Description: Could be useful for communication skills. The speaker at the meeting was Andrew Knight of ACCPK Consultants, supported by his wife Cynthia, who is from Pakistan. He drew on their shared experience of planning health communication both at the village level in Pakistan and for multi-ethnic communities in Britain.
Report of a meeting of the Information Design Association
At the September 1996 meeting of the IDA, Andrew Knight of ACCPK Consultants persuasively advocated a community-centred approach for creating better health care information. Drawing on diverse projects undertaken in village Pakistan and commuter-belt England, Andrew reminded us to get close to our audience. This meeting report has been written by Roger Stotesbury of Infocus Marketing Communications; the report was then edited and formatted by Conrad Taylor.

Description: Basic online atlas of the body from the American Medical Association. Copyright reserved however.

Description: CAREO is a project supported by Alberta Learning and CANARIE that has as its primary goal the creation of a searchable, Web-based collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators across the province and beyond. CAREO (Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects) is being undertaken by the the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Athabasca University in cooperation with BELLE (Broadband Enabled Lifelong Learning Environment), CANARIE (Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research in Industry and Education), and as a part of the Campus Alberta initiative. There are some medical images and resources in the repository.

Description: VADS provides visual arts digital resources. Based at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. VADS is part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). VADS subject areas include: Fine Art; Design; Architecture; Applied Arts; History & Theory; Media; Museum Studies & Conservation; Professional Practice

Description: 52,000 high quality images - free to Higher Education. 15,000 images from the National Arts Slide Library; 15,000 images from the Hulton Getty Picture Post collection dating from 1938 to 1957; 15,000 images from the James Valentine postcard archive of photography over the past 100 years plus items from George Cowie and Robert Adam collections; 7,000 images from the Social and Political History of Great Britain from 1859 to the present day.

Description: "MedEthEx Online" is a series of exercises in medical ethics and communications skills. The goal of the program is to enable medical students and physicians to improve their knowledge of medical ethics and their skills in communicating about ethical issues with patients and their families. This site contains an interactive ethics program that was developed at the MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine through a generous grant by The Greenwall Foundation. Each case is designed to simulate a patient encounter through the use of video images, photo images, and sound.

Description: Description: This website offers a library of anatomical objects consisting of a collection of photo-based QTVR objects produced from real anatomical specimens.

Description: A demo site of an interactive web-based learning center designed to teach medical students the fundamental principles of physical examination. State-of-the-art, web-portable technologies have been used to bring the sights and sounds of the physical examination alive.

Description: A freely available resource featuring electronic atlases, illustrations of whole brains and sections from a variety of mammals.

Description: Images of plastinated preparations of head and neck specimens for use in gross dental anatomy teaching.

Description: Innovative multimedia resources to support health sciences education including animations, ECGs, photographs & illustrations and video. Includes animated heart and many neuroanatomy features.

Description: The eSkeletons Project website allows you to view the bone anatomy of humans, baboons, and gorillas and learn about the important morphological and muscular features of the skeleton. The selection pages allow you to choose which bone you want to view. Once you've selected the bone and launched the Interactive Viewer, you will be able to view several images of the bone as well as interactively select image "overlays" depicting major muscle origins and insertions as well as articulations and morphological features. There are quicktime movies and VRML files available for just about all of the bones so you can get an idea of the three-dimensional bone morphology. It is also possible to view bones from different animals side-by-side to compare the differences and similarities using the "comparative anatomy" link.

Description: Donal Shanahan's site - Donal is an ACETS member.

Description: Free RLO resources in this website which is made at Ncl.

Description: This is a great site I have been in touch with the authors I think that they would let us use bits. There are some bugs tho.

Description: Elsevier Science material. Please note that MQB has EXCELLENT links with the relevant publishers here and would like to involve them in the ACETS project, we need to choose our timing tho so that we make a good impression.

Description: Includes on-line interactive atlases, 3-D views of thoracic organs reconstructed from 1 mm cryosections of a cadaver specimen,2-D and 3-D views of the knee from cadaver sections, MRI scans, and computer reconstructions. It contains 3-D computer graphic reconstructions of brain material; MRI scans; tissue sections, some enhanced with pathways; gross brain specimens and dissections; and summary drawings.

Description: 3D anatomical imagery, animations, and multimedia.

Description: The site features: Central Nervous System and Brain, The Features the primary components of the human central nervous system. Identifies the main structures of the brain and their roles in controlling body systems and maintaining homeostasis. Examines the effects of physical injury, chemical imbalances and drug usage on the brain. Run Time: 29:00 Dissection:The Hand A detailed gross anatomy of the Hand including nerves, arteries, tendons and muscles. Structures and areas highlighted include: Palm, Thumb, Hypothermal Eminence, Carpal Tunnel Digits and Ulner Nerve. Run Time: 13:00 Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus The entire scope of the body’s histological organization in full color; it describes cells, tissues, and organs in logical ascending order of biological complexity. A short practical quiz that allows students to test themselves concludes the program. Run Time: 34:00 Transcription of DNA to Messenger RNA Uses animation and demonstrations to show how DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA. Reveals the structure of messenger RNA and its constituent codons. Acquaints viewers with the various roles of messenger RNA and its importance in embryonic development. Run Time: 29:00

Description: Website includes a virtual reality room (can manipulate images)and video library (over 100 images). The images are 'real holograms'. Images include brain, musculoskeletal, vascular, spine, head and neck.

