Welcome to our Resource Review page! Please leave a comment about any of our resources or recommend a resource by scrolling to the bottom of the page to the reply/comments section. The purpose of our Resource Review is to get faculty and student feedback and recommendations about health sciences resources so that we can establish a “Michener-reviewed” collection for learning and teaching.
Since many in our community have expressed a need for image-related resources, we decided to start there with our review. We are also going to include links to Webcasts, Vodcasts and other multimedia that you might find useful. We hope that you’ll give us feedback about which resources you think are the best and why. We look forward to working with you to create a great list of resources for our Michener learning community!
Image-Related Resources
Expanded! Springer Images
Atlas of Brain Perfusion SPECT
Atlas of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
BringhamRAD-MedShare Cases
Collaborative Case Studies
Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
Free Dicom Viewers
Gold Miner – Library of Peer-Reviewed Radiology Images
Medpix – Medical Image Database
MyPacs – Free Cases – Over 90,000 Images
Nuclear and SPECT Imaging Teaching Files
RTStudents – Nuclear Medicine Resources
Evidence-Based Health Care
Cochrane Library
Cochrane Systematic Reviews investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in a healthcare setting. The database also includes the full text of systematic reviews of empirical methodological studies (Method Reviews) prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.
If there is no review on a specific topic, the other databases in The Cochrane Library will provide information on other good quality reviews and randomized trials. Please note that these are not necessarily full text.
Some available Cochrane tutorials: An Introduction at http://www.brainshark.com/wiley/cochrane1; Advanced and MESH searching at http://www.brainshark.com/wiley/cochrane2; Saving searches and setting alerts at http://www.brainshark.com/wiley/cochrane3.
Multimedia Resources
Ontario Telemedicine Network – Live and Archived Webcasts
I think this is an excellent tool to offer to students and faculty alike! It is sure to enhance the classroom learning experience!
Images.MD is a wonderful tool for our program. The images for genetic abnormalities are excellent teaching tools
A quick note to say that imagesMD is currently only available from within Michener. Since it is only a trial subscription, we do not have remote access.
Fantastic blog site – looking forward to using these rich resources posted here! For example, just found Teaching Cases in Nuc Med at http://www.mcg.edu/sah/brt/radscape/
Great resource for case prep for the summer and fabulous student/faculty resource.
Looks great but there aren’t any Nuclear Medicine images — seems to have everything else though!
The first time I went into Images MD it didn’t seem to be working properly. Tried again and searched for osteoporosis which had quite a bit of info for nuc. I then did a search for Nuclear Medicine and found a good number of images; some also located under Radiology as we sometimes get lumped in with them as diagnostic imaging.
Great website. Would be able to find a good number of images to enhance lectures and tutorials.
Thanks for taking the time to explore images.MD Anna. You are right that there is no category for nuclear medicine. You can, however, find nuc med images by using the search box in the upper right corner and entering key words such as radionuclide, radioisotope, scintigraphy and nuclear medicine. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
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Just my personal opinion: In terms of radiographic images, the quality is poor.
Ultrasound images are old and therefore their quality is not the best.
This is a great site for me as I have just developed a new patholgy course and do not have ready access to case studies and images.
Sue
This is a very good tool especially because of the freedom to use the images for teaching without violation of copyright. It is certainly a valuable resource for Health Sciences in general. At this stage, however, it is of limited use for Laboratory Medicine. It does cover some Histotechnology and Hematology, and a small portion on the microbiological aspect of infectious diseases.
I hope it is further developed to benefit Laboratory sciences.
I was familiar with Images.MD already and recognized it as a source of some of the finest images available for presentation purposes. It’s great for Clinical Chemistry and Physiology (since Clinical Chemistry makes extensive use of physiology also). I doubt there would be any need for me to search for images elsewhere using another search engine. I highly recommend that we get a subscription to this site.
From what I could see, these images might be helpful for reviewing pathology, however they are not suitable for the Rad Tec Methodology courses.
As much of program has been image-based for a few years now, this is a great addition. It will help make a patient case more complete. I would have like to be able to view the full-size images to determine the quality of the.
Unfortunately for us, there are not as many ultrasound images as we were hoping for.. Maybe the others feel that it was useful.
There is definitely an excellent collection of MRI images of various pathologies, along with some decent image interpretations. Despite the poor quality of the images, I still find the site useful.
I found the MRI brain images of poor quality although the pathology demonstated is beneficial to our students. I found this site to be a pathology based site versus an anatomy site in respect to MRI. I do feel it would be beneficial to students to review since not all our clinical sites visualize a variety of pathologies or specific anatomical imaging. We would definitely use this site, thank you
Are we going to be getting a full subscription tohttp://images.md? ( http://images.md/? ) I found it to be a very valuable resource for CT images for the pathology class I’m working in.
We’ve had some very good feedback on images.MD and, based on this, the LRC will be getting a full subscribtion to it in either March or April of this year. It’s good to know that you found it useful.