Physician Assistant
Anatomy
Blood
Blood
This excerpt from John W. Kimball’s online biology textbook covers the blood’s function, cells, and cell fragments.
Blood Typing Game
Give the three patients the right type of blood or you will endanger their lives. Look at “Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions” here and the disclaimer here to better understand the different blood types. Then you are ready to play the quick game in which you pick up the needle, use it to draw blood out of the patient’s elbow area, state what type of blood the patient has, drop the needle over the three test tubes to see the blood typing results, and then drag blood bags to the pole to give the patient blood. There is also a mission-based game. The old version of the game is available here.
Bloodline Image Atlas
“This fully searchable directory features more than 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies.” One can use a categorical index or keyword search to access the images.
Get Body Smart’s Blood and Blood Cell Quizzes
Includes visual quizzes for hematocrit, total RBC count, blood typing, WBC differential count, and clotting (coagulation) time.
Hemosurf – Demo
View normal and abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
Cardiovascular System
Within athletic training, kinesiology, and nursing also see the section for blood. Within medical technology, also see the section for hematology. Within osteopathic medicine, also see the section for hematology within the molecular fundamentals of medicine section.
HeartScape
Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additional quizzes, please click here.
Learn Your Arteries
Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.
Map of the Human Heart
Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.
Shockwave animations – Hyper Hearts
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
Digestive System
Abdominal Organs
Place the abdominal organs in their correct locations.
Dissection Images & Videos
Anatomy Guy
Includes dissection prep and dissection review videos for the back & spine, thorax, upper limb, lower limb, abdomen, pelvis, and head & neck. Also includes a blood histology review and some videos for imaging, clinical, and surgical subspecialties topics.
Ithaca College Gross Anatomy Joints – labeled dissection images for joints
Laboratory dissections practice practical – Human Anatomy Online: An Interactive Tutorial and Reference
Choose an area of the body on the right to see quizzes for cadaveric images of the head and neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, back, osteology, upper extremity, and lower extremity. Click on “table of contents” at the top of the screen, choose a section, and then click on “laboratory dissection procedure” to see cadaveric images in which you can click on items for them to be pointed out in the image.
LUMEN Dissector – videos
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources – videos (click on “More Features” and then “Dissection videos”)
General A&P Resources
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
AnatQuest
One section provides “cut-away views of the front, side and top of the entire male body.” The other section labels anatomic objects in the male chest area.
BBC – Human Body and Mind
Play drag-and-drop games to test your abilities to correctly place items in the muscular and skeletal system. Quiz yourself on nervous system connections and the senses. Learn interesting facts about physiology.
Get Body Smart
Includes exceptional interactive tutorials on the human skeletal system, muscular system, muscle tissue physiology, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology. One may turn labels off to quiz oneself on anatomy.
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.
HHMI’s BioInteractive
Includes animations on hearing, heart circulation, and invasions of bacteria and viruses. Includes modules on obesity, cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular, DNA, RNA, biological clocks, infectious diseases, immunology, and genomics and chemical genetics.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources
Within each dissection section of this University of Michigan Web site are dissection videos, clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, practice quizzes, practice quizzes, review items, and lecture videos. The website also includes sections for radiology images, surface anatomy, and surgical videos.
The Anatomy Lesson
Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
The Virtual Labs Project
Need Adobe Shockwave Player installed to view this website. This Stanford University website includes interactive tutorials with animations for cardiovascular system, cranial nerves, gastrointestinal system, medicine/pharmacy, neurology, renal system, respiratory system, the visual system, other topics, and reviews of muscular anatomy and skeletal anatomy.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Muscular System
Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.
Facial Muscle Action Illustrated
In the drawing, click on a muscle to see videos of its action(s) and read information about it.
Get Body Smart Muscle Tissue Physiology
Tutorials cover the location and organization of muscle fibers, nerve supply to muscle fibers, and contraction of muscle fibers. Quizzes cover general characteristics of muscle fibers and internal organization of muscle fibers.
Learn Your Muscles
For each muscle, it provides an image that highlights the muscle and provides information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order or by region.
Muscle Atlas – Upper Extremities and Lower Extremities
Upper extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas/
Lower extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas2/
Depicts each muscle and gives information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order.
Muscle contraction animations:
Purdue North Central
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Nervous System
3-D Brain Anatomy
Learn the locations and functions of major brain sections on this 3-D model that you can rotate and zoom within. You can also explore the brain by area or function.
Animated Tutorials: Neurobiology/Biopsychology
Includes animated tutorials for neuronal development, synaptic transmission, the action potential, the resting membrane potential, sensitization in aplysia, the voltage clamp method, AMPA and NMDA receptors, sound transduction, the vestibular system, visual pathways in the human brain, receptive fields in the retina, reflex arcs, receptors of the skin, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
Animations
Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.
Cranial Nerves – Introduction
Provides an anatomical diagram of the cranial nerves, lists their functions, and allows you to take quizzes on the information. Also has a quiz on cranial nerve trivia.
Cranial Parasympathetics
Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.
Interactive Neuroanatomy Atlas
Within each section of this atlas from Columbia University are numerous images with listings of contents on which you can click an item to see it highlighted in the image. Click on “select lab here” at the top of the screen to choose one of the following sections: surface anatomy, internal structure, vasculature, somatic sensory system, sensory cranial nerves, visual system, auditory system, descending motor pathways, cerebellum, basal ganglia, vestibular and oculomotor systems, hypothalmus, limbic system, clinical case images, atlas – myelin stained sections, atlas – surface anatomy, and magnetic resonance images.
Learn Your Cutaneous Innervation
Has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular nerves.
Learn Your Nerves
Click on drawings to learn the names, spinal cord segment(s), and muscular innervation(s) of individual nerves for the cranial nerves, cervical plexus, brachial plexus, and lumbosacral plexus.
Pathway Quizzes in Neuroanatomy
Includes eighteen quizzes for pathways in the anterolateral system, dorsal column, trigeminal system (pain/temp), trigeminal system (touch), visceral sensation and taste, visual system, vestibular system, auditory system, corticospinal tract, corticobulbar tract, vestibulospinal tract, spinocerebellar tract, corticopontocerebellar tract, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, olfactory system, Circle of Papez, and limbic system.
Synaptic Transmission
Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.
The 12 Cranial Nerves
This interactive tutorial includes cute animations to show what the cranial nerves control.
The Brain: Anatomy and Function
Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Radiologic Anatomy
HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Click “skip intro.” Click “review normal” for an overview of normal radiographic anatomy of the chest and instructions on how to interpret a chest x-ray. Click “go to first case” to view 10 cases of common abnormalities. Within the cases, you can click on an icon to view a normal x-ray.
