HLTH 385W Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Asepsis, Daniel Hunt Gilman, Thyroidectomy
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Doctors were trained in the apprentice approach, by shadowing a doctor. Go straight to medical school after high school. Curriculum at the most prominent medical school in the us (identity?) Year 2: same lectures as year 1. The university that changed it all is johns hopkins. Influence of johns hopkins hospital and medical school. In 1874, john hopkins left million to found the university and hospital, the single largest philanthropic donation ever made. In the 1880s, most american medical schools were little more than trade schools, accepting high school graduates who had trouble getting into liberal arts colleges. Two men, daniel gilman and john billings south to change that with a gran experiment in medical education. A painting of four doctors by john singer sargent. Johns hopkins: the grand experiment in medical education. While jh hospital opened in 1889, the medical school was left with a financial shortfall of.