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Please check the usage policies for each site before downloading any images.

Duke Medicine Digital Repository
Searchable collection of 3,000+ photos, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of health and life sciences.
Images from the History of Medicine
"Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM)."
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
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.
Otis Historical Archives on Flickr
Unofficial home for public domain photographs from the National Museum of Health & Medicine.

* UC Irvine access only - remote users: log in to the VPN first.

Please check the usage policies for each site before downloading any images.

Please check the usage policies for each site before downloading any images.

See the More Image Sources tab for more medical image databases.

Anatomy.TV *
MedPix
"MedPix is a free online Medical Image Database provided by the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. All public content is peer-reviewed by an Editorial Panel."
New England Journal of Medicine - Images in Clinical Medicine*
Videos on various topics in clinical medicine, including Primary Care; Clinical Practice; Hematology/Oncology; Cardiology; Infectious Disease; Pulmonary; Critical Care; Dermatology; and more.

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* Licensed resource. You must be on campus or using the VPN for remote access.
VisualDx *
A diagnostic decision support system designed by clinicians to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis of visually identifiable diseases. Includes more than 16,000 images representing over 900 visually identifiable diseases, drug reactions, and infections.

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Also available as an app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Go to VisualDx homepage and click on "Get the Mobile App." You must register from the UCI Network or VPN.

Finding, Downloading, and Managing Medical Images
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries
Images: Digital Images for teaching and research
A guide to finding digital images created by Emilee Mathews, UCI Research Librarian for Visual Arts. This guide will lead you through the process of identifying image collections and searching for images in licensed collections and free image resources online.
Medical Image Resources
Duke University Medical Center Library

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