Introduction to Radiology (Includes Chest Radiology)
This University of Virginia School of Medicine website includes modules for chest radiology, ICU chest films, hi-resolution chest CT, CT pulmonary angiography, cardiac MR, radionuclide localization, gastrointestinal radiology, genitourinary radiology, emergency body CT, emergency ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, imaging of the cervical spine, skeletal trauma, head CT, the basics of PETCT, pediatric radiology, and radiobiology. Modules include sections for anatomy, interpretation, pathology, and a post test. The post test for chest radiology includes 30 tests on anatomy, technique, and pathology.
LUMEN Cross-Sectional Tutorial
Includes MRI, CT, and images for cross-sections of the following regions: head and neck, upper limb, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and lower limb. Includes male and female thorax and pelvis cross-sections. Note from Shannon King: in cross section # 8 in the lower limb section, the answer to #1 should be tibialis anterior instead of extensor digitorum.
LUMEN Radiological Anatomy
Includes plain film, CT, and MRI images. Click on the image for anatomical labels.
Radiopaedia.org
Includes encyclopedia entries and patient cases contributed by residents and physicians. The browse by section area includes anatomy and mnemonics.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Skeletal System
Skeletal System
Provides detailed quizzes on labeling bones and landmarks. Write down your answers and compare them to the correct answers.
Skull Anatomy Tutorial
Includes interactive images for four basic views of the skull: one anterior, one lateral, and two inferior.
Spine: Normal Anatomy
Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.
The Bone Box
Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.
The eSkeletons Project
Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.
The Skull Practical Exam
Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.
Upper Extremities
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Learn the Brachial Plexus in Five Minutes or Less
Shows how to draw a diagram of the brachial plexus.
Urinary System
Interactive Kidney Illustration
Includes simplistic illustrations and descriptions of anatomical components of the kidney.
Nephron Function
Click on the circles beside proximal tubule, loop of Henle, distal tubule & collecting duct, and overview. Register for free with MedEd Portal to download a zip file with the animation. One can open the .swf file with Shockwave or RealPlayer.
The Renal System
Click on “Renal” for a very detailed physiology tutorial by Stanford.
Auscultation
Blaufuss Heart Sounds and Cardiac Arrhythmias
Includes a heart sounds tutorial, a heart sounds quiz, a high-and low-frequency sounds program, a physiological splitting of the second heart sound, an ECGviewer, a frontal axis demo, and an SVT tutorial.
Practical Clinical Skills
Includes tutorials for heart sounds, lung sounds, EKGs, abdominal sounds, and blood pressure. Also includes cases for carotid artery bruit and pulmonary problem solving. Also includes short courses that provide auscultation training by repetition.
The Auscultation Assistant
Includes audio files of heart murmurs and breathing sounds.
The Cardiac Exam: Auscultation
This Case Western Reserve University webpage includes audio files of numerous normal and abnormal rhythms.
The R.A.L.E. Repository
Click on “Repository” to read an introduction or listen to sounds: normal (vesicular, tracheal, bronchial, and bronchovesicular), wheezes (3), crackles (3), and other sounds (grunting, stridor, and squawk).
Databases
Dermatology
Classic Type I-IV Hypersensitivity Reactions in the Skin
View animations of the mechanisms, see clinical photos of the reactions, learn about differential diagnosis and histology, and take quizzes on the reactions.
VisualDx
VisualDx includes an interactive tool for finding differential diagnoses based on visual findings. Includes information on conditions with visual findings. Also includes components for international travel, child abuse recognition, terrorism recognition, oral mucosa, drug eruptions, external eye visual findings, fever and rash, smallpox vaccination, CA-MRSA, pressure ulcer staging, marine exposures, cellulitis differential diagnosis, female anogenital visual findings, male anogenital visual findings, immunocompromised conditions, nail and distal digit visual finding; and bites, stings, and infestations.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis Pro
This website created by a physician provides differential diagnoses based on symptoms. Also provides information on drugs and diseases in outline form.You may choose to freely register with the website. Be patient with the website; it can sometimes be slow, and sometimes you will need to start over if you click things too quickly.
Lab Tests Online
The American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) produces this peer-reviewed, non-commercial, patient-centered website that includes information on lab tests and conditions. Reference ranges are not provided for the majority of tests.
Symptom Search by Healthline
Allows you to combine multiple symptoms to determine differential diagnoses.
WebMD Symptom Checker
Provides differential diagnoses based on symptoms. Includes questions about each symptom.
ECGs
Cardiovascular System Topics
Includes three animated series on the cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle, and blood pressure regulation. Note from Dr. Fitzovich on the cardiac action potential tutorial: “Be careful about control of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium release in cardiac cells because it is mediated by calcium influx, not depolarization of the SR. Also note that a ‘funny current’ due to a special sodium channel is responsible for the pacemaker function.”
ECG Quizzes within the ECG Learning Center
Created by Frank G. Yanowitz, Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, this website includes a variety of quizzes on ECGs. Website also includes an ECG outline, an image index, an American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) clinical competence section, a long pdf outline, and a feedback form.
ECG Wave-Maven
This Harvard Web site allows you to quiz yourself, search cases by diagnosis, and browse cases with diagnoses.
EKG 12 Lead Placement Activity
Place the twelve EKG leads in the correct locations.
EKG 5 Lead Placement Activity
Place the five EKG leads in the correct locations.
Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) Library
Provides examples of ECGs for numerous conditions.
Heart: Rhythm Disorders
Describes and animates the electrical events for normal sinus rhythm and atrial fibrillation.
Introduction to ECG Interpretation
University of Wisconsin Medical School’s primer provides an introduction to ECG interpretation; six clinical cases with questions; tutorials for axis, basic concepts, fascicular block, hypertrophy, infarct, rate, and rhythm; a summary of ECG interpretation, guidelines for ECG interpretation, and a form for feedback.
Practical Clinical Skills
Includes tutorials for heart sounds, lung sounds, EKGs, abdominal sounds, and blood pressure. Also includes cases for carotid artery bruit and pulmonary problem solving. Also includes short courses that provide auscultation training by repetition.
Shockwave animations – Hyper Hearts
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
The Six Second ECG
Learn arrhythmias and then play a game in which you have to identify them. For quizzes that cover rhythms, ACLS algorithms, and drugs, click here. To view the pages properly in Internet Explorer 8, you must click on the button for “compatibility view.”
Embryology
Development of Human Embyrology
See the section for newer animations based on the Carnegie Collection.
