MEMC – Media Catalog

Search our Media Catalog

Looking for audiovisual programs, anatomical models, instructional software or physical exam models? Do you need material for classroom support, self-study or student assignments? Search our catalog by clicking on the green button below. The catalog provides the traditional author, subject or title searching. All audiovisual and instructional software items may be checked out for one week unless they are on reserve for specified courses.  Models must be used in the Media Center, unless needed by faculty for classroom presentation.

UMKC School of Medicine programs including Grand Rounds, Faculty Development Workshops, or other programs designated for online viewing are also available through the catalog.  Search the catalog by author (speaker), subject or title as described above.  If you would like to see all online courses in the catalog, just type the phrase “online lectures” in the title or subject box.  When you find the UMKC lecture you would like to view, click on the underlined number to see the whole record. The whole record provides the link at the bottom of the page to access online viewing. The UMKC user ID and password box will appear for secure viewing.

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NetAnatomy

To access NetAnatomy go to:
  1. www.umkc.edu/is/remotelabs
  2. Connect with your username and password
  3. The bottom section to the right you will find NetAnatomy.com
  4. Launch my session
  5. It will ask you for your password again

Policies, Services & Reservations

Circulation

Audiovisual programs are circulated to students, faculty, Hospital Hill staff, affiliates, and other area healthcare professionals for a period of one week; longer lengths of time may be arranged depending upon the reservation schedule. All anatomical models and some AV or software programs are not circulated; these items are on reserve for specific courses and student use or other restrictions. An exception is faculty use for classroom presentations.

Faculty Reserve

Programs may be placed on a Faculty Reserve List. This means that the material selected by faculty are taken out of general circulation and held for the specific use of required class assignments. To insure that all students have a chance to utilize the program(s), the circulation policy generally voids check out; student must view the program(s) in the Experiential Learning Center. Faculty must give us the list of reserved items as soon as possible so that any checked-out items may be retrieved and available when the student requires it. Please call Garren Frasher at 235-1864 for information.

Reservation for Classroom Support

Booking programs for classroom presentation is strongly encouraged.  Contact Garren Frasher at 235-1864 or glf4h8@umkc.edu.

Collection Development

Faculty interested in the availability of new media for classroom support are encouraged to submit search requests. We have a selection of publisher catalogs and have access to a variety of internet databases for such inquiries, or, if you have a specific title in mind, please feel free to submit it to the Media Center for possible acquisition.  Please call Garren Frasher at 235-1864 or just send your request to: glf4h8@umkc.edu

Links, Online Services & Courses

Biochemistry Resources

Biochemistry Resources

Interactive Review of Biochemistry Concepts
This resource provides interactive animations of biochemical processes, along with a game that allows students to practice quickly identifying amino acids.

The Biology Project: Biochemistry
Explore biochemistry concepts and then quiz yourself using this resource developed by the Biology department at the University of Arizona.

Board Preparation Materials

Board Preparation Materials


examMasterClick here to access Exam Master
  – Test bank of over 17,000 questions for USMLE Steps 1, 2, 3 & medical specialty boards. You must be a UMKC School of Medicine student or faculty member to register. Registration requires the use of your UMKC email account.

Medical Concepts Mneumonics
This resource provides a number of mneumonics for grasping difficult to understand concepts in the study of medicine.

myOakstone_logo Intensive Review of Internal Medicine
Note: Please contact the media center for login information

SketchyMedical

Solidify difficult to understand Microbiology and Pharmacology concepts through this video course. Click here for SketchyMedical.

Clinical Skills

Clinical Practice

  • Clinical Practice
    This resource from the University of Pittsburgh compiles information on the different elements of clinical practice, addressing such areas as obtaining a patient history, assessing special populations, and interpreting the electrocardiogram.
  • Pertinent Clinical Information for the Medical Professional
    This resource provides guidance in identifying medical conditions, learning about drug interactions, and properly conducting a number of exams. Case studies and quizzes are also available to students.
Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine

Family Medicine

Family Medicine

Genetics Research

Genetics Research

Online Courses

Online Courses

Medical Image & Video banks online

Medical Image & Video banks online

Unless otherwise noted, below are copyright free health/medical image sources for educational use.

  • Health Education Assets Library
    Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today’s health sciences educators and learners.
  • National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus Videos of Surgical Procedure
    This page provides links to prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures. They are actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States since January 2004 to the current time. There is an abundance of videos organized by system and disorder: most last an hour.
  • Northeast Ohio Medical University
    This resources provides access to different sources for pathology slides.
  • Public Health Image Library
    Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC’s pictures. PHIL welcomes public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets and multimedia files.
  • Wellcome Trust Image Bank
    The Wellcome Images provide a database of pictures with themes ranging from medical and social history, to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.
Media Resources Lists

Media Resources Lists

Although our entire collection is searchable in the online catalog, PDF lists of commonly requested audiovisual or software programs are provided below.

Neurology Resources

Neurology Resources

  • Conducting the Neurologic Exam
    This resource developed by the University of Utah and University of Nebraska Schools of Medicine combines the use of anatomical diagrams, live patient exams, video patient cases and self-  evaluation tools in order to help the student develop a basic working knowledge of neurologic concepts that can then be applied to patient diagnosis.
  • Interactive Textbook of Neurology
    This multimodal resource provides an interactive approach to studying neurology. Concepts are clearly delineated and reinforced through video and illustration.
Pathology

Pathology

  • Pathology Slides
    This resource compiles scholarly sources for viewing pathology slides.
Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Public Health Resources

Public Health Resources


Epiville
This interactive resource developed by medical faculty at Columbia University guides students through the process of identifying and responding to an epidemic by gathering information from a number of different sources.

The Essentials of Working in Public Health
This resource provides a number of modules for students interested in gaining a working knowledge of Public Health provision. Core concepts include access to services, emergency response, and understanding the legal infrastructure of the public health system.

Research Resources

Research Resources

Health Science Research Guides
Get assistance conducting medical research, writing case reports, using proper documentation, and more.

Evidence Updates
Register for this free service that provides professionally selected and peer-reviewed journal articles on a number of important health topics. This resource provides a number of ways to search for quality content that is of relevance to researchers with specific interests. Users can choose to have important contributions e-mailed to them.

Surgery

Surgery