NCNM Faculty - Tutorials


Images.MD:
A Brief Tutorial

The library has subscribed to images.MD, an online database of 50,000 medical images for faculty and student use. There is no need to worry about getting copyright permission to use these images in your lectures or for other educational purposes-that has been paid for in the subscription. (If you want to use the images for commercial purposes, you will need to seek permission however.)

There are links to images.MD on the library website, or you can bookmark the URL: http://www.imagesmd.com/. Access to images.MD is by IP recognition if you are using an NCNM campus computer or Internet connection. If you want to use images.MD from home, ask Rick Severson (rseverson@ncnm.edu; 503-552-1543) for an access code.

Here is the best way to use this product:

  1. Go to the images.MD website: http://www.imagesmd.com/.
  2. Click on the Register Now link (https://www.imagesmd.com/users/register.asp) and fill out the form so that you can use the My Slides function that allows you to save slide sets, edit slides, and email slides to yourself as PowerPoint files. You only need to register one time.
  3. Login to images.MD with the email address and password that you used for registration.
  4. Click on the My Slides link, then type in the name of a new slideset (brain slides, for example) so that you can later save slides that you find on that topic to this folder.
  5. Search the database for slides on your topic. You can type your topic (brain, for example) in the Quick Search box, or you can click on the Advanced Search option.
  6. Click on the + button for each slide that you want to add to your slideset.
  7. When you have added enough slides to your slideset, click on My Slides, then the link to your slideset in order to view the slides you selected.
  8. Click on the e button for any slide that you wish to edit or add comments to.
  9. Finally, click on the Create PowerPoint Presentation link in order to email the slideset to yourself for use in your lectures or papers.

For assistance in using images.MD, please contact the library or faculty support office.

Last updated: July 15, 2005