Embyrology Images Online
This companion website for books by William J. Larsen includes animations, updates, self-tests, and glossaries. Chapters cover the first week, second week, third week, fourth week, peripheral nervous system, embryonic folding and lungs, heart, vasculature, gastrointestinal tract, urogenital system, limbs, head and neck, central nervous system, integument, and fetal development. Not every chapter includes animations or updates.
Human Embryology Animations
This Indiana University Web site includes numerous developmental animations by system and body area.
Multi-dimensional Human Embryo Atlas
Includes MRI and optical images of the embryo in Carnegie stages 13-23.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Embryology – Human Embryology Movies
Includes numerous animations of development for weeks 1-4 and some regions/systems. Includes sectional images here. Podcasts are available here.
The Visible Embryo
“The Visible Embryo is a visual guide through fetal development from fertilization through pregnancy to birth.” Click on the fetus to learn about fetal development; clicking on the curved line leads one to information on maternal symptoms.
Family Medicine
Family Medicine Digital Resources Library
A service of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, this Web site provides user-posted curricular materials and conference presentations, such as PowerPoint lectures, syllabi, video and audio recordings, learning modules, recommended Web sites, and more. You can search the collection by keyword and filter results by audience, type of learner, type of material, and more.
Free Resources
ADA Technical Assistance CD-ROM
Receive a free CD-ROM of ADA guidelines from the U.S. government.
Altimate Medical
Free products include DVD and VHS videos on EasyStand products, an interactive CD-ROM, “Life After SCI” DVD, funding guide to standing technology, EasyStand Evolv brochure, and a Standing 101 educational package. Fill out the form on the website above to receive one or all of these items.
Amputee Coalition of America
Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Science-related DVDs, videotapes, CD-ROMs, and publications are available to scientists, educators, and librarians.
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
This quarterly guide for patients and families “brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website.”
Radiological Terrorism: Just in Time Training for Hospital Clinicians, VHS tape or DVD
This is “a brief, 17-minute video covering key radiation principles and radiological procedures. Includes demonstrations on application of these principles and procedures in several patient care scenarios in an emergency services setting.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order copies of the training in VHS or DVD format, send an email message to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating VHS or DVD format, the number of copies, mailing address, and phone number. Please indicate “Radiological Just in Time Training” in your request.”
Radiological Terrorism: Medical Response to Mass Casualties CD-ROM
“The program is designed for physicians and nurses working in emergency services in hospital first receiver settings.” It can be viewed online, or you can request a free copy. “To order a copy of the CD-ROM version, which is designed for Windows®2000 or XP, send your mailing address to cdcinfo@cdc.gov, indicating the number of copies.”
Rehab Management
To get to the form from the home page listed above, click on the link for “Free Subscription” on the left. The subscription form can be found at http://www.submag.com/sub/rm.
Stretching Exercise Program from Visual Health Information (VHI)
“Choose from 74 stretching exercises to create easy-to-read, professional looking stretching routines your clients and athletes will love! With this easy to use drag and drop program, you can create, customize and print a stretching routine in minutes.”
Stroke Connection Magazine
This page consists of the form that needs to be completed to get a free bimonthly subscription to this American Stroke Association magazine that is aimed at stroke survivors.
Tools RG
Tools RG provides a demo CD that includes sketches of exercises that can be used with patients. Click on “Request a Demo CD” on the right side of the page.
General Medical Resources
Consumer Health Resources
Altimate Medical
Free products include DVD and VHS videos on EasyStand products, an interactive CD-ROM, “Life After SCI” DVD, funding guide to standing technology, EasyStand Evolv brochure, and a Standing 101 educational package. Fill out the form on the website above to receive one or all of these items.
Amputee Coalition of America
Receive amputee-related materials and a free subscription to In Motion magazine. All materials are aimed at amputees.
DynaMed
DynaMed includes information on drugs and conditions. It has clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics that are in an outline form that can be used efficiently in clinical settings. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed. You can click on “recently updated” to see the entries that have been modified today and learn what was changed.
You may wish to click on “Weekly Update” periodically to read the latest update or sign up for the free weekly email. Prepared by the clinician members of the DynaMed Editorial Team, DynaMed Weekly Update is a compilation of blurbs about one to five articles selected from DynaMed’s Systematic Literature Surveillance as articles most likely to change clinical practice. This source will be helpful for finding articles for a journal club.
DynaMed provides free access for PDAs and mobile devices. Please email Lisa Travis at lisa.travis@lmunet.edu to request a serial number to download it to a mobile device for one year; you can renew your access after a year if you are a LMU student or LMU-DCOM alumnus.
Familydoctor.org
The American Academy of Family Physicians provides a medical dictionary, a drug guide, and information on health concerns and self-care.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes encyclopedias for medicine, cancer, alternative medicine, nutrition, diagnostic imaging, and diets. The search interface can appear in Spanish, French, and Portugese; you may change your language by clicking on “preferences” in the upper right corner. The search results can be mechanically translated into Chinese (simplified), French, German, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, and Spanish. To do this, choose a language in the pull-down menu within the item of interest and click “translate;” please note that mechanical translations are likely to contain errors. Includes Countries and their Cultures, the New Encyclopedia of Africa, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Also includes encyclopedias for arts, business, history, education, environment, law, religion, science, and social sciences. Must login to the LMU proxy to access. Tennessee residents may freely access this resource through their local public library; contact your local public library for details.
Health Information in Multiple Languages
Provides limited health information in 45 languages. All MedlinePlus consumer health resources may be translated into Spanish by clicking on the “espanol” link in the upper-right corner of each page – see health topics, drugs & supplements, encyclopedia, dictionary, news, and more.
MayoClinic.com
Provides information on conditions, diseases, health conditions, and prescription drugs. Provides healthy lifestyle planners for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, managing stress, and quitting smoking.
MEDLINEplus
MEDLINEplus provides access to information to help consumers answer health questions. It is a good place to start for consumers conducting research on diseases and prescription drugs. It brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the United States Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies, non-profit agencies, and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. Also includes patient education materials.
Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
This quarterly guide for patients and families “brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website.”
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Primarily provides information on anatomy, conditions, diseases, and mental health topics.
Other Links for Health Information in Multiples Languages:
24 Languages Project: Health Education Brochures in Multiple Languages
Health Information Translations
Health Translations Directory - can also conduct an advanced search
Japanese Family Health Program (University of Michigan)
NSW Health Department Multicultural Health Communication Service
Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
S.P.I.R.A.L. – Info in Asian Languages
SafeMedication.com
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists provides patient information on drugs and how to administer them.
Stroke Connection Magazine
This page consists of the form that needs to be completed to get a free bimonthly subscription to this American Stroke Association magazine that is aimed at stroke survivors.
