VisualDx’s free resources for public health

VisualDx’s free resources for public health
Provides free information and images from VisualDx for the following conditions: cutaneous anthrax, inhalational anthrax, botulism, bubonic plaque, chikungunya, fusarium keratitis, measles, MRSA (methicillin-resistant Sthaphylococcus aureus), pneumonic plaque, septicemic plague, pressure ulcer, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. Unlike the paid version of VisualDx, the website is NOT interactive and does not allow you to enlarge images.

Interactive Images of Disease

Interactive Images of Disease
Maintained by Dr. Gary Velan and hosted by The University of New South Wales, this website is a supplement to their physical museum of human diseases. Includes a collection of interactive images supplemented with information on the history of illness, a description of specimen, and comments about the case. Some images are accompanied with information on microscopic appearances. The images contain “hotspots;” when clicking on certain areas of the image, a brief description of that spot will appear in a frame to the right of the screen. Java software is needed to view images.6 An Images of Disease Lite application is available free to download on iTunes.7

The Urbana Atlas of Pathology

The Urbana Atlas of Pathology
This University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign online atlas includes numerous images for general pathology, cardiovascular pathology, endocrine pathology, pulmonary pathology, and renal pathology along with selected normal images.

Save a Life

Save a Life
Click “Start Demo” for Save a Life to start the interactive demonstration. You will learn to test and operate a defibrillator with a virtual patient. Users must go to defibrillator view, turn the knob from off to 1 DEFIB, connect the defibrillator port with the test defibrillator, adjust the energy level, charge the defibrillator, press the shock button to test the defibrillator, connect the defibrillator pads, and place the defibrillator pads in the correct location on the patient’s body.

Blue Baby

Blue Baby
The University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library’s annotation for the link says, “An interactive case that guides the student through a differential diagnosis in a case of cyanosis in a newborn. This case was developed in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics.”

 

Cat Dissection Videos

Cat, Fish, Frog, Iguana, and Bird Dissection Videos
View videos on skinning the cat, the muscular system, the circulatory system, the urogenital system, the nervous system, and the digestive and respiratory systems. Also includes videos for fish dissection, frog dissection, iguana dissection, and bird dissection.

 

Will’s Skull Page

Will’s Skull Page
Includes skulls of numerous species. There aren’t any quizzes or labels on the skulls, but the site should be helpful for students in veterinary programs since it provides so many skulls in one place.

Interactive Drawings for Veterinary Anatomists

Interactive Drawings for Veterinary Anatomists
May only view one interactive image for free per day. Provides interactive drawings and dissection images for cats, cattle, dogs, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. Covers the following body regions: head & neck, cranial trunk, caudal trunk, thoracic limb, and pelvic limb. The interactive drawings cover the following organ systems: musculoskeletal, digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, lymphatic, peripheral nervous, autonomic nervous, endocrine, urinary, male reproductive, female reproductive, and sensory organs. Click on the drawings to see the names of structures.

Dr. King’s Necropsy Show-and-Tell

Dr. King’s Necropsy Show-and-Tell
A collection of images of tissue specimens with descriptive notes. Provides images for numerous species. Browse the table of contents, search the image library, or quiz yourself with a random image.

The Sheep Brain Atlas

The Sheep Brain Atlas
This Michigan State University website has images of coronal sections and the external surface that can be viewed with and without labels.

Dissection of the Sheep Brain

Dissection of the Sheep Brain
This University of Scranton website includes labeled dissection images with detailed instructions.

Bovine Reproductive Tract Anatomy

Bovine Reproductive Tract Anatomy
This Auburn University website includes includes labeled images of the bovine reproductive tract.

Sheep’s Eye and Brain

Sheep’s Eye and Brain
This Pennsyslvania State University website uses dissection images to quiz you on the sheep eye and brain.

Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection

Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection
This Whitman College website provides images and quizzes on the circulatory, digestive, excretory, nervous, reproductive, and respiratory systems. Adobe Schockwave Player is required to view the images and may be freely downloaded here.

