Streaming video can enhance teaching and learning by illustrating complex concepts, demonstrating procedures, and humanizing health systems and conditions.
Videos licensed through institutional subscriptions provide additional advantages, including educational-use permissions, consistent indexing and metadata, and equitable access for all faculty, students, and staff.
Medical Resources
The library offers access to several high‑quality medical video collections:
- ClinicalKey, AccessMedicine, New England Journal of Medicine, and Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination provide authoritative videos on clinical procedures and techniques.
- Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy offers comprehensive anatomy demonstrations.
- LWW Health Library Basic Science and Clerkship collections include instructional content for interpreting EKGs.
These platforms can be accessed through the Multimedia section of the Library Resources for Medicine guide home page.
Multidisciplinary Resources
For broader subject coverage, Academic Video Online (AVON) provides more than 85,000 documentaries, interviews, and educational titles from producers such as PBS and the BBC. To find AVON content:
- Access the AVON platform from WSU Libraries databases A to Z List and search or browse for subjects such as Health Policy.
- Search the library catalog and refine results by selecting Type: Streaming Video and Availability: WSU Online Resources.
AVON supports accessibility features and allows users to create custom video clips for instructional use.