UpToDate
This is a resource with original, peer-reviewed entries for 20 medical specialties to allow practitioners to keep current with new clinical developments, be more confident in diagnosis and treatment decisions, and answer clinical questions more efficiently. It offers information in the specialties of adult and pediatric emergency medicine; adult primary care and internal medicine; allergy and immunology; cardiovascular medicine; dermatology; endocrinology and diabetes; family medicine; gastroenterology and hepatology; general surgery; geriatrics; hematology; hospital medicine; infectious diseases; nephrology and hypertension; neurology; obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health; oncology; palliative care; pediatrics; psychiatry; pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine; and rheumatology. Information in UpToDate on drugs and drug interactions is provided by Lexi-Comp. Also includes patient education materials.
YourHealthInformation.com
In addition to current news on conditions and diseases, this website provides a drug resource center, a source for investigating symptoms, and explanations for medical tests and procedures.
Current Events and News
Government Resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Provides publications, statistics, and information on diseases and other health topics.
ClinicalTrials.gov
Find out if a clinical trial exists for a topic of interest. Use the advanced search to limit to geographical area, type of study, age group, and more.
DIRLINE – Directory of Health Organizations
This is a searchable directory of health organizations.
Evidence-Based Practice
Includes numerous links and completed evidence-based clinical reports on cancer and blood disorders, kidney conditions, lung conditions, dietary supplements, and more.
Healthfinder.gov
Provides access to databases, medical dictionaries, a medical encyclopedia, health and medical journals, and more.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Includes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
National Institutes of Health
Provides links to all of the government health institutes. Of particular interest are the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) , the National Institute on Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) , the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) , and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Office of Rare Diseases
Provides access to current events and archived news articles, general information, genetics information, research and clinical trials, and research resources.
World Health Organization
Click here for a list of health topics for which information is provided. Includes international medical statistics here.
General Medical Information
Also see the government resources.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Includes downloadable PowerPoint presentations, evidence-based medicine tools, downloadable research articles, and information on courses and events.
Medscape Reference (formerly eMedicine)
Free registration allows one to view over 6,300 articles on diseases and conditions, over 2,100 drug monographs, more than 650 clinical procedures articles, and 70 anatomy articles.
Statistics
CDC: Data and Statistics
This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.
HIT: Health Information Tennessee
Includes reports, tables, vital statistics, health facilities data, and county profiles.
National Center for Health Statistics
This statistical arm of the CDC provides vital statistics and statistics on disease classification, healthy people, minority health, injuries, and aging. Additional data is culled from data collection systems which include the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) , the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS).
Health Literacy
Health Literacy course
This site provides a link to the online course that is required for EPC IV.
Health Literacy Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
The overview section provides a video, In Plain Language (15 minutes), and a slide presentation. The Web site includes reports, patient materials, and bibliographies. Also includes information on how to create and assess print materials.
Health Literacy Videos Online
Includes links to two videos created by the AMA Foundation: “Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand” (23 minutes) and “Low Health Literacy: You Can’t Tell by Looking” (18 minutes).
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
One may read the entire book online by clicking on “read online for free.” One may also download the report as a pdf file by clicking “download the report.”
Misperceptions of Medical Understanding in Low-Literacy Patients: Implications for Cancer Prevention
One may read the entire book online and/or view a short video on the report.
Smith on Social Marketing: 90 Million Americans Need Health Literacy
This brief article provides tips for improving health literacy.
Kinesiology
Arthrokinematics and Osteokinematics
Provides illustrations and definitions. Two animations show what happens during joint movements when the convex bone is fixed and when the concave bone is fixed.
Goniometry Website
Includes four categories of tests: upper extremities, lower extremities, spine, and TMJ. Has images showing the test position for measurements and provides textual information on the test position, normal range, goniometer alignment, and normal end feel.
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Kinesiology Flash Cards
Has 119 flash cards with definitions.
Kinesiology Lecture Topics
University of Oklahoma’s Dave Thompson provides lecture notes for numerous kinesiology topics.
Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System, book website
Requires free registration to access materials. Once you have logged in, click on “Neumann: Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System.” Next click on “Course Documents.” Then click on “Evolve Resources.” Includes study questions and lecture guides that can act as study aids. Also includes videos on arthrokinematics of the lower extremity, arthrokinematics of the upper extremity, normal versus abnormal glenohumeral arthrokinematics, and the kinesiology of flexing and extending the finger.
Muscles in Action
Shows videos which illustrate the meanings of elevation/depression, eversion/inversion, flexion/extension, circumduction, and more.
Neurologic Exam: Neurologic Examination Videos and Descriptions…an Anatomical Approach
This website’s authors are professors for the University of Utah School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. It includes videos and quizzes for mental status exam, cranial nerve exam, coordination exam, sensory exam, motor exam, gait exam, and neurological cases. Each section covers anatomy, normal exam, abnormal examples, a quiz, and media resources. You must have your pop-up blocker disabled in your Internet browser to view the videos and quizzes. This website must be viewed in its entirety by LMU-DCOM osteopathic medical students completing their required behavioral health and neuropsychiatry rotation; it has been added to the rotation documents section of Blackboard for the rotation.
Weight Training, Exercise Instruction, and Kinesiology
Shows videos of articulations and exercises. Provides the origin, insert, and activation for the affected muscles. On the left side of the page, choose the links for body maps, the exercise and muscle directory, power training exercises, or cardio exercises.
Medical Law
Federal Law
Congressional Acts (U.S. Code) and Current Legislation (Bills)
U.S. Supreme and Federal Court Opinions
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/index.html
Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations and other Federal Publications
State Law
Tennessee General Assembly – Public Acts and Statutes and Current Bills
Federal and State Agencies
General Directory of Federal Agencies
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Government Accounting Office
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office for Civil Rights (HIPAA)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Tennessee Department of Health
Healthcare Law Search Engines
Medical Terminology
MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
This dictionary results from a partnership between the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Merriam-Webster.
mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary
Contains over 140,000 definitions with internal links for further clarification of definitions.
Web Anatomy: Self Tests for Medical Terminology
Includes three quizzes on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Most terms cover the cardiovascular system.
Microbiology and Immunology
Microbiology
Microbiology: Principles and Explorations
The table of contents is listed here and is needed to locate other content. Includes animations, chapter overviews, and practice quizzes.
Photomicrographs
Includes photomicrographs of algae, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi.
Science Animations
Includes links for animations on the e. coli infection mechanism, viral infection, herpes infection, and more.
Scientific Stock Photography
Includes “over 1,500 light microscopy images and electron microscopy images (colorized and black & white)” of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and other organisms.
