WASHINGTON, May 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following
is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census
Bureau:
FIRST MEDICAL COLLEGE
Profile America — Sunday, May
3rd. America's first medical college was established on this
date in 1765. Students at the College of Philadelphia — now the University of Pennsylvania — were able to enroll in
"anatomical lectures" and a class about "the theory and practice of
physik." The school's faculty modeled the instruction after the
style of European predecessors. They supplemented their instruction
with observation and practice at nearby Pennsylvania Hospital,
which was founded in 1751 by Benjamin
Franklin and Thomas Bond. The
addition of these courses to the college's curriculum made
Penn, in a technical sense, America's
first university as well. Across the U.S. today, there are nearly
182,000 physicians and surgeons working out of some 222,000 offices
and more than 6,500 hospitals. Profile America is beginning
its 19th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 3159
First university:
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/firstuniv.html
Physicians & surgeons:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_1YR_B24121&prodType=table
Offices of physicians/NAICS 6211:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=BP_2012_00A1&prodType=table
Hospitals/NAICS 6221:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2012_US_62I2&prodType=table
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