Medical school class and illness history

The Early History of the Bristol Medical School

The formal opening of the handsome new wing of University College, assigned to the Bristol Medical School, and so successfully inaugurated on the 16th of November by Sir Andrew Clark, the distinguished President of the Royal College of Physicians, is not only a fitting occasion for a past history of the school, but seems to demand a record of its work and^ workers in the earlier part of its lif...

DEMONSTRATED AT THE ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL Clinical History

Dr. J. A. DAVIS: The patient (Case No. 298928, P.M. No. 11116) we are about to discuss was a male infant born on 30 December 1964. He was the child of the third pregnancy of a 25-year-old woman with a proved Fallot's tetralogy. The first pregnancy had ended in an abortion at 3 months; the second yielded a live infant who weighed only 1,420 g. at 37 weeks' gestation and died at the age of 30 hou...

A brief history of the postgraduate medical school.

The existence of the Postgraduate Medical School depends, more than that of most schools, on an historical setting. At the end of the nineteenth century, for reasons which I shall not go into now, there came to be a demand for postgraduate education in England. It was started in 1888 by Charles Keetley, a surgeon at the West London Hospital, one of the earliest followers of Lister. It was devel...

Weill Cornell Medicine: A History of Cornell’s Medical School

Having previously lived and worked on the Upper East Side of New York City for several years, I have always been interested in learning more about the history of the area. I shared a subway stop with Memorial Sloan Kettering and walked past Cornell Medical School on my way home; it was in my neighborhood. So when I had the opportunity to read and review the book Weill Cornell Medicine: A Histor...

Financial implications of increasing medical school class size.