Study Cases
This University of Florida College of Medicine website includes numerous cases that you can view in review mode or quiz mode in the following categories: introduction to microbiology and basic infectious disease concepts (2), virology cases (10), bacterial physiology and genetics (2), endocarditis (2), upper respiratory tract infections (4), pulmonary diseases (9), GI diseases (6), CNS infections (6), skin infections (5), genital and urinary tract infections (5), zoonotic diseases (10), mycology cases (3), and parasitic diseases (9).
The Grapes of Staph Home Page
The detailed lecture guides include photomicrographs and animations.
Urinalysis
Urinalysis: A Comprehensive Review
This article from American Family Physician includes numerous tables that list pathological conditions associated with abnormal findings. Includes illustrations of epithelial cells, renal tubule cells, casts, and crystals.
Neuroscience
Headache Interactive On-Line
Includes interactive modules for a migraine headache, a tension-type headache, a cluster headache, and trigeminal neuralgia.
Interactive Neurology
Includes eleven interactive neurology cases.
Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases – Videos
To supplement the textbook by the same name, includes videos for examinations of mental staus, cranial nerve function, reflexes, coordination, gait, and senses.
Neurologic Exam: Neurologic Examination Videos and Descriptions…an Anatomical Approach
This website’s authors are professors for the University of Utah School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. It includes videos and quizzes for mental status exam, cranial nerve exam, coordination exam, sensory exam, motor exam, gait exam, and neurological cases. Each section covers anatomy, normal exam, abnormal examples, a quiz, and media resources. You must have your pop-up blocker disabled in your Internet browser to view the videos and quizzes. This website must be viewed in its entirety by LMU-DCOM osteopathic medical students completing their required behavioral health and neuropsychiatry rotation; it has been added to the rotation documents section of Blackboard for the rotation.
Patient with Broca’s aphasia
This patient understands what is being said to him and has meaningful, brief, and agrammatical speech.
Patient with Wernicke’s aphasia
Note that this patient understands the question, “How many years were you a dentist?” but does not appear to understand the question, “Where do you live?”
Also see the nervous system links within the anatomy and physiology sections.
Spot the Fake Smile
Twenty videos of smiles test you on whether you can spot if a smile is genuine or fake.
Pathophysiology
A Primer on Reading Chest Radiographs
This very detailed tutorial has 13 sections with over 350 slides. Following a section about the tutorial, there are 12 sections for lines and tubes, bones & soft tissues, trachea, air that shouldn’t be there, the mediastinum, the aorta, some basic principles, the A-P window, the heart, diaphragms and sulci, pleural space, the hilium, and the lungs. The second page includes the menu of sections, which is also inserted before the beginning of each new section.
Case Studies: Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Includes 13 cases that include images, findings, patterns, and differential diagnoses.
Chest X-ray Atlas
Includes numerous chest x-rays that are organized by pathology, diseases, and signs.
Epocrates Rx
One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes helpful tables.
Eye Simulator/Virtual Patient Simulator
See what happens when to eye movement and pupil dilation when nerves and muscles are not working. Select a button in the top window to go to the Eye Movement Simulator, the Pupil Response Simulator, or the Patient Cases. Created by Rick Lasslo, M.D., M.S., Gary Henderson, PhD, and John Keltner, M.D., of the UC Davis School of Medicine.
HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays
Click “skip intro.” Click “review normal” for an overview of normal radiographic anatomy of the chest and instructions on how to interpret a chest x-ray. Click “go to first case” to view 10 cases of common abnormalities. Within the cases, you can click on an icon to view a normal x-ray.
Introduction to Radiology (Includes Chest Radiology)
This University of Virginia School of Medicine website includes modules for chest radiology, ICU chest films, hi-resolution chest CT, CT pulmonary angiography, cardiac MR, radionuclide localization, gastrointestinal radiology, genitourinary radiology, emergency body CT, emergency ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, imaging of the cervical spine, skeletal trauma, head CT, the basics of PETCT, pediatric radiology, and radiobiology. Modules include sections for anatomy, interpretation, pathology, and a post test. The post test for chest radiology includes 30 tests on anatomy, technique, and pathology.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. Also includes patient education materials.
Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
MyPACS.net
Includes thousands of cases of abnormal images. They can be searched by anatomy, pathology, and modality.
Office of Rare Diseases
Provides access to current events and archived news articles, general information, genetics information, research and clinical trials, and research resources.
Here are three sources of radiology cases.
Case in Point
LearningRadiology.com’s Case of the Week Archives
AuntMinnie.com’s Case of the Day
One must register to use this resource; registration is free. To see today’s case, click “View today’s Case.” To view past cases, click “View past cases here.”
Radiopaedia.org
Includes encyclopedia entries and patient cases contributed by residents and physicians. The browse by section area includes anatomy and mnemonics.
SonoWorld: Cases
Includes pathological ultrasonography images for the abdomen, hepatobiliary system, spleen, gastrointestinal system, appendix, peritoneal cavity, mesentry and omentum, adult renal system, and the biliary system.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Seventeenth edition
Coverage of illnesses and conditions varies in depth and length, with the more detailed entries providing information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, etiology and pathogenesis, and more.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
UpToDate
This is a resource with original, peer-reviewed entries for 20 medical specialties to allow practitioners to keep current with new clinical developments, be more confident in diagnosis and treatment decisions, and answer clinical questions more efficiently. It offers information in the specialties of adult and pediatric emergency medicine; adult primary care and internal medicine; allergy and immunology; cardiovascular medicine; dermatology; endocrinology and diabetes; family medicine; gastroenterology and hepatology; general surgery; geriatrics; hematology; hospital medicine; infectious diseases; nephrology and hypertension; neurology; obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health; oncology; palliative care; pediatrics; psychiatry; pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine; and rheumatology. Information in UpToDate on drugs and drug interactions is provided by Lexi-Comp. Also includes patient education materials.
Pharmacology
About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
This information resource is provided by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Service.
AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill provides access to more than 60 medical titles, including the Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment series, Tintinalli’s emergency medicine text, and Goodman & Gilman’s pharmacology text. Also includes updated content, images and illustrations, interactive self-assessments, videos, audio files, board review practice questions, drug information, diagnostic tests, guidelines, quick answers, case files, patient education, clerkship materials, and a comprehensive search platform. Users are able to view from and download content to a mobile device. There is a limit of five concurrent users at any given time.
ASHP Drug Product Shortages Management Resource Center
“The purpose of this resource center is to provide pharmacists and others responsible for patient care and for drug product acquisition and inventory management with appropriate information, sources of information, and guidance about managing drug product shortage” situations.