Description: Contains free program demos. A quality collection of medical education content, in a user-friendly interface, with powerful multimedia features to enhance learning styles and teaching efficiency. Includes Cross-Sectional Anatomy, The Doctor's Dilemma (Ethics), Human Anatomy and Radiologic Anatomy.

Description: Features transverse, sagittal and dorsal section planes through cadavers. Contains interactive quiz feature. Currenly only images available are of the head.

Description: This website features the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine Computer Aided Learning program. The Web site consists of a collection of CAL projects that offer an interactive learning programme for veterinary students. The CAL projects cover anatomy, parasitology, pathology, pharmacology, medicine and surgery. Most of the projects contain a mixture of text, graphics, case studies, video clips and quizzes.

Description: Aberdeens freely availble Med CAL unit's modules might provide some useful video clips for communication skills. Would need to talk to Neil Hamilton about doisaggregation from the existing format.

Description: Searchable database with links to moving image archives around the world. A collection of websites relating to moving images and sound and their use in HE/FE. The sites are classified by academic discipline, some 40 subjects from Agriculture to Women's Studies, collected within the 4 main categories of Arts & Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences and Science & Technology. There are some 600 sites on the MIG database at present, and it continues to grow at the rate of ten per month.

Description: Featuring some early examples of US TV advertising. Kitsch and authentically retro Americana. Stills grabbed from these could make a strong social statement. Or be humorous. The collection is free and open for everyone to use. By providing near-unrestricted access to these films, it is hoped to encourage widespread use of moving images in new contexts by people who might not have used them before.

Description: A collection of medical, dental and veterinary images. 8500 medical, dental, and veterinary images - mainly pathology/veterinary - freely available for use in teaching and learning. All the images donated by academics working in the biomedical fields in different countries.

Description: A collection of video resources for life sciences. Each resource includes a description, keywords assigned, running time of the video, and contact details for the copyright holder of the original material. Viewing requires Windows Media Player. Freely available to UK Higher Education.

Description: Repository of multimedia health education resources. Over 2,000 images, sounds, and videos covering the areas of dermatology, obstetrics and gynecology, neuroanatomy, neurology, pathology, biochemistry, and cardiology.

Description: Collected resources for dentistry. Including educational resources, a collection of over 2,000 images covering aspects of dentistry and oral medicine, case studies and revision notes. Search by image descriptions and/or keywords. Registration is free and required for access to images.

Description: The data consists of two cadavers, a male sliced at 1mm intervals and a female sliced at 0.3mm intervals. Links to various applications which allow you to exploit and manipulate the data are available, as is background information on the cadavers and the image formats. Data freely available after registration with the National Library of Medicine.

Description: Great site with watermarked images - keyword searchable or browsable. This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. Credit: "Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine."

Description: This is a useful peer review document sponsored by the Australian goverment.

Description: "Discovering that you have a serious illness can be confusing and frightening. DIPEx gives you access to the experiences of people who have gone through the same thing.

You can watch, listen to or read their interviews, learn more about the illness and its treatments as well as where to find support and more detailed medical information."

Lots of public-domain video of real par=tients talking about their experiences.

Description: LTSN-01's resource jump page - "a list of good quality free web based resources, useful for students (based on a collection from Joan Kemp at the University of Glasgow). Many have been reviewed by medical students, and rated very useful = **, useful = *"

Description: Commercial 3D images and animations of the body, from Primal Pictures.

Description: "MadSci Network represents a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions. For good measure we provide a variety of oddities and other ends as well. The images and information on this site may be downloaded and used for personal or educational purposes only. No material may be downloaded for commerical use, including publication or reproduction in any form, without the prior permission of the site maintainers. (Ask us.. we're usually pretty agreeable..)"

Description: Interesting selection of iamges of key gross pathological specimens with commentary and some interactivity.

Description: Thie HE Australian developed resource is a very high quality anatomy set of CD-ROMs. Look at the demo to see what it is capable of doing. I understand that the developers are very amenable to talking about disaggregation of the content.

Description: A very useful east to use site for focused information about anything. More focused internet search tool, and it uses images etc via Google. Very focused, uses encyclopaedias and medical dictionaries from accredited sources to provide information. Particularly good for healthcare information. Hyperlinks to deeper levels of knowledge. Also has images, news and blogs (see window to move from encyclopaedia to images in a search). Free download to PCs, enables rapid searching within Word etc.