Radiology Masterclass

Radiology Masterclass
The courses and assessments are not free. The tutorials and galleries are. After choosing a tutorial, click “start” in the upper right corner to begin it. You can mouse over images in tutorials to have features be highlighted. The following tutorials are available: CT brain – anatomy, acute CT brain, musculoskeletal x-ray general principles, introduction to trauma x-ray, trauma x-ray upper limb, trauma x-ray lower limb, trauma x-ray axial skeleton, chest x-ray anatomy, chest x-ray abnormalities, chest x-ray systematic approach, chest x-ray quality, abnominal x-ray system and anatomy, abdominal x-ray abnormal bowel gas patterns, abdominal x-ray abnormal calcification, abdominal x-ray abnormal soft tissues and bones, basics of x-ray physics, OSCE presentation tips, and OSCE scoring and check lists. There are numerous galleries of images that correspond to tutorials.

Cat Anatomy Quizzes

Cat Anatomy Quizzes
This Pennsylvania State University website uses dissection images for quizzing you on a cat’s circulatory system, digestive system, muscular system, major nerves, and urogenital system.

Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: List of Specimens

Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: List of Specimens
Includes a variety of images of the brains of 175 species.

Weight Training, Exercise Instruction, and Kinesiology

Weight Training, Exercise Instruction, and Kinesiology
Shows videos of articulations and exercises. For each exercise, the website provides the origin, insert, and activation for the affected muscles. When a muscle action is chosen, a listing of exercises with their thumbnail videos appears. On the left side of the page, choose the links for body maps, the exercise and muscle directory, power training exercises, or cardio exercises.

Sex-Linked Inheritance Problem Set

Sex-Linked Inheritance Problem Set
Click on the “Tutorial” button for explanations on how to solve the multiple-choice problems. “Correct answers are reinforced with a brief explanation.” The “objective is to understand the principles that govern inheritance of genes on sex chromosomes.” Problems include crossing a white-eyed female and red-eyed male fly, test cross of a red-eyed female fly, predicting the offspring of a homozygous red-eyed female fly, predicting genotype when phenotype is known, another white-eyed female x red-eyed male fly cross, hemophilia in humans, red-green color blindness in humans, tracing the inheritance of the human Y chromosome, tracing the inheritance of the human X chromosome, and offspring of human females who are carriers for X-linked traits.

Scientific Stock Photography

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.

Family Medicine Digital Resources Library

Family Medicine Digital Resources Library
A service of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, this website 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.

The Grapes of Staph Home Page

The Grapes of Staph Home Page
The detailed lecture guides include photomicrographs and animations.

MedEdPortal

MedEd Portal
MedEdPORTAL is a portal for peer-reviewed teaching resources. It includes “tutorials, virtual patients, cases, lab manuals, assessment instruments, and faculty development materials.” Available free to the general public, it “covers the continuum of medical education (i.e. undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education)” and “contains descriptive information about published resources and indicates how these materials may be accessed or obtained.”

Pathology Cases – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Department of Pathology

Pathology Cases – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Pathology
Includes numerous cases. You can list and review them by diagnosis and patient history.

Microbiology: Principles and Explorations

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.

SonoWorld: Cases

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.

Mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary

Mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary
Contains over 140,000 definitions with internal links for further clarification of definitions.

PedsCases.com: Pediatrics for Medical Students

PedsCases.com: Pediatrics for Medical Students
The goal of this site created by two medical students and a faculty member is to create a “comprehensive database of pediatric cases and pediatric questions.” Also includes podcasts.

Edheads

Edheads
To see games and tutorials, click on “Choose an Activity!” Helpful healthcare-related activities include Aortic Aneurysm Surgery, Choose the Prosthetic, Deep Brain Stimulation, Nanoparticles and Brain Tumors, Sickle Cell DNA, Stem Cell: Create a Stem Cell Line, Stem Cell: Heart Repair, Stem Cell: Transplant, Trauma, Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery, Virtual Hip Resurfacing Surgery, and Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery. Choose the Prosthetic is a fun, basic simulation game with charts, x-rays and questions on knee replacement for orthopedic residents. Games are for a variety of grade levels (7-12+, 9-12+, 10-12+, and lower). Click here to see the grade levels for particular activities.

DNA Workshop Activity

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.

