The NIH Calendar of Events lists an average of 25 to 30 seminars and scientific meetings each week. Other events of interest are available to students in the Greater Washington-Baltimore area, widely known for its educational and cultural opportunities.
Weekends often provide opportunities for clinical electives students to explore the region.
The NIH Library, located in the Clinical Center, provides a central facility for the scientific, medical, administrative, and support staff engaged in NIH research programs. As a self-service, open stack library, it contains an extensive collection of U.S. and foreign journals. In addition to the usual services, the library provides on-line access to the National Library of Medicine's medical literature data banks, advisory services for literature needs, and a translating service. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works.