Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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O- N December 1,1837, the Board of Directors of Hampden-Sydnev College voted to establish a medical department in Richmond. The Old Union Hotel at Nineteenth and Main Streets was the first building and was occupied bv students in the fall of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. There were fortv-six matriculates, and the alumni in eighteen hundred and thirtv-nine numbered fourteen. The schools of dentistry and pharmacy found origin in eighteen hundred and ninety- seven and eight, while the M. C. V. nursing division was organized in nineteen hundred and thirteen. O O L S

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William T. Sanglr, M.A., Pji.D., LL.D. CENTENNIAL MESSAGE Dunng tliis Contcnni.il c.ir it Is rc.illy more import.int to look to the t ' titiiie tli.in to the p.ist. Stimulated b ' .1 gi ' e.it heritage we ni.tv pl.in with confidence. Any blueprint for the next hundred years will show completion of cert.un im- portant physical facilities, a new hospital, an orthopedic unit for Negro cases, a gym- nasium and social centre, a building for the school of dentistry, and perhaps dormitories to house the entire student body. This same blueprint will show more emphasis upon the teaching of ncurops c]iiatr ' , preventive medicine and public health, more correlation of subject matter as between all of the health-service professions, all designed to make better general practitioners. There will be more informal postgradviate education, more group research, perhaps ad- ministered through a research institute, and withall a closer professional tie-up between the graduate and his alma mater. Across the years the blueprint will of course change, the emphasis always upon the individual whether in the preparation for practice or already in practice. Page Seieiitecn