Internet sites of interest September 2010 Anatomy websites Column editor: Keith Nockels, University of Leicester Library.

Here are some websites to help students and others learn human anatomy. Leicester Medical School does still have a dissecting room (are we unusual in this?), but even with a dissecting room, our students make use of online resources like the ones listed here. I have included a short list of subscription resources, and then a longer list of free ones. All links were checked on 26th July 2010. Subscription sites NetAnatomy http://www.webanatomy.com/ Images of radiographic, cross sectional and gross anatomy (gross anatomy is large scale anatomy, which can be seen without a microscope). A sample of the material, with details of how to subscribe, is available from the website. Primal Pictures http://www.primalpictures.com/Home.aspx A three dimensional model of human anatomy using data from scans. Animations demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures. The University of Leicester has access to some Primal Pictures material through Ovid, but the site gives details of all the available material, which includes things we do not have (like resources aimed at speech and language pathologists and acupuncturists), and material on CD. Anatomy.tv is, I think, another name for the online version of Primal Pictures. Visible Body http://www.visiblebody.com/ 3D visualisation of human anatomy, views can be rotated and zoomed. We trialled this after a student drew it to our attention and it needed a plugin to be downloaded. Visible Body is now available in the UK through the STAT!Ref but I have no experience of this directly. Winking Skull http://www.winkingskull.com/navigation.aspx A study aid produced by the publisher Thieme. Access to everything (Winking Skull Pro) needs a subscription, although 200 images are available free. Free sites eSkeletons http://www.eskeletons.org/ From the University of Texas at Austin. View bones and data about them, for humans and various other primates. You can also view a bone and compare it between species. GetBodySmart http://www.getbodysmart.com/

Being developed by Scott Sheffield, a university teacher of anatomy, as an online anatomy textbook. Still under development. Grays Anatomy http://www.bartleby.com/107/ Specifically the 20th edition of the book, published in 1918. The latest edition is the 40th edition and online access is possible if you buy the printed book. Other editions may be available in Google Books but a search for grays anatomy also gives you related books and editions in other languages. It also seems to reveal the TV series Greys Anatomy, and as seems to be usual with Google Books, not everything is in full text. Human Anatomy Online: an interactive tutorial and reference http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/toc.htm Courseware from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Each chapter of this resource contains an overview of that part of the body, osteology, laboratory dissection procedure, and a summary of anatomical terms encountered. Instant Anatomy http://www.instantanatomy.net/index.html Website maintained by Robert Whitaker, who teaches anatomy to medical students at Cambridge and based on his diagrams and notes. There are also podcasts (which may need purchasing) and a CD for purchase, as well as a related book. LUMEN Structure of the Human Body http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/index.htm LUMEN is the Loyola University Medical Education Network, based in Chicago. The LUMEN site as a whole is awash with online learning materials but this particular page gives links to anatomy resources, including the Bone Box (under LUMEN Learn Em) , a Master Muscle List, and a cross sectional anatomy tutorial, which uses images from the Visible Human Project. These things all appear to be free to use, but some other parts of the site need a login. Visible Human Project This NLM project aimed to create a complete set of 3D representations of the human body. There is more information, including links to images, conference material and other NLM initiatives at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html. There are some normal anatomy images at http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/HISTHTML/ANATOMY/ANATOMY.html, part of the Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education, created by Edward C. Klatt, MD, formerly of the University of Utah and now at the Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, Georgia. Some images are available through LUMEN resources (see above). The column editor writes Is there still a place for an annotated list of web resources, such as this column? I think so. The column can draw on the expertise and experience of the editor or writer and bring to light resources that might not appear on the first page of results from an easy but possibly too simple, search of a general search engine. However, I work in a University setting, not an NHS one, and only with medical and operating department practice students, not nursing or allied health ones or with practitioners. So, there is a danger that this column will only be of interest to people in the same setting as me, and become 2

more and more irrelevant to all the other members of HLG. You can help me to stop this happening, by: 1) Either, suggesting a topic for a future column, 2) Or, even better, writing a column yourself using your own expertise and experience. I can edit your annotated list into the columns usual format. If you feel you can help, please contact me, and thanks! My contact details: Keith Nockels University of Leicester Library Clinical Sciences Library RKCSB Leicester LE2 7LX UK Tel.: +44 (0)116 252 3101 Email: khn5@le.ac.uk