Records of the Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine, 1905-1998 (bulk 1952-1995) (general abstract).

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Records of the Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine, 1905-1998 (bulk 1952-1995) (general abstract).

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The records contain correspondence and other files relating to the administration of and programs in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of particular interest are files dealing with the expansion of medical education in North Carolina, including the expansion of the School of Medicine at Chapel Hill from a two-year to a four-year program and the establishment of East Carolina University's School of Medicine in the 1970s. Also of interest are files related to the many research centers of the School of Medicine, especially the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and there are numerous files on the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program, the North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina Hospitals, and UNC Physicians and Associates (earlier the Medical Faculty Practice Plan). School of Medicine deans who figure significantly in these records include W. Reece Berryhill, Isaac M. Taylor, Christopher C. Fordham, and Stuart Bondurant.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Bondurant, Stuart

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East Carolina University. School of Medicine

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North Carolina Memorial Hospital

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine

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The University sponsored School of Medicine was established in 1879 with a two-year medical curriculum. Dr. Thomas W. Harris served as Dean and professor of anatomy for the school without receiving a salary from the University. When he resigned from the University in 1895 to focus on his medical practice, the School of Medicine was closed. It remained closed until 1890, when it reopened with a one-year curriculum. The School of Medicine returned to a two-year curriculum in 1896. In 1947, the Nor...

University of North Carolina Hospitals

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North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Medicine

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Taylor, Isaac Montrose, 1921-1996

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Fordham, Christopher C.

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Berryhill, W. Reece (Walter Reece), 1900-1979

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Walter Reece Berryhill was director of student health services, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1933-1941, and dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1941-1964. From the description of Walter Reece Berryhill papers, 1919-1979. WorldCat record id: 25724817 Walter Reece Berryhill was born 14 October 1900 in Charlotte, N.C., the son of Samuel Reece and Minnie Eugenia Scott Berryhill. In 1921, he graduated from the University of Nort...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine. Office of the Dean

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The dean is the chief administrative officer of the university's School of Medicine. Founded in 1879 by Thomas W. Harris, the school was originally private, although its courses in the basic sciences were taught by the university. From 1890 until 1896, the curriculum was only nine months long and was intended to prepare students for entrance into degree-conferring medical schools. In 1896, the program expanded to two years; and from 1902 until 1910, a four-year course was offered, with the last ...

UNC Physicians and Associates.

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