The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, collaborating with the Yale School of Public Health, is making Yale public health student theses available online. These theses are a valuable byproduct of Yale student research efforts. The digital thesis deposit has been a graduation requirement for a number of years, giving students options on how they want to post their work. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE YALE COMMUNITY AND NEED ACCESS TO A THESIS RESTRICTED TO THE YALE NETWORK, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) IS ON.

If you are interested in having your thesis digitized and made part of this collection, please complete the form. Feel free to send questions to Melissa Grafe at

Starting with the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) graduating class of 2002, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and YSM Office of Student Research have collaborated on the Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library (YMTDL) project, publishing the digitized full text of medical student theses on the web as a valuable byproduct of Yale student research efforts. The digital thesis deposit has been a graduation requirement since 2006. Starting in 2012, alumni of the Yale School of Medicine were invited to participate in the YMTDL project by granting scanning and hosting permission to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, which digitized the Library’s print copy of their thesis or dissertation. A grant from the Arcadia Fund in 2017 provided the means for digitizing over 1,000 additional theses. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE YALE COMMUNITY AND NEED ACCESS TO A THESIS RESTRICTED TO THE YALE NETWORK, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) IS ON.

If you are interested in having your thesis digitized and made part of this collection, please complete the form. Feel free to send questions to Melissa Grafe at

Starting with the Yale Physician Associate (PA) Program’s Class of 2020, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Yale PA Research Program have collaborated to publish the digitized full text of PA student theses on the web as a valuable byproduct of Yale student research efforts. Please review the Terms & Conditions in the left-hand column in order to avoid copyright infringement.

If you are interested in having your thesis digitized and made part of this collection, please complete the form. Feel free to send questions to Mikalah Knight at

Starting with the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) graduating class of 2012, students who completed a master's thesis have submitted it to the ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis database. Additionally in 2014 the YSN Doctor of Nursing Practice program (DNP) have submitted their final capstone project to ProQuest. The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library also hosts these thesis and capstone projects as a record of the work that students have done.

Please Note: Graduates may place an embargo on the full text availability of their document. This may be a short term embargo, or a lifetime embargo depending on the circumstance.

If you are interested in having your thesis digitized and made part of this collection, please complete the form. Feel free to send questions to the Medical Historical Library at