Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News February 2025 Archive

We will be conducting additional testing on our ClinicalKey database access to enhance performance and reliability. Please note that during this time, the database may be temporarily unavailable for access, but we anticipate minimal interruptions. If you encounter issues accessing the resource during this time, please use DukeHealth VPN. If you encounter additional access problems, please submit a Report an Access Issue ticket.

Testing Schedule:

• Date: Friday morning, February 14th, 2025.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your…

Categories: Databases, Resource Outages, Resource Updates

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BRIDGING THE GAP:  Advancing Health equity together

Join the Duke Fuqua School of Business Health Care Club for their annual Duke MBA Health Care Conference featuring industry-leading speakers on improving equitable access to health care. This full-day, in-person conference will take place on March 26th, 2025, and welcomes attendees from Fuqua, Duke University, nearby academic and healthcare institutions, as well as health care minded individuals nationwide. Registration is limited, so register early to secure your place!

Health equity is one of the most pressing challenges in the healthcare industry, requiring innovative frameworks, inclusive approaches, and bold strategies to address systemic disparities. Whether enhancing healthcare delivery through DEI…

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“As I said before, we only had maybe three or four faculty at Duke at the time, who were black. Dr. Moore was the only black attending an OB-GYN. There was Dr. Johnson who was in internal medicine, Dr. Jacquelyne Jackson, who was there in sociology, and one other black physician in psychiatry. So once he saw me and some of the other black medical students, he invited us over to his home to meet his family. And just to kind of give us some semblance of being with someone that we could understand where we were, and kind of what we're trying to do. And he certainly gave us a lot of encouragement, in terms of being able to survive in any kind of environment. And, you know, he would constantly tell us that excellence will always prevail. So it didn't matter whether you're black, white,…

Tags: black history month

It's that time of year again—hearts, valentines, and... data! 📊💖 Yes, International Love Data Week is February 10-14, and this year's theme is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?”  Many institutions, including Johns Hopkins, are hosting free virtual data events through the week. Check out their online talks, panels, and webinars here.  View all 2025 Love Data Week events and activities happening locally and virtually around the world.  To celebrate, the Medical Center Library is excited to share some great data resources to help you become better stewards of the data you work with.

Duke’s Research Data Policy
In May 2023, Duke released its revised research data policies,…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: data

This month we are featuring "Black History Month: A Medical Perspective," our online exhibit containing a chronology of medical achievements of African Americans, a section on folk medicine, and a selective bibliography.

Categories: Exhibits, Resource Updates

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Starting May 25, 2025, all NIH applicants must use the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) to create and submit biosketches and Current and Pending Other Support documents. SciENcv is an online profile system for researchers involved with federal research funding.

Key Changes:

• Mandatory Use of SciENcv: NIH will require SciENcv for completing and certifying Common Forms (Biosketch, Current & Pending Other Support, etc.) to produce digitally certified PDFs for submissions.
• New Biographical Sketch Supplement: Narrative sections (e.g., Personal Statement, Contributions to…

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Tags: NIH, SciENcv

“Every year we had registration, she would have a team of med students and doctors to give these kids physicals. [There] might be about 10 in the room, giving these kids physicals. She would ask for volunteers, but almost demand volunteers. They would be out there giving these kids free physicals, and that was done by her. And she kept a record on each kid, the whole thing. She kept and monitored that stuff, and tracked it all the way through the season, [making sure] that everything got better, even though they didn’t have real, real high blood pressure. But all that stuff got better as the season went along, and she kept a record of this. And then, if the kids had any kind of illness, or asthma, anything, she knew about it. [If] they needed medication, she would have medication.”   …

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