The Four Seasons images are four seventeenth century copperplate engravings of probably German or Flemish origin, each depicting a season of the year with each season used as a metaphor for one of the ages of man. They are by no means limited to their...
The History of Medicine Collections has mounted 107 slides of 91 woodcuts from Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst [Dresden: Matthes Stoeckel] 1583. Two of the woodcuts (anatomy of the head and eye) have multiple movable superimposed...
The Medical Center Library’s Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences. Special collections in HIM include Bartisch’s...
The professional staff members of the Medical Center Library & Archives present posters and papers at state, regional, and national conferences. We have posted content from those presentations in order to share our content with other national and...
On November 4, 2010, Victor Dzau, MD, chancellor for health affairs for Duke University, formally launched the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI). The DCI is a single entity—the first of its kind at Duke—that brings cancer care and research even closer...
The first national conference on new health practitioners was held in Wichita Falls, TX. The National Board of Medical Examiners administered its first national certifying examination to graduates of AMA accredited PA Programs, to nurse practitioners...
The research efforts of Doctor of Physical Therapy students culminates in a capstone project. These creative, incisive posters show the students’ work on a wide range of topics, from sports-related concussions to spinal cord injury to dance to...
The Department of Surgery's Chief Resident Interview Project began in 2018. The interviews are conducted with Department of Surgery's Chief Residents each year as a way to document the department's Chief Residents. Interviewees discuss their family...
Voices, a literary magazine that publishes creative expressions of students and individuals in the medical community, established and supported at the Duke University School of Medicine. Voices welcome any submissions from patients, healthcare...
The Department of Pathology, in the Duke University Hospital School of Medicine, delivers education programs that provide opportunities for study and training as residents, fellows, and pathologists’ assistants. The department's growing research areas...
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University School of Medicine is a robust, multidisciplinary academic department dedicated to advancing the care of women through research, education, and patient care. The department has been a...
The David C. Sabiston Oral History Project was conducted by the Duke University Department of Surgery from 2018-present. David C. Sabiston was chair of the Department of Surgery at Duke for 30 years. The goal of the project was to collect resources to...
This collection contains oral history interviews with African Americans focusing on their experiences at the Medical Center. The audio recordings and transcripts are all preserved at the Duke University Medical Center Archives.
The oral history program of the Duke University Medical Center Archives exists to capture the medical center's history in the words of the people who have witnessed or participated in that history. The interviews consist of relevant memories from...
The Duke University Medical Center Archives (DUMCA) in partnership with colleagues from the History of Medicine Collections at the Rubenstein Library and the local oral historian community received funding from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial...
Photographs created by the Department of Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine. The Department of Medicine was established in 1930, coinciding with the opening of Duke Hospital. There are twelve specialized divisions within the department:...
Search strategies for evidence synthesis projects developed and executed by Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives staff. These searches are components of systematic reviews, scoping reviews, evidence maps, guidelines, umbrella reviews,...
Compiled by Dr. Howard T. Stewart of New York (presumably after 1865), The Stewart Album is a collection of 206 photographs of German, French, Spanish, Italian, and English physicians and scientists prominent in the mid-nineteenth century. All but six...
Medical Student Research Day (formerly known as AΩA day) highlights the scientific contributions of our third year medical students. In August of each year, third year students present results from their research experiences in either a platform or...