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Multimedia Collections

The following is a list of multimedia sites available to UMDNJ users. For access to licensed collections from outside of UMDNJ, you will be prompted to login with Remote Access/EZProxy Services. Unrestricted sites available to the general public are so noted.

Additional resources are available in the Media & Microcomputer Center located in the G.F. Smith Library (Newark), and the Media Library of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (Piscataway)

Multimedia Description
an@tomy.tv Stat!Ref anatomy.tv offers detailed 3D models of human anatomy that can be rotated, sectioned and stripped to different layers. Users can study various body regions and test themselves by using the customizable quiz maker. Includes other supportive materials, such as MRIs, videos, slides, and biomechanical actions. Users are free to download any graphics to their desktops.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Volumes 1 to 12

Volumes 13 to 18

Note: You may experience sluggish performance when bandwidth consumption is high at the university.

These streaming videos show step-by-step examinations with rationales for the clinician's actions and contains expanded discussions of health history taking, interviewing, and describing findings. Graphics illustrate key components of anatomy and physiology.

Contents: v.1. Head, eyes and ears--v.2. Nose, mouth and neck--v.3. Thorax and lungs--v.4. Cardiovascular : neck vessels and heart--v.5. Cardiovascular : peripheral vascular system--v.6. Breasts and axillae--v.7. Abdomen--v.8. Male genitalia, hernias, rectum, and prostate--v.9. Female genitalia, anus, and rectum--v.10. Musculoskeletal system--v.11. Nervous system : cranial nerves and motor system--v.12. Nervous system : sensory system and reflexesv--v.13. Approach to patient--v.14. Head-to-toe assessment of the adult--v.15. Head-to toe assessment of the infant--v.16. Head-to-toe assessment of the child--v.17. Head-to-toe assessment of the older adult--v.18. General survey, vital signs, and skin.

Minimum system requirements: PC installed with Windows98 or higher, Internet Explorer version 5.5 or higher, latest version of Windows Media Player, DSL or cable modem, 800Mhz processor or faster.

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MACINTOSH

Dermnet Dermnet is a website that contains over 9,000 images of skin disease. It is an educational resource for medical professionals. Pictures are sized to fit into Powerpoint presentations for use in live lectures. Publishing or posting the pictures on a website requires written permission.

Available to the public

DnaTube DnaTube is a scientific video site encouraging scientists to upload videos of their studies, lectures and seminars.

Available to the public

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.

Available to the public

HealthyNJ - Images This section from HealthyNJ links to assorted image sites on the web. There are atlases of dermatology, pathology, ophthalmology and more.

Available to the public

Images from the History of Medicine Provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. 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.

Available to the public

images.MD images.MD images.MD compiles over 50,000 images from 90 collections, ranging from allergy to cardiology to neurology to pediatrics to urology, each accompanied by detailed and informative text contributed by more than 2000 medical experts. It is the first continuously updated online encyclopedia of medical images.
MedPix - Medical Image Database Online peer reviewed radiology teaching files. MedPix™ is provided by the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. The material is organized by disease category, disease location (organ system), and by patient profiles. The database can be searched through multiple internal search engines. In addition, search formulations can be sent directly to PubMed, or to other outside search engines. Registered users may browse the image database through a "slide sorter" module.

Available to the public

NCME TV

Requires personal account

NCME TV is a series of continuing medical education video programs on important topics of interest to primary care physicians, hospitalists, and other specialists. The Web-based programs fall into four main categories: Masters Programs on Critical Topics in Medicine, State-mandated CME Topics, Programs Covering Hospital Quality/Performance and Credentialing Issues, and Late-Breaking and Hot Topics. Programs are presented in a grand rounds style. Every month a new CME video is developed and released. Note: Older titles on the site may say 'Available on DVD/VHS only'. Please search for these in the catalog, we may already have a copy.

Instructions to establish a personal account

3D Multimedia Approach to the Diagnosis of Low Back Pain This product is aimed at medical students, residents and attending physicians, to enhance the education of those evaluating individuals with low back pain. In this Case participants will be able to visualize 3D interactive virtual reality and multimedia images of the subjects, experience the physical examination as it occurs using interactive digital video clips, review the diagnostic testing procedure, develop differential diagnosis, review the anatomy (including 3D interactive multimedia full color images taken inside the body), understand and review the diagnosis, and self-test their learned knowledge using a traditional, and/or our novel computerized method.
Videos in Clinical Medicine These teaching videos from the New England Journal of Medicine are intended to help students, trainees, and younger physicians to learn procedural techniques from experienced colleagues. Each video is from five to eight minutes long and is accompanied online by a printable summary to supplement the video. Available in streaming and download versions.
Wellcome Images Wellcome Images is constantly updated with new clinical, and biomedical and historical images from the Wellcome Library, Europe's leading resource for the study of history of medicine which recently re-launched as part of the new and forthcoming Wellcome Collection. All content has been made available under a Creative Commons Licence, which allows users to copy, distribute and display the image, provided the source is fully attributed and it is used for non-commercial purposes.

Available to the public

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