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Medical School founded, 1893 Tufts University School of Medicine was voted into existence by the Trustees on April 22, 1893. It was formed by the secession of seven faculty from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston, a school which was formed in 1880. These "original seven" faculty members successfully lobbied to establish a medical school under the auspices of Tufts College. They believed that, in order to raise the standards of the school and provide for the necessary laboratory and clinical work, the school should affiliate with a college or university. The new school, which was designated the Medical School of Tufts College, opened its doors in October 1893 with a student body of eighty students. The school was, from the very beginning, coeducational, and of the twenty-two students who graduated that first year, eight were women. By 1905, the medical school was the largest such school in New England, with a faculty of 105 and 403 students. |
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