DynaMed
DynaMed includes information on drugs and conditions. It has clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics that are in an outline form that can be used efficiently in clinical settings. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed. You can click on “recently updated” to see the entries that have been modified today and learn what was changed.
You may wish to click on “Weekly Update” periodically to read the latest update or sign up for the free weekly email. Prepared by the clinician members of the DynaMed Editorial Team, DynaMed Weekly Update is a compilation of blurbs about one to five articles selected from DynaMed’s Systematic Literature Surveillance as articles most likely to change clinical practice. This source will be helpful for finding articles for a journal club.
DynaMed provides free access for PDAs and mobile devices. Please email Lisa Travis at lisa.travis@lmunet.edu to request a serial number to download it to a mobile device for one year; you can renew your access after a year if you are a LMU student or LMU-DCOM alumnus.
Epocrates Rx
One must register and create your own login for this resource. Includes information on diseases, drugs, and drug interactions. Also includes helpful tables.
Food and Drug Information: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Check here for the latest alerts.
Medical Calculations Tutorial
Click on “Start the MedCal Tutorial Without Credit” to avoid registering and logging in. Three modules cover fractions, decimels, liquid volume conversions, dosage calculations, medication administration, intravenous therapy, and more.
MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
Reports safety information and adverse events for medications and medical devices. You can sign up to receive free emails of the alerts.
Micromedex
This is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care. It includes information on drug interactions, IV compatibility, and drug comparisons. Also includes a drug identification tool, calculators, and formularies. Also includes patient education materials.
Disclaimer: According to license restrictions, this resource can only be used for educational and training purposes by Lincoln Memorial University students and faculty in the health sciences and is not to be used for any clinical care, emergency, or commercial purpose. Do not access this resource from a clinical setting.
The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database provides evidence-based information on natural and alternative medicines and therapies. The following information is provided for each natural medicine ingredient: full monograph, safety, effectiveness, adverse reactions, dosage/administration, mechanisms of action, interactions with drugs, interactions with herbs, interactions with food, interactions with lab tests, interactions with diseases, also known as, people use this for, editor’s comments, references, patient handout (English), and patient handout (Spanish). Users may also click a link to be shown all products that contain the ingredient. The database also includes the Clinical Management Series with CE/CME entries and quizzes on complementary therapies for common conditions.
PDR.net
Registration is required for membership, and membership is free to U.S.-based medical students and residents as well as MDs, DOs, NPs, and PAs in full-time patient practice. Provides access to PDR eBooks, PDR’s concise drug information, full FDA-approved product labeling, a multi-drug interaction checker,
Search Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 Database - Includes Section 182 for Substances Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS)
Title 21 covers food and drugs. Dr. Babos refers to section 182 for Substances Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) in lectures. To browse a section, choose the section and click search.
This platform allows one to see all of the books in STAT!Ref Medical (20 books) and STAT!Ref Nursing (14 books), and the collection unique to LMU (2 books). Includes an evidence-based resource from the American College of Physicians (ACP PIER). Also includes ACP Medicine and Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology and provides coverage of pediatric nursing, natural products, culturally competent care, diagnostic tests and procedures, and more. In ‘Basic’ searches, you can retrieve links to specific chapters in each book title or you can conduct a keyword search of one or more specific books with ‘Advanced’ searches. Clicking on a selection shows detailed information in full-text format complete with tables and graphics. In addition to the books, STAT!Ref also includes databases such as MedCalc3000, Point-of-care tools, and learning resources. STAT!Ref titles are also found in the Piper Catalog. There is a limit of 7 concurrent users at any given time.
UpToDate
This is a resource with original, peer-reviewed entries for 20 medical specialties to allow practitioners to keep current with new clinical developments, be more confident in diagnosis and treatment decisions, and answer clinical questions more efficiently. It offers information in the specialties of adult and pediatric emergency medicine; adult primary care and internal medicine; allergy and immunology; cardiovascular medicine; dermatology; endocrinology and diabetes; family medicine; gastroenterology and hepatology; general surgery; geriatrics; hematology; hospital medicine; infectious diseases; nephrology and hypertension; neurology; obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health; oncology; palliative care; pediatrics; psychiatry; pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine; and rheumatology. Information in UpToDate on drugs and drug interactions is provided by Lexi-Comp. Also includes patient education materials.
Physical Assessment
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Includes physical examination videos of systems, body regions, and patients by age. Unlike other databases, your user name is your full email address.
System Requirements
- 56 kbs modem or higher speed broadband connection to the Internet;
- Audio speakers or headphones
Windows
- Windows Media Player version 9 (or above) or VLC Media Player
- use Internet Explorer as your browser; JavaScript must be enabled; do not useFirefox
Mac
- Download and install software that will allow your Mac to read “.wmv” files. Recommended: VideoLan’s VLC Media Player available from http://www.videolan.org/
- For Safari users (Mac only): Click on the video you want. Follow the instructions for downloading the file to your Mac. Once the file has finished downloading, browse your hard drive for the file. Double click on the file to run it. You will be asked which application you want to use to run the file. Choose VLC. Your video should start automatically.
- For Firefox users (Mac only): Click on the video you want to view. A pop-up box will appear asking which software you want to use to open the file. Browse your Mac for VLC. Click on VLC, click OK and your video will start playing automatically.
Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant
Includes videos of abdomen exam, cardiovascular exam, eye exam, HEENT exam, neurologic exam, vital signs, chest exam, musculoskeletal exam.
Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant: A Pediatric Assistant
Has videos for four developmental stages: infant (newborn to 12 months), toddler (1 year to 4 years), child (4 years to 10 years), and adolescent (10 years to 18 years).
Physiology
Cardiovascular System
Within athletic training, kinesiology, and nursing also see the section for blood. Within medical technology, also see the section for hematology. Within osteopathic medicine, also see the section for hematology within the molecular fundamentals of medicine section.
HeartScape
Includes a review of and quizzes on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Covers the mechanical and electrical structures of the heart. For additional quizzes, please click here.
Learn Your Arteries
Click on images to learn the names of the various arteries in the body.
Map of the Human Heart
Provides an anatomical diagram of the heart and has a moving image of how blood moves through the heart.
Shockwave animations – Hyper Hearts
Includes animations of heart circulation, an EKG, a graph of pressure readings and ventricular volume, and a graph of heart sounds. Also includes brief tutorials on atrial systole, isovolumetric contraction, rapid ejection, reduced ejection, isovolumetric relaxation, rapid ventricular filling, and diastasis.
Cells
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
Animated Tutorials: Molecular Biology
Dr. Henderson recommends the following animations: life cycle of an mRNA, life cycle of a protein, mRNA splicing, and translation.
