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Medical University of South Carolina Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina
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The Medical University of South Carolina has served the citizens of South Carolina since 1824. It has expanded from a small private college for the training of physicians to a state university with a medical center and six colleges for the education of a broad range of health professionals, biomedical scientists and other health related personnel.
The Medical College of South Carolina was incorporated in December 1823 as a private institution of the Medical Society of South Carolina. The faculty bore full responsibility for the college until 1913 when the state assumed ownership of the school. The Medical College opened in 1824 with a faculty of seven Charleston physicians and 30 students. The first students graduated on April 4, 1825. The institution has served continuously since its founding, except for a four-year cessation during the Civil War. Following the Civil War, the college was reorganized and continued to operate -- at one point with as few as two students. The 1909 Flexner Report noted that there were 34 faculty, all part time, and 213 students whose fees were the only support of the school. To achieve progress, additional financing was clearly necessary. In late 1913, the state legislature was successfully petitioned to transfer ownership of the school to the state. Incorporation of the medical college into the state's higher education system allowed teaching and service roles to expand steadily in the twentieth century.
By faculty resolution, resulting in an amendment to the charter in 1881, the Medical College created a Department of Pharmacy that was, like its mother institution, the first of its kind in the South. The School of Pharmacy was organized in 1882, discontinued after two years, then resumed on a permanent basis in 1894, offering the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy (Ph.G.). The program leading to a degree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy was begun in 1936. A Doctor of Pharmacy degree program was begun in 1973, and a Ph.D. program in pharmaceutical sciences was initiated in 1982 (the latter administered through the MUSC College of Graduate Studies in collaboration with the University of South Carolina).
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- 171 Ashley Ave
- Charleston SC 29425 US
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- +1 843 792 1443
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