The Department of Medicine was established in 1930, coinciding with the opening of Duke Hospital. Types of materials include reprints; appointment lists of professors, associates, instructors, residents, affiliates, and alumni; biographical sketches; Eugene A. Stead Jr. alumni lists; a biography of Frederic Moir Hanes; lists of chief residents of Duke Hospital, VA Medical Center, and Ambulatory Care; a list of the numbers of house staff; student, house staff, and faculty files; and staff and faculty group photographs. Major subjects include the Department of Medicine. Materials date from 1930 to 2017.

Contains reprints from periodicals, conferences, and other professional publications, photographs, directories, pamphlets, newsletters, chief resident reunion materials, curriculum vitae, correspondence, a plaque, budgets, manuals, notes, articles, schedules, slides, presentation slides, video tapes, cassette tapes, and faculty files. Materials date from 1930 to 2017.