Cell Motility, Myosin, and Extravasation
The eight-minute-long video entitled “Inner Life” shows cell motility. Page also includes a link to a detailed animated tutorial on myosin that focuses on myosin 2 and myosin 5 and a link to an animated tutorial on rolling neutrophils, integrin activation, transendothelial migration, and extravasation in leukocytes (neutrophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes).
CELLS alive!
Interactive exercises allow you to examine cell structures, see the stages of mitosis, and learn about the immune system, the cell cycle, cell structure and function, and microbes.
Cellular transport animations
Following an overview, this website provides annotated animations on membranes, diffusion/osmosis, passive transport, and active transport.
Citric Acid Cycle
This Wiley site provides animations and review questions for sections for an introduction, cellular location, cyclic overview, catabolism, anabolism and catabolism, sources of acetyl-coa (fatty acidcs, amino acids, and monosaccharides), reactants and products, cyclical reaction pathway, fate of acetyl-coa carbon, regulation: inhibition, regulation: activation, energetics (anaerobic and aerobic), and anaplerotic reactions.
ETC animations
“This animation of the Electron Transport Chain (ETC) is designed to show the major events. For the sake of clarity the protein complexes in the membranes are shown as “blobs”….compounds turn blue when they are reduced and red when oxidized.”
Glycolysis animations
“For the sake of clarity this animation of glycolysis does not show the enzymes that catalyze each reaction, and only the carbon skeletons of the intermediates are shown. You should note the major stages in glycolysis, especially the changes in energy content.”
Virtual Cell Animation Collection
Includes animations for atp synthase, the electron transport chain, protein trafficking, protein modification, protein recycling, insulin signaling, constitutive secretion, regulated secretion, mitochondrial protein transport, photosynthesis (light), photosystem II, mitosis, transcription, regulated transcription, mRNA processing, mRNA splicing, translation, and lac operon. Created by the North Dakota State University Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Center.
Eyes
Eye Simulator/Virtual Patient Simulator
See what happens when to eye movement and pupil dilation when nerves and muscles are not working. Select a button in the top window to go to the Eye Movement Simulator, the Pupil Response Simulator, or the Patient Cases. Created by Rick Lasslo, M.D., M.S., Gary Henderson, PhD, and John Keltner, M.D., of the UC Davis School of Medicine.
General A&P Resources
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
AnatQuest
One section provides “cut-away views of the front, side and top of the entire male body.” The other section labels anatomic objects in the male chest area.
BBC – Human Body and Mind
Play drag-and-drop games to test your abilities to correctly place items in the muscular and skeletal system. Quiz yourself on nervous system connections and the senses. Learn interesting facts about physiology.
Get Body Smart
Includes exceptional interactive tutorials on the human skeletal system, muscular system, muscle tissue physiology, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology. One may turn labels off to quiz oneself on anatomy.
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
Includes the full-text of this landmark publication along with over 1,000 images and a subject index with 13,000 entries.
HHMI’s BioInteractive
Includes animations on hearing, heart circulation, and invasions of bacteria and viruses. Includes modules on obesity, cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular, DNA, RNA, biological clocks, infectious diseases, immunology, and genomics and chemical genetics.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources
Within each dissection section of this University of Michigan Web site are dissection videos, clinical cases, anatomy tables that provide descriptions and significance for body parts, practice quizzes, practice quizzes, review items, and lecture videos. The website also includes sections for radiology images, surface anatomy, and surgical videos.
The Anatomy Lesson
Includes numerous practice examinations and examination keys. Also includes numerous modules with radiological images and cross-section drawings.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images as well as tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items. Along with pathologic images, it also includes images of normal anatomy and neuroanatomy from The Visible Human Project. Also includes electron microscopy histology images, tutorials for histotechniques and special stains; and procedure manuals for routine stains, special stains, and laboratory safety.
The Virtual Labs Project
Need Adobe Shockwave Player installed to view this website. This Stanford University website includes interactive tutorials with animations for cardiovascular system, cranial nerves, gastrointestinal system, medicine/pharmacy, neurology, renal system, respiratory system, the visual system, other topics, and reviews of muscular anatomy and skeletal anatomy.
Visible Human cross sections
Includes CT, MRI, and labeled and unlabeled cross-sectional images.
Heredity
Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.
DNA workshop activity
In this activity, you must match bases to make two new DNA strands, match DNA and RNA bases to make a mRNA strand, and match tRNA anticodons to mRNA codons. Requires Adobe Shockwave to run properly.
Sex-linked inheritance problem set
Click on the Tutorial button for explanations on how to solve the problems.
Immune System
Host Defense
Includes drag-and-drop quizzes on the components of the specific and nonspecific host defense system.
Muscular System
Also see the muscular system section of the Get Body Smart website for origins, actions, attachments, innervations, and animations of movements.
Facial Muscle Action Illustrated
In the drawing, click on a muscle to see videos of its action(s) and read information about it.
Get Body Smart Muscle Tissue Physiology
Tutorials cover the location and organization of muscle fibers, nerve supply to muscle fibers, and contraction of muscle fibers. Quizzes cover general characteristics of muscle fibers and internal organization of muscle fibers.
Learn Your Muscles
For each muscle, it provides an image that highlights the muscle and provides information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order or by region.
Muscle Atlas – Upper Extremities and Lower Extremities
Upper extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas/
Lower extremities: http://www.rad.washington.edu/atlas2/
Depicts each muscle and gives information on origin, attachments, action, and innervation. Muscles are listed in alphabetical order.
Muscle contraction animations:
Purdue North Central
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations
Superficial Muscles Tutorial
This interactive website helps one learn the names and locations of major superficial muscles.
Nervous System
3-D Brain Anatomy
Learn the locations and functions of major brain sections on this 3-D model that you can rotate and zoom within. You can also explore the brain by area or function.
Animated Tutorials: Neurobiology/Biopsychology
Includes animated tutorials for neuronal development, synaptic transmission, the action potential, the resting membrane potential, sensitization in aplysia, the voltage clamp method, AMPA and NMDA receptors, sound transduction, the vestibular system, visual pathways in the human brain, receptive fields in the retina, reflex arcs, receptors of the skin, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
Animations
Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.
Cranial Nerves – Introduction
Provides an anatomical diagram of the cranial nerves, lists their functions, and allows you to take quizzes on the information. Also has a quiz on cranial nerve trivia.
Cranial Parasympathetics
Click on a nucleus to see the pathway.
