First medical school in North America established in Philadelphia 260 years ago today (May 3 1765)


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(Friday, May 3, 1765) — The first school of medicine in the American colonies, the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia (now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), was founded today.

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