Medical Images

For personal research or for your PowerPoint presentations - but remember to record and cite your source!

Image Databases

• National Library for Health Image Search: one search, multiple databases
  
• Images MD: 50,000 annotated images (Athens login)
  
• Human Anatomy Online
  
• Wellcome Images: 40 000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences and historical images from the Wellcome collections.
  
• Health Education Assets Library (free registration required)
  
• Public Health Image Library from the CDC
  
• Merck's core clinical practice imagesfrom the popular medical textbook
  
• Anatomic Images Online (NLM): Visible Human Project
  
• Google Images: the last resort . . . or the first quick search
  

Medical Cartoons & Clipart

• Mediclicks Nexium Cartoon Page
  
• Medical Clipart from Coolclips
  

Historic & Art

• Gray's Anatomy: 1,247 engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, and a subject index with 13,000 entries
  
• Historical Images in Medicine from Duke University
  

Referencing Images

It is essential that a reader can trace and check the image you used - provide the source (library, database, web site), name of image, reference or ID no and any other identifying information (photographer, event, date) that is appropriate.

Miscellaneous Links

• Institute of Medical Illustrators
  
• Technical Advisory Service for Images
  
• Medical Images and Illustrations: Huge set of links from the Karolinska Insititute, Sweden
  
• EKHT's Medical Illustrations Department: policies and forms