Interactive Neuroanatomy Atlas
Within each section of this atlas from Columbia University are numerous images with listings of contents on which you can click an item to see it highlighted in the image. Click on “select lab here” at the top of the screen to choose one of the following sections: surface anatomy, internal structure, vasculature, somatic sensory system, sensory cranial nerves, visual system, auditory system, descending motor pathways, cerebellum, basal ganglia, vestibular and oculomotor systems, hypothalmus, limbic system, clinical case images, atlas – myelin stained sections, atlas – surface anatomy, and magnetic resonance images.
Learn Your Cutaneous Innervation
Has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular nerves.
Learn Your Nerves
Click on drawings to learn the names, spinal cord segment(s), and muscular innervation(s) of individual nerves for the cranial nerves, cervical plexus, brachial plexus, and lumbosacral plexus.
Pathway Quizzes in Neuroanatomy
Includes eighteen quizzes for pathways in the anterolateral system, dorsal column, trigeminal system (pain/temp), trigeminal system (touch), visceral sensation and taste, visual system, vestibular system, auditory system, corticospinal tract, corticobulbar tract, vestibulospinal tract, spinocerebellar tract, corticopontocerebellar tract, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, olfactory system, Circle of Papez, and limbic system.
Synaptic Transmission
Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.
The 12 Cranial Nerves
This interactive tutorial includes cute animations to show what the cranial nerves control.
The Brain: Anatomy and Function
Learn about the functions and deficits associated with brain structures and test yourself on brain functions.
The Plastinated Brain
View frontal, transversal, and sagittal slices. Also includes surface anatomy, vascular anatomy, and MR tomography.
The Whole Brain Atlas
View normal and abnormal CT, MRI, and PET images.
Skeletal System
Skeletal System
Provides detailed quizzes on labeling bones and landmarks. Write down your answers and compare them to the correct answers.
Skull Anatomy Tutorial
Includes interactive images for four basic views of the skull: one anterior, one lateral, and two inferior.
Spine: Normal Anatomy
Click on “Spine: Normal Anatomy” to see moving images of the spine and learn about its anatomy and physiology.
The Bone Box
Provides quizzes on the names of bones and landmarks.
The eSkeletons Project
Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.
The Skull Practical Exam
Take quizzes on the skull parts and landmarks.
Tissues
Animal Tissues
Includes images and information on epithelial, muscle, connective, nerve, and blood tissues.
Upper Extremities
Hand Kinesiology
Provides diagrams and information on the hand’s bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
Learn the Brachial Plexus in Five Minutes or Less
Shows how to draw a diagram of the brachial plexus.
Urinary System
Interactive Kidney Illustration
Includes simplistic illustrations and descriptions of anatomical components of the kidney.
Nephron Function
Click on the circles beside proximal tubule, loop of Henle, distal tubule & collecting duct, and overview. Register for free with MedEd Portal to download a zip file with the animation. One can open the .swf file with Shockwave or RealPlayer.
The Renal System
Click on “Renal” for a very detailed physiology tutorial by Stanford.
Psychiatry
Statistics
CDC: Data and Statistics
This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.
HIT: Health Information Tennessee
Includes reports, tables, vital statistics, health facilities data, and county profiles.
HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook
Associate Professor at Rice, David Lane, created this online textbook and online collection of links to other helpful sources.
Keith Bower’s Six Sigma Podcast
These podcasts cover moving range charts, p-values, equivalence tests, Gosset’s t-Test, and more.
National Center for Health Statistics
This statistical arm of the CDC provides vital statistics and statistics on disease classification, healthy people, minority health, injuries, and aging. Additional data is culled from data collection systems which include the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) , the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS).
CDC: Data and Statistics
This clearinghouse includes interactive tools, publications, vital statistics, statistics by topic, and an annual report on trends in health statistics.
HIT: Health Information Tennessee
Includes reports, tables, vital statistics, health facilities data, and county profiles.
National Center for Health Statistics
This statistical arm of the CDC provides vital statistics and statistics on disease classification, healthy people, minority health, injuries, and aging. Additional data is culled from data collection systems which include the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) , the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS).
Surgery
Amputation videos by level
Provides videos and surgical outlines for knee disarticulation, partial calcanectomy, transfemoral amputation, transtibial amputation, and transmetatarsal amputation.
Basic Knot Tying and Suturing
This Boston University Medical Campus Web page includes step-by-step textual instructions, images, and videos for the one hand tie, two hand tie, instrument tie, simple interrupted stitch, and vertical mattress stitch. Links to videos are located after the instructions on the suture pages. Only includes video for loading a needle holder. Only includes textual instructions and images for the basic square knot.
Edheads
To see games and tutorials, click on “Choose an Activity!” Helpful activities include Aortic Aneurysm Surgery, Choose the Prosthetic, Deep Brain Stimulation, Nanoparticles and Brain Tumors, Stem Cell: Create a Stem Cell Line, Stem Cell: Heart Repair, Stem Cell: Transplant, Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery, Virtual Hip Resurfacing Surgery, and Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery.
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JB&JS)
Includes freely-available streaming surgery videos for the shoulder, elbow/arm, hip, knee, spine, foot/ankle, and hand/wrist.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources
See link for surgical videos on the bottom left; includes surgical videos for the thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and head & neck.
Surgery Videos: MedlinePlus
This page provides links to prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures. These are actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States. The videos last an hour. Please note that you cannot send in questions by email, though the webcast may say that you can, because you are not seeing these videos live. The videos are in Flash format. You will need Flash Player to view the programs. You can download Flash Player for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/.
Surgical Scrubbing, Gowning, and Gloving
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has posted this seven-minute video.
The Global Library of Women’s Medicine
Free registration allows one access to videos of basic techniques, laboratory tests, and surgical procedures and techniques. Also includes book chapters, atlases, and patient information.
WeBSurg World Electronic Book of Surgery
Free registration allows one to view surgical intervention videos, operative technique chapters, lectures, experts’ interviews, and debates between experts.
WISE-MD (Web Initiative for Surgical Education)
You must register using your LMU email address and create a password. You must verify your email address by clicking on a link in an email you will receive upon registering. The login for CLIPP also works for Web Initiative for Surgical Education (WISE-MD). Includes 18 interactive modules for third-year medical students to use during their surgery clerkship. More modules are planned. Current modules cover abdominal aortic aneurysms, adrenal adenoma, anorectal disease, appendicitis, bariatric surgery and obesity, bowel obstruction, breast cancer surgery, burn management (in preview), carotid stenosis, cholecystitis, colon cancer, diverticulitis, hernia, hypercalcemia, pediatric surgery: hernia & hydrocele, skin cancer, thyroid nodule, and trauma resuscitation. WISE-MD was jointly developed by the Department of Surgery and the Division of Educational Informatics at NYU in furtherance of this mission with the support of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the Association for Surgical Education (ASE).