Welcome to the Duke Medical Center Archives

Since the 1970's, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) Archives has played a vital and important role in capturing institutional records and documents for DUMC and the Health System and ensuring their future availability for administrators, researchers, and scholars. more....

Duke University Medical Center Archives collections consist of the administrative records of Duke University Medical Center departments and personal papers of individuals affiliated with Duke University Medical Center, the Duke University Health System, School of Medicine (including the Allied Health Educational Programs, and Area Health Education Center Program), and the School of Nursing.

Personal paper holdings include materials of alumni, faculty, and administrative staff. more....

Administrative records holdings contain the official, non-current records of departments and divisions. more....

Foundations of Excellence: An Archival Image Collection Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Duke Medicine, funded in part by The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc., presents a selection of over 600 digitized photographs and publications. These images document the history of the Duke Medicine's academic, clinical, and research activities from 1927 through 1950. The project is part of a larger year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of Duke Medicine.

Historical Images in 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.

The PA History Digital Collection contains over 3,000 images associated with the history of the physician assistant profession. These items were selected from materials contained in the DUMC Archival and PA History Society's special collections. The database was originally created with grant funding from the State Library of North Carolina, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online Digitization Grants and through additional funding from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc., which allowed for further database augmentation. In 2007, the American Academy of Physician Assistants provided funding to migrate the database into its current form in MeDSpace.

• Departmental Services - Reference, photocopying & scanning, record management, information for visitors, and more.
• Collections - All archives & manuscript collections, EAD encoded collections, oral histories
• DUMC History - Institutional timeline, department & division leaders, and more.
• Programs - Oral history, records management, SPPAHx special collection, UHMS special collection, and more.
• Transfers & Gifts - Retention & disposition guidelines, institutional archives transfer procedures, FAQ for potential donors, and more.
• About Us - The Medical Center Library, staff directory, policies & procedures, mission & vision statements, and more.

• Medical Center Archives Hours
• Directions to the Medical Center Archives
• DUMCA Staff Directory