I will list some of the useful digital resources used in medicine today. My focus is mainly videos and medical illustrations which are useful for first year medicine. This list is not exhaustive and additional useful resources will be found in due time and added on here. Check back here often.
It should be noted here that medical illustrations and multimedia resources fall into three main types - public access, commercial packages (some are available free of charge/FOC or with subscription) and institutional repositories (usually FOC). Some institutions also have repositories but which do not allow outside access.
Most medical schools also have medical libraries that subscribe to some of the medical illustrations and multimedia databases or repositories (repositories is the buzz word today). Please enquire from the respective library at your university. For our USM Medical School, the medical library subscribes to many such repositories. However, the use of such resources is minimal, if any as students are unaware or don't know or don't find out. It does take time to find these resources and to familiarise how to navigate them in order to see their worth.
It should also be noted that some illustrations are too simple for first year medicine. They are meant mainly for insight. Students must try to obtain good illustrations from the various resources, especially those with a lot of details and with good layout that is not confusing.
Public Access
YouTube medical videos
- Stanford University - Vascular Disorders of the Central Nervous System
- Human Body - Nervous System
- 3D medical animation by Nucleus Medical Art -- demo reel of animations (in Spanish)
- Patient Education Reference Library (PERL) - Orthopedics -- Knee surgery
-- Normal Anatomy of the Upper Cervical Spine -- Regions of the Spine (female) -- Regions of the Spine (male) -- Anatomy of the Knee Joint -- Vertebral Column -- Cervical Spine and Intervertebral Disc Anatomy (male) -- Cervical Spine and Intervertebral Disc Anatomy (female)
- Nucleus Medical Media - Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery (SVD) -- Cesarean (C-section) --
Commercial (demo/subscription)
A.D.A.M. Images
McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine
Elsevier medical images
Nucleus Medical Art -- Anatomy of the Skull -- Menstruation
Institutional
NWTC Medical Illustration Library
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