Ahead of Medical Education Day, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is celebrating all things education for the month of May! Whether you are putting together a poster presentation, planning your next education research project, or simply interested in broadening your skillset, we’ve got you covered with a curated bundle of training opportunities and self-guided learning materials.
Workshops... Read More
The Medical Historical Library is pleased to announce a new gift of the José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado papers. His papers are a gift of Caroline Stoddard Delgado, wife of Dr. José M. R. Delgado, and children José Carlos and Linda Delgado, 2024.
José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado (1915-2011) was a Spanish physician, researcher, and professor who specialized in neurophysiology of the brain. He captured... Read More
Data as Art" Exhibition: Call for Submissions
“Every story is complicated until it finds the right storyteller.”
– Anonymous
As we celebrate 10 years of the Bioinformatics Support Hub at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, we invite you to share your visual responses to the prompt “Data as Art." Though data representations hold specific scientific meaning, some datasets and data... Read More
This past February, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, together with the Digital Humanities Lab and other campus partners, celebrated Love Data Week, an international event dedicated to data enthusiasm and education. This year's theme was "My Kind of Data."
Nearly two hundred participants — faculty, researchers, students, staff, and community members among them — attended one or more of the... Read More
The Cushing/Whiney Medical Library and Yale Library have begun a free trials of the following resources.
Please let us know what you think of these resources here: Trial Feedback Form.
Did you know you can suggest resource trials? Simply fill out this form.
Neurosurgical Atlas
Trial through March 23, 2024
Interactive neuroanatomy tools
Original illustrations
3D... Read More
On view in the hallway and rotunda from February 19th – August 16th, 2024
Curated by Melissa Grafe, Ph.D. and Laura Phillips, Ph.D.
Mindscapes tells a story about mental health—its visibility, classification, and treatment—through the archival and visual art collections of the Medical Historical Library. Instead of a sweeping grand narrative of medical progress, Mindscapes presents a... Read More
Stata MP is now available for all faculty, staff, and students. Stata is a statistical software package that is widely used across many disciplines for data analysis. To download Stata MP, sign in to the Yale Software Library and select Yale Licensed Software from the top navigation. Next, choose StataCorp.
Anyone currently using the SE or BE edition of Stata can upgrade to MP. The campus-wide... Read More
Written by Jiemin Tina Wei, Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grant recipient, 2023-2024
December 29, 2023
What is the relationship between work and medicine? It may seem obvious, especially amidst this year’s wave of unionization of medical residents, that medicine is a form of work.
But just as medicine can be work, work can be (and has been, in certain historical moments... Read More
As part of a larger reimagining of the Cushing Center, we’d like to share our new mission statement:
The mission of the Cushing Center is to inspire wonder about the human brain and its disorders, to educate visitors about the history of modern neurosurgery, and to respectfully steward the remains of patients contained within the Cushing Brain Tumor Registry.
The Cushing Center will be closed... Read More
Written by Michael Ortiz-Castro, Harvard University
Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grant recipient, 2023-2024
Medicine shows were grand spectacles—among some of the first large scale, public, and free theatrical venues in the United States. The spectacles were incredibly popular in the U.S., particularly in the South and the West, from the 1870s to about the... Read More
