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Medical Education
In 18th- century colonial America, those who wanted to become physicians either learned as personal students from established professionals or went abroad to study in the traditional schools of London, Paris, and Edinburgh. Medicine was first taught formally by specialists at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning in 1765, and in 1767 at King’s College (now Columbia University), the first institution in the colonies to give the degree of doctor of medicine. Following the American Revolution, the Columbia medical faculty (formerly of King’s College ) was combined with the College of Physicians and Surgeons ,chartered in 1809 ,which survives as a division of Columbia University.
In 1893 the Johns Hopkins Medical School required all applicants to have a college degree and was the first to afford its students the opportunity to further their training in an attached teaching hospital. The growth of medical schools att
A. there was no higher institution of learning which taught medicine.
B. there were already a few higher institutions of learning which taught medicine.
C. those higher institutions of learning which taught medicine were better than those in Europe.
D. those higher institutions of learning did not give the degree of doctor of medicin