Pediatric Oncology Education Materials: Interactive Cases

Pediatric Oncology Education Materials: Interactive Cases
Includes five interactive cases for solid tumor (2), lymphoma, hematology, and brain tumor.

Medical Calculations Tutorial

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.

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
This collection of 22,000 freely available digital materials is housed by the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library. Specific collections within HEAL include the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Gallery of Hematology Images, Knowledge Weavers Dermatology Images, Knowledge Weavers ECG Collection (248 images), NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach, Pathology Education Instructional Resource (PEIR), PediNeurologic Exam: A Neurodevelopmental Approach, Poja Histology Collection (oral cavity subset, lymphatic tissues and organs subset, placenta subset, respiratory system subset, and blood and bone marrow subset), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Illustrations, and UCLA Interactive Neuroscience.

Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant

Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant
Includes videos of abdomen exam, cardiovascular exam, eye exam, HEENT exam, neurologic exam, vital signs, chest exam, musculoskeletal exam.

Pediatric Radiology

Pediatric Radiology
This Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital website includes 65 learning modules. One must register to be able to view them. Some examples of modules include the following – child abuse, skeletal trauma, gastroesophageal reflux, appendicitis, childhood stroke, the orbit, leukemia and lymphoma, sickle cell disease, childhood fractures, lines and catheters, radiation safety, and childhood pneumonia.

Surgery Videos: MedlinePlus

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.

You will need Adobe Flash Player to view the programs. You can download Adobe Flash Player for free. To get Adobe Flash Player to work in particular browsers, see these pages for instructions for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari.

The Cardiac Exam: Auscultation

The Cardiac Exam: Auscultation
This Case Western Reserve University webpage includes audio files of numerous normal and abnormal rhythms.

The Auscultation Assistant

The Auscultation Assistant
This University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Medicine website includes audio files of heart murmurs and breathing sounds.

The R.A.L.E. Repository

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).

Surgical Scrubbing, Gowning, and Gloving

Surgical Scrubbing, Gowning, and Gloving
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has posted this seven-minute video.

PediatricEducation.org

PediatricEducation.org
Aimed at residents and fellows, this Web site created by two MDs lets view pediatric cases by disease, specialty, age, and date. Also provides numerous helpful links.

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine

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.

Electronic Fetal Monitoring

Electronic Fetal Monitoring
This free online tutorial for CME credit includes a self-guided tutorial, practice quizzes, case scenarios, videos of fetal tracings, and more.

LUMEN Histology

LUMEN Histology
This Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN) website includes numerous slides visible by clicking “Zoomified Histology.” For quizzes, click on the “practical” links.

The Histology Zoomer

The Histology Zoomer
Yakima Valley Community College has a page with image libraries, quizzes, and tutorials for selected areas of histology.

 

WebAnatomy: Basic Histology

WebAnatomy: Basic Histology
Includes quizzes for organ and tissue identification, epithelial tissue, connective tissue, and histology classification.

ASH (American Society of Hematology) Image Bank

ASH Image Bank
The ASH Image Bank has more than 2,100 images that may be browsed by category or searched by using keyword or by using advanced search techniques. The advanced search allows users to search by title, contributor, or date or search within a specific category. Images are high quality and may be downloaded; one must register for a free ASH account to download images. Images may be used in noncommercial educational settings if credit is given for each image. Each image is accompanied by author, date, size, and a description.

Microbe Invader

Microbe Invader
In this educational game for medical students, go to the happy clinic and meet with Dr. Taylor in the library where there are materials to review. Treat a patient in the clinic by ordering tests, diagnosing the condition, and treating the condition. Then go to the hospital and meet Dr. Taylor in the infectious diseases (ID) department. Then treat patients in the hospital.

Neuropathology

Neuropathology
This site by Dimitri P. Agamanolis, MD, includes quizzes, tests, and information.

Radiology Cases

Radiology Cases
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.”)

The Virtual Autopsy

The Virtual Autopsy
Includes 18 cases; click on systems on the picture of the body to see pathological images. Provides information on cause of death.

myPACS.net

myPACS.net
Includes thousands of cases of normal and abnormal images. They can be searched by anatomy, pathology, and modality.

