title: Introducing HEAL: the Health Education Assets Library.
abstract: Digital multimedia, such as images and videos, are playing an increasingly important role in health sciences education. Educators, however, often do not have the time or resources to create high-quality materials. The authors describe the development of a new Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), a freely accessible, national library of high-quality digital multimedia to support all levels of health sciences education. HEAL's primary mission is to provide educators with high-quality and free multimedia materials (such as images and videos) to augment health science education. In addition, HEAL is working with other organizations to establish a network of distributed databases of high-quality teaching resources. By using state-of-the-art Internet technologies HEAL enables educators across the country to efficiently search and retrieve teaching materials from a variety of sources.
authors.affiliation: The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA.
authors.forename: Chris S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Candler
authors.forename: Sebastian H J
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Uijtdehaage
authors.forename: Sharon E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Dennis
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018966:Library Materials; D019212:Multimedia; D013664:Teaching Materials