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The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library of multimedia teaching resources for the health sciences. HEAL provides access to tens of thousands of images, videoclips, animations, presentations, and audio files that support healthcare education. The HEAL library contains two types of educational resources: the HEAL Reviewed Collection and our Affiliate Collections.

HEAL Reviewed Collection

For additional information about HEAL's peer review process, see Peer Review of Digital Scholarship. To submit your resources for review and publication in HEAL, see Submitting to HEAL.

	HEAL Reviewed Collection High-quality resources that have been submitted by individual authors and peer reviewed for publication in HEAL. These may be either individual multimedia files or coherent collections of resources.
	Review Pending Resources that have been submitted by individual authors and are awaiting peer review for publication in HEAL.

Affiliate Collections

To provide faculty with the widest possible variety of resources, HEAL has partnered with other digital libraries and included their content as affiliate collections. HEAL users can search and browse content contained in any part of this distributed network of collections through HEAL. These collections have been subjected to their own quality assurance review and are not reviewed by HEAL's peer reviewers.

	24 Languages Project A collection of digitized, translated consumer health brochures on a range of topics from cancer screening to immunization, made available by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah. Most of the resources are available as both PDF documents and audio files for download or online listening. Native speakers of the respective languages furnish narrations in a multitude of languages, including Armenian, Croatian, and Spanish.
	Albert Einstein College of Medicine Gallery of Hematology Images Christine Lawrence, MD, Distinguished University Professor of Medicine emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, developed the Gallery of Hematology Images over 40 years of practice as a clinical hematologist at Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York. The collection contains approximately 600 peer-reviewed images and surveys most of the hematologic disorders, as well as many infectious diseases evident on examination of blood and bone marrow smears.
	doc.com Annotated Videos Doc.com is an interactive learning resource for healthcare communication. The Doc.com project is a joint production of the American Academy on Physician and Patient together with Drexel University College of Medicine and is partly funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation. Each of these 15 multimedia learning objects consists of an annotated video delivered on a web page, wherein a master physician conveys role modeling of communication skills as well as clinical knowledge.
	Knowledge Weavers Collections: Diverse collections including Flash animations portraying physiological processes and a wide range of images from the Knowledge Weavers (KW) multimedia educational resources project at the University of Utah's Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Knowledge Weavers Animations Collection Knowledge Weavers Dermatology Collection Knowledge Weavers ECG Collection Knowledge Weavers Fatty Acids Collection Knowledge Weavers Human Reproduction Collection Knowledge Weavers Pathology Collection
	McGill Molson Medical Informatics Project The Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, with support from the Molson Foundation, has developed multimedia learning objects to enhance its curriculum. These resources include illustrations employing color and design to help elucidate concepts or clarify anatomy, Flash animations which allow the study and review of complex dynamic principles, and sophisticated multidimensional "builds" where images are divided into layers to isolate certain elements.
	Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction, A Course on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare for Healthcare Providers, was the first of its kind following the devastating events of 2001. This Web-based course combines Medantic Technology's didactic presentations and Medulator virtual patient cases delivered via a custom learning management system. Originally published for Medantic Technology by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, the course was co-developed with subject matter expertise provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, with certification provided by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. Since its introduction in 2002, the course has collected an impressive list of institutional licensees, including major federal organizations and private healthcare and academic institutions.
	MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorials Well-known patient education Flash animation tutorials from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute
	NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach A popular set of hundreds of videoclips, created by Paul D. Larsen, MD, of the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, and Suzanne S. Stensaas, PhD, University of Utah School of Medicine
	NOVEL: William F. Hoyt Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection The Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL) is a digital library produced through collaboration between the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society with a grant from the National Library of Medicine. The collections include an assortment of multimedia, including high-quality slides, video, audio and animations. The Hoyt Collection contains the best examples from the extensive collection of William F. Hoyt, MD, Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Ophthalmology. This collection focuses on the optic disc.
	Pathology Education Instructional Resource (PEIR) An extensive collection of images for use in medical education, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with over 16,800 images from multiple disciplines, including pathology and histology.
	PediNeuroLogic Exam: A Neurodevelopmental Approach PediNeuroLogic Exam: A Neurodevelopmental Approach from Dr. Paul Larsen and Dr. Suzanne Stensaas is a tutorial focusing on those aspects of the pediatric neurological examination that are unique to the child's nervous system. The component video segments illustrate the importance of neurodevelopmental milestones in neurologic assessment of newborns through two-and-a-half year olds. It is designed to build upon the NeuroLogic Exam program.
	The Poja Histology Collection The Poja Histology Collection from Dr. Lambert G. Poels and Dr. Paul Jap consists of high quality images from over forty years worth of slides created by members of the UMC-St. Radboud Faculty of Medicine and colleagues involved in collaborative clinical research projects. The best images were integrated into computer assisted training programs to support basic histology, microscopic anatomy, and cell biology instruction. The Poja Histology Collection - Oral Cavity Subset The Poja Histology Collection - Respiratory System Subset
	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Illustrations Medical illustrations demonstrating human anatomical structures and a variety of surgical procedures, including arm and leg anatomy, pancreatic and gallbladder disorders, intestinal anatomy and disorders, respiratory system anatomy, renal system, and cardiovascular system. Recent additions cover a range of topics including orthopedics and digestive and renal system disorders.
	UCLA Interactive Neuroscience UCLA Interactive Neuroscience v3.0 contains multimedia resources to support first year neurosciences curricula and includes videos of brain dissections, a brain atlas, an MRI atlas, and interactive quizzes. This project has been made possible by a Multimedia Development Fund awarded to Dr. Carolyn Houser.

Collection Development

HEAL continues to expand its Reviewed Collection, as well as to create software bridges to new affiliate collections.

HEAL Collection Development Policy Version 1.0, September 2004 (PDF format 370K)	Policy for the building of the HEAL collection, specifying the audience the collection is intended to serve, the scope of the collection, and the methods employed to identify and acquire resources for the collection, and to select and prioritize among them.
HEAL Triage Process September 2004 (JPEG 130K)	Flowchart of the initial process of approving submitted resources prior to peer review.
Technical Options for Accession into HEAL September 2004 (JPEG 88K)	Flowchart showing the variety of methods by which resources may enter HEAL.


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