Bellevue by David Oshinsky

Author:David Oshinsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

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* In 1898, the separate NYU and Bellevue Medical Colleges merged into a single institution known as the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The stated reason was a fire on the Bellevue grounds that damaged parts of the Bellevue Medical College building, though both institutions had been struggling financially for years. The merger allowed the colleges to pool their resources and to trim overlapping faculty. The acrimony it produced—who would stay and who would leave—was substantial. Indeed, a number of departing faculty members negotiated with Cornell University, which then offered a two-year “preparatory curriculum” in medicine in Ithaca, New York, to create a four-year medical college in New York City, which opened in 1898 with substantial funding from Cornell alumni. Given its solid financial standing and Ivy League credentials, Cornell Medical College had no trouble getting off the ground. In short order, its faculty and students were fully integrated into Bellevue Hospital for clinical instruction. In 1935, Bellevue/NYU formally changed its name to NYU Medical College.

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