Although we are a community hospital, we have research and training programs that span not only the United States but the entire world.
Our medical education program attracts students worldwide to make 1 to 4 year commitments to study at Griffin Hospital. Our combined Preventive and Internal Medicine Program is one of only seven in the United States and as a result we receive application from across the country for the three positions that open yearly.
Our medical students also collaborate with charitable Griffin physicians to research and implement public health and human rights projects on an international level. Administered by the Griffin Center for Health and Human Rights, international health projects are currently in the works in East Timor, Guyana, Nicaragua, Uganda, and additional rotations are currently under development.
Recognized nationally, the Women's Health Coordination Center is one of only 12 organizations chosen by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department as a Center of Excellence in Women's Health. As a result of their status, they are able to attract additional grants and staffing to provide more health coverage to our community's under-served women.
Our Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center is a unique program that is focused on studying prevention and has gained nationally attention through its Center for Disease Control grant. The PRC has grown through the exemplary leadership of Dr. David Katz, whose advice on nutrition has been sought not only by Tommy Thompson, the Secretary of the Health Human Services Department but national media programs like Oprah, ABC, and Good Morning America.
Medical Library Resources
Please note: Some resources are only accessible from the Griffin Hospital campus.
The librarians may be contacted at griflib@griffinhealth.org or 732-7399.
Nursing databases and the Cochrane Collection
MD Consult brings the leading medical resources together into one integrated online service to help physicians efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions.
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis on internal medicine and specialty areas including allergy/immunology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, kidney disease, oncology, pulmonary disease, rheumatology, HIV, and infectious diseases.
NEJM Online contains both the current issue and an online archive that can be accessed through browsing, advanced searching, or collections by disease or topic. Subscriber services include PDA content access, PowerPoint downloads, and continuing medical education (CME).
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
UpToDate is an evidence based, peer reviewed information resource - available via the Web, desktop computer, and PDA.