Scrapbook contains a series of 47 notes and letters written by Sir William Osler, Lady Grace Osler, Wilburt C. Davison, Susan R. Chapin, W. S. Pearce, Thomas Shipton, and Marion Emmons dating from 1913-1950. These items have been transcribed by...
Items in this consist of a narrative written by Dr. Shilling documenting the rescue of seamen from the USS Squalus in the hours after the submarine sunk in May 1939, a 1939 Life Magazine article reporting on the rescue of the 33 surviving seamen, and a...
The photographs in this collection come from 2 sources: 1) a selection of images and used by Dr. Shilling in his numerous talks on the activities and events surrounding the rescue efforts, and 2) photographs taken from July-September 1939, during the...
Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr., established the first formal educational program to educate Physician Assistants at Duke University in 1965. His first pools of students were former military corpsmen and medics with prior health care experience. Four...
The physician assistant (PA) profession emerged in the mid-1960s as a social innovation to help physicians meet a growing demand for health care services. After the Second World War, the United States began educating more medical and surgical...
Health care reform provides new opportunities and risk for PAs. States continue to revise legislation, rules and regulations to reduce barriers to use PAs effectively in variety of health care settings. Veterans Administration Medical Centers, Military...
Physician Assistant roles expand into all medical and surgical specialties and settings. Workforce studies continued to be positive recognizing PA contributions to the provision of quality, accessible and cost-saving health care services. PAs gain...
The Library’s artwork collection has a wide selection of portraits, prints, paintings, maps, sculptures, and busts. It includes portraits of Duke faculty members, paintings of the US Army 65th General Hospital, and a bust and portrait of James B. Duke....
Each item in our Digital Collection has a unique identity number with accompanying metadata providing details about the item including standard, searchable database fields (title, subject, date, creator, etc.). We want our users to have a genuine and...
USS Squalus (SS-192), a diesel-electric submarine built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and commissioned there on 1 March 1939, suffered a catastrophic valve failure during a test dive off the Isle of Shoals at 0740 on 23 May....
This digital project represents a scrapbook of letters and articles between Dean Wilburt C. Davison and Sir William and Lady Grace Osler. The first page of this scrapbook bears the inscription: "Wilburt Cornell Davison from William Osler, in memory of...
The Duke Physician Assistant Program’s mission is to educate caring, competent primary care physician assistants who practice evidence-based medicine, are leaders in the profession, dedicated to their communities, culturally sensitive, and devoted to...
Collection contains a few select copies of medical journals and publications from the collection of Dr. Charles E. Brayton (1851-1912), a physician of Stonington, Connecticut. Dr. Brayton's manuscript materials are available in the David M. Rubenstein...
The Davison Society is composed of the entire student body. Each student pays a yearly fee that is used to fund various school activities. The Davison Council is the student government organization for the Duke University Medical School. The Council...
James B. Duke’s founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to “provide real leadership in the educational world” by choosing individuals of “outstanding character, ability and vision” to serve as its officers, trustees...
Since 1962, the Duke University Medical Center Library has been publishing a newsletter to keep its users informed of resources and events. Beginning in 1996, the Library began providing a copy in electronic format as well. Beginning with the October...
The school has offered many different degrees over the years. The first students, high school graduates, received a diploma after a three-year program that cost just $100 per year. In 1938, the school began offering baccalaureate degrees to students...
In 2001, a Medical Education Review Panel chaired by Lord Oxburgh of England evaluated the plan and recommended that Singapore establish a graduate medical school (Duke-NUS) to produce the highly trained physician-scientists needed to support the...
The Duke Medicine Office of News and Communications is dedicated to providing media with the latest news from Duke Medicine. Media relations officers are committed to responding quickly and efficiently to media inquiries and facilitating interviews...
The Medical Center Library maintains a small collection of medical instruments and other artifacts related to medicine and health care. The collection has items of historical significance to Duke as well. A neurosurgical stereotactic equipment exhibit...
The mission of the Duke Medical Alumni Association is to seek to support and promote the interests of Duke University Medical Center and its extended community and to nurture life-long relationships and learning. The Medical Alumni Association shall...
The Duke University Medical Center Library Stereotactic Museum was established to preserve the stereotactic instruments that significantly impacted the field of neurosurgery. The collection is largely due to the generosity of Drs. Robert Heimberger,...
The Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) is affiliated with Duke University and Duke University Health System. The school offers an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN), a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Doctorate in Nursing...
The 51st Annual Duke School of Medicine Student Research Symposium (formerly known as AOA Day) will be held August 7, 2020. This event highlights the scientific contributions of our Third Year Medical students. It is a unique opportunity for all other...
The 52nd Annual Duke School of Medicine Student Research Symposium (formerly known as AOA Day) will be held August 6, 2021 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM.
This event highlights the scientific contributions of our Third Year Medical students. It is a unique...
Friday, August 5th, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
The annual medical student research symposium is an opportunity to bring together the entire Duke community to showcase the unique scholarly and research accomplishments of our third year students. and...
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...
The primary news publication of Duke Medicine from 1953 to 1986, the Intercom featured information about campus construction and events, staff news, and articles about medical research, innovation, and concerns at Duke. Publication frequency changed...
As part of the 75th Anniversary celebration of the opening of the Duke School of Medicine and the Duke Hospital, the Medical Center Archives digitized select publications that help document the early years of Duke Medicine.
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...
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...
The History of Medicine Collections has over 450 medically related bookplates. Although ex libris collections have never attained the popularity and status of stamp collections and the focus on medicine further limits the number of enthusiasts, there...
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 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...
Thursday & Friday, August 3rd and 4th
Student Poster Presentations: Thursday, August 3rd • 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Main Session: Friday, August 4th • 8:00 am − 12:00 pm
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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...
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:...
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...
These images document the history of Duke Health's academic, clinical, and research activities beginning in 1927. All materials included in this collection are available at the Duke University Medical Center Archives. In honor of Duke Health's 75th...