JayDoc HistoWeb

JayDoc HistoWeb
This is a large repository of histology images.

The Cranial Nerve Experiment

The Cranial Nerve Experiment
Tutorials cover fuctions and paths of cranial nerves. You select a nerve, with the trigeminal nerve subdivided into three branches (ophthalmic nerve, maxillary nerve, and mandibular nerve). You are given a 3-d skull with two views: external view showing the pathway of the nerve and an animated internal that acts like a rollercoaster as it follows the nerve’s path. Users may move backward and forward along the path and mouse over points along the path to see more information. There is one component for the facial nerve and vestibulocochlear nerve.

Virtual Cell Animation Collection

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.

HeadNeckBrainSpine

HeadNeckBrainSpine
There are modules for brain MRI, skull base CT, cranial nerves MRI, temporal bone CT, sinus CT, orbit CT, head CTA, neck CT, thoracolumbar junction CT, teeth panorex, and neck CT cervical lymph node levels. Each module except the last two show axial, sagittal, and coronal cross-sections. Users may move along a single axis using the arrow keys or mouse wheel and along multiple axes by clicking and dragging. Placing the cursor over a named structure highlights it in each view. Users can also choose to permanently highlight individual structures or groups of related structures by using a drop-down menu. You can select ‘‘quiz mode’’ for a simple anatomy quiz. There are 250 cases and some flashcards as well.

You will need Adobe Flash Player to view the programs. You can download Adobe Flash Player for free. To get Adobe Flash Player to work in particular browsers, see these pages for instructions for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari.

Radiopaedia.org

Radiopaedia.org 
Includes encyclopedia entries and patient cases contributed by residents and physicians. The browse by section area includes anatomy and mnemonics.

WeBSurg World Electronic Book of Surgery

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.

 

Blue Histology

Blue Histology 
Includes multiple-choice quizzes (click MCQ Quiz), difficult non-multiple-choice quizzes (click SAQ Quiz), notes with images (click Notes), large histology images (click Large Images), and a virtual microscope (click VScope).

Cardiovascular System Topics

Cardiovascular System Topics
Includes three animated series on the cardiac action potential, the cardiac cycle, and blood pressure regulation. Note from a medical school faculty member: “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.”

Veterinary Anatomy

Veterinary Anatomy 
This University of Minnesota website includes sections for carnivore anatomy, ungulate anatomy, developmental anatomy, neuroanatomy, and planar (MRI & CT) anatomy that include numerous helpful modules and quizzes. Covers gaits and many systems. Includes content on dogs, cats, sheep, horses, cows, camels, pigs, and rabbits.

Medical Spanish for Health Professionals

Medical Spanish for Health Professionals
Includes audio pronunciations for numerous words and phrases that would likely to be spoken by patients and healthcare providers during clinical interviews and emergencies. Sections include clinical interview, medical history, review of systems, medical dictionary, dialogue flashcards, medical vocabulary, and quick quizzes.

Basic Knot Tying and Suturing

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.

A Primer on Reading Chest Radiographs

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.

Chest X-Ray Atlas

Chest X-Ray Atlas 
This Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN) website includes numerous chest x-rays that are organized by pathology, diseases, and signs.

The Visible Embryo

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.

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Embryology – Human Embryology Movies

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Embryology – Human Embryology Movies
Includes numerous animations of development for weeks 1-4 and some regions/systems.

Multi-dimensional Human Embryo Atlas

Multi-dimensional Human Embryo Atlas
Includes MRI and optical images of the embryo in Carnegie stages 13-23. Website was created as the result of a collaboration funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Human Embryology Animations

Human Embryology Animations 
This Indiana University Web site includes numerous developmental animations by system and body area.

Embryo Images Online : Normal and Abnormal Mammalian Development

Embryo Images Online : Normal and Abnormal Mammalian Development 
This University of North Carolina School of Medicine resource uses scanning electronic micrographs (SEMs) to depict complex changes. Most SEMs are from mice because of the limited availability of early human embryos and because embryo development differs little across mammals. There are modules for body form, musculoskeletal system, head & neck, ear, eye, nervous system, cardiovascular system, urogenital system, and digestive & respiratory systems.

