Library Guides: Medical Laboratory Science: Web Resources

Career Resources

Becoming a member of a professional organization helps you to stay current in your field and gives you opportunities for continuing education, networking, access to member resources, discounts on conferences/meetings held by organization, and often opportunities for service within the organization. Many organizations offer very affordable student rates for membership. Here are a few organizations that you may want to consider.

Images

Here are a few free image collections and databases on the internet:

American Society of Hematology (ASH) Image Bank
"The American Society of Hematology Image Bank is a Web-based image library that offers a comprehensive collection of images relating to a wide range of hematologic topics. "The ASH Image Bank is a public website that allows ASH members and the entire hematology community the ability to discover high quality, peer-reviewed hematologic images."
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"The newly redesigned ASH Image Bank launched in March, 2016 contains over 2100 images, with new images continuously being published. ASH encourages new submissions that are subject to review by the Image Bank Editor.

Exciting new features included in the newly redesigned ASH Image Bank include the Atlas and Reference cases. The Atlas provides that community with a quick way to view images of blood cells in a normal and abnormal state, while Reference Cases describe common blood disorders through images sets and descriptive text.

Comments, questions, and requests for inclusion of slides addressing specific topics may be directed to imagebank@hematology.org.

To browse the ASH Image Bank, submit images, or download images, members and nonmembers need to log in. ASH members can log in with their standard ASH username and password. Non-members will need to create an account. Currently, the ASH Image Bank is available to non-members at no cost."
Open - i
"Open-i service of the National Library of Medicine enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images (including charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections. Searching may be done using text queries as well as query images. Open-i provides access to over 3.7 million images from about 1.2 million PubMed Central® articles; 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports; 67,517 images from NLM History of Medicine collection; and 2,064 orthopedic illustrations."
Pathology Education Informational Resource (PEIR) Digital Library
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) (CDC)
Webpath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
This site is hosted by The University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library.
"The WebPath® educational resource contains over 2700 images with text that illustrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. For self-assessment and self-directed study there are over 1300 examination items. There are more than 20 tutorials in specific subject areas. These computer-aided instructional materials support educational programs in the health sciences."