The Tulane University Medical Center 150 Years Of Medical Education JOHN DUFFY

Description: The Tulane University Medical Center ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION John Duffy In this history, John Duffy traces the development of the Tulane University Medical Center, which in 150 years has grown from a medical college of seven faculty members to a major medical center with a faculty of seven hundred. The school survived the Civil War, the hard years of Reconstruction, and repeated yellow fever epidemics to emerge in the twentieth century as one of the leading medical schools in the nation. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834, Tulane is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States. By the 1850s it had already become the leading medical school in the Southwest and had acquired a national reputation. Forced to close during the Civil War, it reopened immediately after-ward, but the next twenty years were difficult ones. However, by the 1890s, despite the depressed Reconstruction years and yellow fever epidemics, the school had regained its national status. Led by two strong deans, Tobias G. Richardson and Stanford E. Chaillé, and aided by gifts from the Richardson and Hutchinson families, Tulane kept well abreast of the scientific surge in medicine at the end of the nineteenth cen-tury. In the twentieth century the school continued to build its reputation based on the faculty's work in public health and tropical medicine and its strong de-partment of surgery and medicine. Fol. oWing Wotio Wat 11diane venturc into the international tield, helping to promote public health and medical education in Latin America and Ainica. Although beset by acute financial problems in the early 1970s, the school's administrators launched an ambitious building, and renovation program that led to the establishment of a major medical center embracing the medical and public health schools, a hospital and clinic, the Delta Regional Primate Research Center, and other specialized research units. The result is that today a much strengthened Tulane University Medical Center operating on a sound financial basis looks optimistically to the future. JOHN DUFFY is emeritus professor of history at the University of Maryland and the author of many books on medical history. Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge 70893

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