Computer and Media Resources
Media Library
The HPEC provides a valuable library of learning resources (including the largest video collection of health-related titles within CUNY) to faculty and students at the Brookdale Campus. Students, assisted by HPEC staff, may view materials in screening rooms and multimedia study-carrels.
The HPEC is continually adding new titles to the media library, making the development of our video collection a dynamic process.
Prior to the start of a semester, we encourage faculty to provide us with a copy of their syllabi so that we may recommend a list of complementary videos from our collection.
Listed below are sample offerings from our extensive media collection organized by subject. For a complete reference list of individual titles offered exclusively through the HPEC, please visit the center in person. Users may also browse our online catalog from any computer connected to the Hunter College network.
On-line Nursing Tools and Free Student Resources
HPEC Online Catalog
Searching the Catalog
At the login page, choose Guest Account and click the Login button. You do not need to enter a username or password.
Once logged in, click on the magnifying glass to search.
You can adjust how results are displayed by choosing Form, List, or Table under the View As2menu.
Enter a keyword in either the title or description fields and click Perform Find3 on the right-hand panel.
For best results, start with simple search terms using one word at a time, like "HIV" or "Nutrition," and repeat your search using related terms. Entering partial words may provide more results; For example, searching for "immun" might return results with the words immune, immunity, immunization, immunology, immunotherapy, and so on.
The HPEC online catalog is currently under maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.
EDGT
Nursing students have access to EDGT's CAI programs, which include tutorials and quizzes on a number of health-rated topics.
Kanopy
In addition to the videos offered exclusively through the HPEC, Hunter College provides students access to Kanopy Films, an online, streaming video service featuring many health-related films.
Access Medicine
AccessMedicine is a resource that features leading medical content, plus multimedia, self-assessment, algorithms, case studies, and more.
Media Evaluation and Review—Alpha & Beta Testing
For over 25 years, the HPEC has served as a beta test site for numerous film, video, and computer software developers. The HPEC coordinates beta-testing using a comprehensive evaluation process and provides producers with critical feedback and complete product reviews. To learn more, please contact our center.
Alexander Street Films
School of Nursing students now have access to streaming healthcare and nursing-related videos, such as those from Medcom Trainex, through Alexander Street.
Medical Image Libraries
The HPEC is pleased to offer Hunter faculty exclusive access to our medical images library. This comprehensive library of medical images includes over 12,000 high quality clinical and health-care image, that reflect both historical and emerging diseases and disorders in medical science.
Below is a list of links to unique repositories containing thousands of medical images and videos covering a variety of topics.
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National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Image & Video Database – A searchable database of photos, illustrations, and videos from NIGMS, one of the National Institutes of Health.
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CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL) – A well-organized collection of photos, illustrations, and videos maintained by the CDC.
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MRI Master - this MRI brain sagital cross sectional anatomy tool is absolutely free to use. Use the mouse scroll wheel to move images up and down.
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sectional-anatomy.org - is a free online tool for radiologic cross-sectional anatomy.
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Wellcome Images – "One of the world's richest and most unique collection of images, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science."
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Health on the Net Foundation (HON) – "HONmedia is an unique repository of over 6,800 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON and new image links are constantly being added from the world-wide Web."
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MedEdPORTAL (AAMC) – A free service offered by the Association of American Medical Colleges, "MedEdPORTAL facilitates sharing of high quality peer-reviewed educational material and promotes collaboration and educational scholarship across institutions. Examples of MedEdPORTAL publications include tutorials, virtual patients, cases, lab manuals, assessment instruments, faculty development materials, etc."
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emedicinehealth Image Collection Gallery – Offers an extensive collection of images by category.
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Clinical Images (UCSD) – Clinical images organized categorically by the University of California, San Diego.
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Medical Multimedia Database, (U. Virginia) – Multimedia database containing photos, charts and illustrations, scanned x-rays, movies, and other media; maintained by the University of Virginia.
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Developmental and genetic diseases – Offered by the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research.