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BJC Today now available in Digital Commons@Becker
528 recently digitized issues of BJC Today are now accessible through the Digital Commons@Becker. Digital Commons@Becker is an institutional repository designed to share the scholarly work and research materials of WashU Medicine with a broad audience, and to make them more easily accessible. Becker Archives uses the Digital Commons to make certain archival materials more [Read more]
Precursors to the famous Washington Manual are now accessible online in the Digital Commons@Becker.
Before it evolved into one of the bestselling medical texts ever published, the Washington Manual began as a series of notes and observations compiled by internal medicine residents rounding at Barnes Hospital in the early 1940s. These “treatment pro tips” were collected throughout the course of a year of clinical rounding, and then assembled into [Read more]
In Search of Anatomists Past: Phase 3 Elective Goes to Italy
This past April, the Center for the History of Medicine once again sponsored a trip to Europe for Phase 3 medical students as part of the Dissecting the Past elective. Head of Rare Books Elisabeth Brander, Professors of Anatomy Amy Bauernfeind and Krikor Dikranian, and 11 students with an interest in exploring the history of [Read more]