activities of small molecules.
NCBI Structure Database
Also called the Molecular Modeling Database. View 3D structures, locate similar compounds, and more.
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
A collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education. The collection is now housed at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library.
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Images from the historical collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Includes a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.
Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
PHIL is the gateway to the Center for Disease Control's digital images.

Usage of Images

Images that are in the public domain or where the copyright has been consigned to the Library may be used freely, with attribution, for research, study and educational purposes. For permission to publish, distribute, or use an image for any other purpose, please look for any Request Permissions link near the image. Unsure where to look? Ask a librarian. Please attribute images to the source.

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Biomedical Visualization: Images, Audio & Video

Multimedia Tools

Online Sources for Images & More

Usage of Images

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana