Duke & Durham

Duke University Medical Center

The goal of Duke University Medical Center is to provide leadership in fulfilling its core missions which are:

To provide the most advanced and comprehensive education possible; to prepare our students and trainees for lifetimes of learning and careers as leaders, practitioners, or researchers.
To perform biomedical research producing discoveries that add to understanding life processes and lead to preventing and curing disease and maintaining health.
To translate, to practice and to make available to the public, with compassion, the benefits of the unique clinical and technological resources of the Medical Center and to support our educational and research missions.

Duke University & Durham, NC

Duke University is located in Durham, North Carolina and is the fourth largest city in the state with over 200,000 residents. It is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area known as the Triangle, widely considered the main cultural, educational, and governmental center between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia. Within the Triangle is Research Triangle Park, a 5,400 acre research complex closely linked with the local Universities. The population of the entire Triangle area is well over one million.