THE 224: Acting for Medical Simulation: Finding Images

Finding Images

In addition to performing google images searches using keywords, you can also use the following online resources.

Books are also a great place to find images.

Online Image Databases

Photos Public Domain
Free stock photos, textures, images, and clipart.
Smithsonian Museum Images
Access to more than 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from the collections. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Unsplash Photos
Free images, wallpaper, and backgrounds.
Ad* Access
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
Pexels
Free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.

Medicine Specific Images

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
HEAL is a searchable and browsable database of "over 2,000 [digital] images, audio clips and video clips. Educators and clinicians contribute their images and multimedia items so that they will me more readily available to other health science educators.
Images from the History of Medicine
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) in NLM Digital Collections provides online access to images from the historical collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.
MedPix
National Library of Medicine. MedPix is a free online medical image database, which includes over 53,000 images from over 13,000 cases

Always Cite

Remember to cite the AI you used. See below for an example

Reference: Open AI (2023). ChatGPT (May 24 version). [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

AI Image Generators

To generate a good image, you will need to write a good prompt. The more detail you provide the better and a sentence often isn't enough. Think short paragraph. We have also found that AI image generators respond well to emotive words in prompts.

Many AI image generators now cost money to use. Here is a sampling of free ones.

Craiyon
Designer
Currently free but Microsoft will begin to charge "at a later date."
DeepAI

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