Image Resources for Teaching

Copyright Notice: Before using any images please check copyright statements for each site. The majority of the sites listed below allow the use of their material for educational, noncommercial or personal use as long as the source is acknowledged. For more detailed information about image resources available, please contact Judy M. Spak.

Commercial Image Databases

Access to these resources is restricted by IP address to Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

images.MD: images.MD compiles over 50,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.
Images In Surgery (MD Consult): Clinical Image Search is now available from the Current Practice, Clinical Insights area on MD Consult. These images are searchable - results will appear in the global search results and they will be labelled "Clinical Images". You are also able to search images as a separate category in the Search Within drop-down box. Areas covered include Pediatrics, Head and Neck, Skin and Soft Tissue, Genitourinary and Cardiothoracic.
WebPath: WebPath version 9.0 has over 4,700 images, over 3,500 examination questions, 42 case-based laboratory exercises, and 44 subject-specific tutorials. There is a radiologic section with nearly 1,200 correlative radiographs included. There is a cross-sectional anatomy tutorial utilizing Visible Human Project images. There is a histology review section with tutorials and over 200 images.

Yale Image Resources

Biomedical

Congenital Heart Disease (Yale School of Medicine): This web site highlights the important role of dynamic echocardiography as well as other imaging techniques in the care of these patients. The software presumes familiarity with echocardiography and imaging modalities and with medical terminology. It is intended for an audience of physicians and health care professionals. Physicians who may find this site especially useful in practice include internists, pediatricians, surgeons, as well as adult cardiologists and cardiologists in training.
Historical Photo Gallery (Yale School of Nursing): A digital collection of historical materials from the Yale School of Nursing. Includes images of heraldry, class photos and a general image gallery.
Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging (Yale School of Medicine): This multimedia atlas, developed at Yale, provides a comprehensive introduction to cardiothoracic imaging techniques including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), coronary angiography, mammography, chest radiography, echocardiography, SPECT and planar myocardial perfusion imaging, and lung ventilation and perfusion nuclear imaging.

Medical Library Digital Image Collection (Cushing/Whitney Medical Library): The Cushing/Whitney Medical Digital Library is a growing collection of digital resources made available on the Web for scholarship.
New Haven Health (Yale School of Public Health Library): New Haven Health is intended for faculty, researchers, students, administrators, health officials, community organizations, and everyone interested in the public health of the greater New Haven area.

General

Digital Collections at Yale (Yale University Library): The Library's Digital Collections, available via a browser, are listed below. Internet Explorer is the preferred browser for accessing these collections.
Digital Images Database (Yale University Manuscripts and Archives): The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database (MADID) contains digital reproductions of photographs, posters, drawings, text documents, and other images taken from the research collections of Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Image Directories and Databases Elsewhere

Biomedical Databases and Image Repositories

Databases of image files and simulations for download and use.

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL): The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching materials of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
Images from the History of Medicine (National Library of Medicine): This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
MedEdPORTAL(AAMC): MedEdPORTAL is a Web-based tool that promotes collaboration across disciplines and institutions by facilitating the exchange of peer reviewed educational materials, knowledge, and solutions.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching): MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. This link is to the Health Sciences Portal page.

Biomedical Directories

Compilations of link from a variety of sources that contain images.

Hardin MD Medical Pictures/Disease Pictures (University of Iowa): Picture Link Pages have all links to pictures. Picture-enhanced directory pages are existing Hardin MD pages with links to pictures added to the existing links to directory pages. See also Hardin MD : Medical Symptoms .
Medical Pictures and Illustrations (Karolinska Institutet): This page contains links to other pages and sites on the Internet offering biomedically related multimedia material, mostly images (photos, illustrations, etc.). Occasionally, the material may be downloaded and used free of charge. Normally, however, the material is strictly copyrighted, and may be used only after first having obtained explicit permission by the rightful owner.
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) (Centers for Disease Control): PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome 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. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.

General Image Resources

American Memory (Library of Congress): American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library.
Associated Press Photo Archive (courtesy of Yale University Library): The Photo Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. We have a limited number of simultaneous users, so please be sure to use the logout link when exiting.
For more information: FAQ. Access to this resource is restricted by IP address to Yale University.
Google Image Search: Google claims that its Image Search is the most comprehensive on the Web, with billions of images indexed and available for viewing. The Advanced Image Search function allows you to customize your search and to limit your retrieval by such things as image size, coloration or format. You can also choose to return images from a particular domain, e.g., .edu or .org.

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Yale University School of Medicine