Willamette University Medical Department Records 1878-1899

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Willamette University Medical Department Records, 1878-1899

Willamette University Medical Department Records 1878-1899

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The collection of meeting minutes recounts the formation and dissolution of the Willamette University Medical Department. In 1864, the Governor of Oregon and a number of Portland physicians requested that the Board of Trustees of Willamette University establish a medical department in Portland, to be called the Oregon Medical College. The department closed soon after its founding. By 1866, the new University president began efforts to establish a medical department in Salem. Lectures began in Salem in 1867. In 1878, the Oregon Medical College was incorporated in Portland. It was resolved at a meeting of the faculty, that only one institution for medical education was needed in Oregon and that it should be located in Portland. Hence, the Willamette University Medical Department relocated from Salem to Portland. On April 8, 1887, schisms among the faculty led to the resignation of many of its members. Several of these men helped organize a rival school, the Medical Department of the University of Oregon. The Willamette Medical Department stayed in Portland until 1895, when it returned to Salem. In 1910 the department failed to meet the standards of the Council on Medical Education and in1913, the department was discontinued. It was then absorbed by a merger with its former rival, the University of Oregon Medical School.

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