Research Guides: Health Literacy & Patient Education: Multimedia

Podcasts

Patient Education

Healthcare 411: AHRQ, HHS
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health and Human Services
Podcasts: CDC
PodCasts for your Patients: ACG
American College of Gastroenterology

Professional Learning

FDA Drug Safety Podcasts
Keep up with drug research, news, approvals, warning and more.
Health Literacy Out Loud (HLOL) Podcasts
Professional Learning from Health Literacy Consulting
Health Topics: John Hopkins Medicine Podcasts
BMJ Talk Medicine
Podcasts from The BMJ.

Videos

MedlinePlus: Videos & Tools
National Library of Medicine: National Institutes of Health
Public Health Media Library
Centers for Disease Control And Prevention: CDC
Healthy Roads Media

Health Images

There are many great images on the Internet. But like any information you must credit the original source. Here are several web sites that offer a range of images you can freely use.

Image Gallery: NIH flickr
National Institutes of Health
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) The Public Health Image Library offers a number of topical image collections on topics like influenza, bioterrorism, lab science, and more. Also of interest are image subsets selected for their interest to particular audiences: health care providers, teachers & trainers, librarians & researchers, students, consumers, and more.
NLM Digital Collections NLM’s Digital Collections allow searching and browsing numerous document collections: Images from the History of Medicine, World War 1, Medicine in the Americas 1610-1920, and many more. You can also search the collections for only images.
The Visible Human Project The Visible Human Project created publicly available three-dimensional representations of a male and a female human body. These images include cross-sectional cryosections, CT, and MRI images.
MedPix MedPix is an open access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics.
Open i Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathological findings associated with human disease conditions.
National Cancer Institute: Visuals Online The National Cancer Institute offers a collection of featured medical images in several collections: science & technology, childhood cancer, Spanish-language images and diagrams, anatomy, historical images, and B-roll videos. The full collection is also searchable.

Games

Surgery Squad
Surgery Games & Patient Education
MedlinePlus: Games
National Library of Medicine: National Institutes of Health