1. A method for retrieving medical images from at least one imaging archive and creating at least one teaching file; the method including the steps of: (a) retrieving at least one medical image from the at least one image archive; (b) storing the at least one medical image in a database; (c) generating a database record for the at least one teaching file; (d) generating the teaching file; (e) saving the teaching file into the database; and (f) generating at least one index of the teaching files.