Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p The Harvard Medical School was founded in 1782-1783 with the establishment of three professors to teach anatomy and surgery (John Warren, 1753-1815), theory and practice of physic (Benjamin Waterhouse, 1754-1846), and chemistry and materia medica (Aaron Dexter). From the beginning private endowments supported activities and the curriculum. The school relocated from Cambridge to Boston in 1810, amid controversy but with the ultimate effect of placing facilities near the hospital of the almshouse and later (1821) Massachusetts General Hospital. Concern with clinical opportunities has been a tradition of the school from the first, and the teaching faculty throughout the school's history has been active in private practice and hospital appointments as well as academic work. Medical degrees were granted as Bachelor of Medicine from 1788 to 1810, and Doctor of Medicine from 1811 to the present. The medical school archives provides a record of developments in clinical and research work through more than 175 years and shows the impact of Boston philanthropy and social concerns, as well as the effects of professional communication of national and international range, on academic affairs.. }
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- catalog description "The Harvard Medical School was founded in 1782-1783 with the establishment of three professors to teach anatomy and surgery (John Warren, 1753-1815), theory and practice of physic (Benjamin Waterhouse, 1754-1846), and chemistry and materia medica (Aaron Dexter). From the beginning private endowments supported activities and the curriculum. The school relocated from Cambridge to Boston in 1810, amid controversy but with the ultimate effect of placing facilities near the hospital of the almshouse and later (1821) Massachusetts General Hospital. Concern with clinical opportunities has been a tradition of the school from the first, and the teaching faculty throughout the school's history has been active in private practice and hospital appointments as well as academic work. Medical degrees were granted as Bachelor of Medicine from 1788 to 1810, and Doctor of Medicine from 1811 to the present. The medical school archives provides a record of developments in clinical and research work through more than 175 years and shows the impact of Boston philanthropy and social concerns, as well as the effects of professional communication of national and international range, on academic affairs.".