This collection highlights films within our Film Reel Collection of videos that were created to teach medical students various subjects. The films were used in lectures at Des Moines University from circa 1950s to the mid 1980s.
Some of these videos may contain graphic scenes due to their medical nature. Please view with care.
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D.O. Physicians and Surgeon
American Osteopathic Association
This film reel, created circa 1950s, explains what it means to be a Doctor of Osteopathy. The video walks people through the qualifications, courses, etc. of what it is like to attend College of Osteopathic Medicine as a student.
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Mechanisms and Management of Serious Intra-Abdominal Infections
The Upjohn Company and Sutherland Learning Associates
This video explains the process of diagnosing and treating serious Intra-Abdominal Infections.
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Contraction of the Heart
Hideo Ueda, Hisakazu Yasuda, Ryozo Okada, Keiji Ueda, and Yasuro Sugishita
Created by doctors at Tokyo University Hospital in 1974, they explain various heart diseases and how to treat them.
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Muscles of the Anterior Forearm
Teaching Film, Inc. and Laurence E. Wragg
This film, created in 1967 in the anatomy laboratories at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois, explains the muscles of the anterior forearm using a cadaver.
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The Palmar Hand, Part II: Intrinsic Muscles
Teaching Film, Inc. and Laurence E. Wragg
This film, created in 1967 in the anatomy laboratories at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois, explains explains the parts of the palmar hand using a cadaver and graphics.
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The Palmar Hand, Part I: Orientation
Teaching Film, Inc.
This film, created circa 1967, briefly explains the parts of the palmar hand using a cadaver and graphics.
