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Faculty of Medicine from 1856 to 1900

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Self portrait, Professor John Smith
Medical students 1887
Pioneer Women Group c1897
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Historical overview


  • Foundation of the Faculty of Medicine in 1856
  • His Royal Highness Prince Alfred gives funds for a teaching hospital
  • John Henry Challis bequeathes his estate to the University of Sydney
  • (Sir) Thomas Anderson Stuart becomes Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, and second Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
  • Opening of the Medical School in 1883
  • Medical Students before the turn of the century
  • First medical curriculum
  • Plans for a new medical building
  • Sydney Hospital for Sick Children recognised as a teaching hospital in 1884
  • Callan Park Hospital for the Insane Becomes a Teaching Hospital in 1885
  • Sydney University Medical Society established in 1886
  • Royal Hospital for Women Paddington (The Benevolent Asylum) becomes a teaching hospital for Obstetric training in 1888
  • Anderson Stuart recruits pioneer Faculty staff from Edinburgh Medical School
  • Women in the Faculty before the turn of the century
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