Harvey Medical College

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Harvey Medical College was a co-educational night school in Chicago, Illinois that offered training in various medical fields. [1]

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Harvey Medical College was one of over 20 medical schools that opened in Chicago between 1890 and 1910, but unlike many of these it offered a real education and was not just a diploma mill.

Frances Dickinson served for periods as president, secretary and chair of ophthalmology at the college. [2]

Notable alumni

African-American physician Isabella Garnett obtained a premedical certificate from Harvey Medical College in 1899. [3]

Australian dentist Victor Ratten obtained a medical diploma from Harvey Medical College in 1907 and subsequently practised as a surgeon in Australia. His medical qualifications were the subject of a Tasmanian royal commission in 1918 following the objections of the local medical profession to his appointment as superintendent of Hobart General Hospital. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Robinson, Byron (November 23, 1896). "The Controversy over the Harvey Medical College of Chicago". Journal of the American Medical Association. 27.
  2. ↑ Sperry, F. M. (1904). "Frances Dickinson, M.D.". A Group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chicago (Public domain ed.). J.H. Beers. pp. 150–154.
  3. ↑ Dreger, Marianne; Wishart, Patricia C. (1990). "Garnett Butler Talley, Isabella Maude". In Schulz; Hast (eds.). Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990. Indiana University Press. p. 303. ISBN   0253338522.
  4. ↑ Rimmer, Gordon (1988). "Victor Richard Ratten (1878–1962)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. Melbourne University Press.

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