NOTE: The links on this page lead to collections that contain mostly public domain and Creative Commons images. Yet, there might be images that are copyright-protected. It is your responsibility to check the copyright of the images you intend to use.
National Library of Medicine Image Resources
Open-i is an open access biomedical image search engine that searches images from PubMed Central articles as well as several special image collections. It allows for substantial search customization via filters (specialties, image type, license type, etc.)
MedPix is an open access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics.
The Visible Human Project created publicly available three-dimensional representations of a male and a female human body. These images include cross-sectional cryosections, CT, and MRI images.
The National Eye Institute Media Library provides images and other media from multiple categories: eye exams and medical care, infographics, anatomy, laboratory, eye disease simulations, etc.
NLM’s Digital Collections allow searching and browsing numerous document collections: Images from the History of Medicine, World War 1, Medicine in the Americas 1610-1920, and many more. You can also search the collections for only images.
The National Cancer Institute offers a collection of featured medical images in several collections: science & technology, childhood cancer, Spanish-language images and diagrams, anatomy, historical images, and B-roll videos. The full collection is also searchable.
This is a searchable collection of scientific photos, illustrations, and videos. The images and videos in this gallery are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 3.0. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as you credit and license your new creations under identical terms.
The Public Health Image Library offers a number of topical image collections on topics like influenza, bioterrorism, lab science, and more. Also of interest are image subsets selected for their interest to particular audiences: health care providers, teachers & trainers, librarians & researchers, students, consumers, and more.
The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.
International health/public health images.
Gross and microscopic images of pathology specimens taken by Ed Uthman, a practicing pathologist in Houston, TX. Contains over 1,000 images, all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
The These images in this collection are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
For further information, please contact Dr. Drew Bourn at https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Bourn
These watermarked images are free for use for education, teaching and other purposes, providing they abide by the image license. Please check the page for more details.
The box "National Library of Medicine Image Resources" was adapted from "Educational Tools for Your Classroom: Find Media to Use" by Touro College, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.