Embryological Development of the Human

Embryological Development of the Human
This University of Illinois at Chicago website includes numerous animations based on the Carnegie Collection.

The Six Second ECG

The Six Second ECG >.
Learn normal rhythm and 26 arrhythmias and then play a game in which you have to identify them. Quiz settings can be set using the options as follows: 1-8 minutes, sound on or off, grid on or off, and movement on or off. Adobe Schockwave Player is required to view the images and may be freely downloaded here</a

Practical Clinical Skills

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.

Introduction to ECG Interpretation

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.

Electrocardiogram ECG Game

Electrocardiogram ECG Game
For each of four patients, you place the leads on the body, view the real-time and printed ECGs, and place the ECG into one of four categories (normal, arrhythmia, cardiac infarction, and bundle branch block).

Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) Library

Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) Library
This page is not interactive but provides examples of ECGs for numerous conditions. Also includes tips on how to determine axis with two glances.

EKG 5 Lead Placement Activity

EKG 5 Lead Placement Activity
Place the five EKG leads in the correct locations.

EKG 12 Lead Placement Activity

EKG 12 Lead Placement Activity
Place the twelve EKG leads in the correct locations.

ECG Wave-Maven

ECG Wave-Maven 
This Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center website allows you to quiz yourself, search cases by diagnosis, and browse cases with diagnoses. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.

ECG Quizzes Lessons 1-12

ECG Quizzes Lessons 1-12
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.

WebMD Symptom Checker

WebMD Symptom Checker 
Provides differential diagnoses based on symptoms. Includes questions about each symptom.

Symptom Search by Healthline

Symptom Search by Healthline
Allows you to combine multiple symptoms to determine differential diagnoses.

Lab Tests Online

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.

Diagnosis Life (DxLife): A Medical Adventure Game

Diagnosis Life (DxLife): A Medical Adventure Game
Read through the instructions carefully for these games by Dr. Edward Friedlander of Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience. There are currently two games to download: a patient with fever and muscle aches and a patient with upset stomach and paresthesias. There is another game in the works. If you don’t diagnose and properly treat the first patient within six days, he will die.

Classic Type I-IV Hypersensitivity Reactions in the Skin

Classic Type I-IV Hypersensitivity Reactions in the Skin
This University of Cincinnati website allows you to view animations of the mechanisms, to see clinical photos of the reactions, to learn about differential diagnosis and histology, and to take quizzes on the reactions.

Spot the Fake Smile

Spot the Fake Smile
Twenty videos of smiles test you on whether you can spot if a smile is genuine or fake.

Neurologic Exam: Neurologic Examination Videos and Descriptions…An Anatomical Approach

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.

Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases – Videos

Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases – Videos
To supplement the textbook by the same name, this website includes videos for examinations of mental status, cranial nerve function, motor exam, reflexes, coordination and gait, and sensory exam.

Interactive Neurology

Interactive Neurology
Includes eleven interactive neurology cases.

Headache Interactive On-Line

Headache Interactive On-Line
Includes interactive modules for a migraine headache, a tension-type headache, a cluster headache, and trigeminal neuralgia.

The Virtual Labs Project: Renal

The Virtual Labs Project: Renal
Click on “Renal” for a very detailed physiology tutorial by Stanford. Must have Shockwave to view it.

Synaptic Transmission

Synaptic Transmission
Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.

Learn Your Cutaneous Innervation

Learn Your Cutaneous Innervation
This Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN) website has anterior and posterior views for the upper and lower extremities showing areas innervated by particular nerves.

Animations

Animations
Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ (calcium ion) channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.

Animated Tutorials: Neurobiology/Biopsychology

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 (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid) and NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) 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).

Muscle contraction animations

Muscle contraction animations
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations.

Host Defense

Host Defense
Includes drag-and-drop quizzes on the components of the specific and nonspecific host defense system.

Hemosurf – Demo

Hemosurf – Demo
View normal and abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.

Clotting

Clotting
Includes animations for normal and abnormal clot formation.

University of Kentucky’s Chest Radiology Tutorial

University of Kentucky’s Chest Radiology Tutorial 
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.