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Morton A. Madoff, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1993;269(14):1846-1847.

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In many ways, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass, has never gotten over the manner in which it was founded a century ago. For a multitude of reasons, I hope it never does.

By 1893, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a Boston medical school of unsteady reputation, had settled into a kind of terminal complacency. Its outmoded facilities and undemanding curriculum were a growing source of discontent, perhaps of embarrassment, to its leading faculty members. Administratively unwieldy and academically staid, it hardly seemed the sort of institution capable of competing with the widening ranks of university-affiliated medical schools.

Seven of the college's most esteemed faculty members, prominent Boston physicians, petitioned the trustees of Tufts College for permission to incorporate a new medical school under Tufts' aegis. "We propose to furnish a building, equipment, and everything necessary to carry on the work of a first-class medical school without any . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Office of the Dean, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Office of the Dean, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111 (Dr Madoff).

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