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Final Thoughts (2021)

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In this chapter we highlight some of the important influences that have shaped the U of C’s Cumming School of Medicine since its beginnings, examine the school’s unique features, and assess its impact both locally and more broadly. The 1964 report of the Royal Commission on Health Services (the Hall Commission) drove the timing of the Cumming School of Medicine’s founding. The commissioners believed that the Canadian medical schools then in existence did not have the capacity to “graduate a sufficient supply of well-qualified physicians to meet the expanding demands resulting from an increasing population and a doubling of the

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Authors & Contributors
Lampard, Robert
Hogan, David
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Wright, James R., Jr.
Anderson, Warwick H.
Freiburger, Dana A.
Journals
Korean Journal of Medical History
Social History of Medicine
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
History of Education
Science as Culture
Social Studies of Science
Publishers
University of Calgary Press
Brill
TidePool Press
Concepts
Medical schools
Medical education and teaching
Universities and colleges
Physicians; doctors
Hospitals and clinics
Medical research
People
McLeod, Lionel E.
Watanabe, Mamoru
Feasby, Thomas E.
Gall, D. Grant
Smith, Eldon R.
Cochrane, William A.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Places
Canada
United States
Ireland
Korea
Massachusetts (U.S.)
China
Institutions
University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
Royal Commission on Health Services (Canada)
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Yale University
University of Massachusetts
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