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Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University is one of the most highly-ranked universities of medicine and pharmacy in Vietnam. The university offers graduate and postgraduate education in medicine, pharmacy. The university has 7 faculties and one hospital:
Faculty of Foundation Sciences,
Faculty of Medicine,
Faculty of Pharmacy,
Faculty of Traditional Medicine,
Faculty of Community Health Care,
Medicine Technique and Convalescent Faculty,
Dentomaxillofacial Faculty,
The university hospital.

HMU, originally called Indochina Medical College, was founded in 1902. It was the first modern university in Vietnam, and the second of all universities in Vietnam after the Temple of Literature. It was located in Le Thanh Tong street, next to what was then its practice hospital, 108 Hospital. In 1961, Hanoi University of Pharmacy was spun off from HMU and took residence in the old campus. HMU was moved to a newly-built campus in its current address in Ton That Tung street - named after one of its principals, and next to the largest hospital in Hanoi - Bach Mai Hospital. It has also offices in Viet Duc Hospital.

HMU is considered the most famous medical university in Vietnam. The exam to enter the university is very competitive. In the past, it was the only medical university that recruited students in all Vietnam. Until now, it has been the only university which did not apply the priority by regions during the national university entrance exam (i.e: students in rural or difficult regions, who wish to benefit ‘the bonus mark by regions’, must apply in other medical universities).

Hanoi Medical University (HMU) (Vietnamese: ??i h?c Y Hà N?i) is the oldest medical university of Vietnam located in Hanoi. HMU was found in 1902 by French during the French colonisation under the name Indochina Medical College. The first headmaster of HMU was Alexandre Yersin who was the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was re-named in his honour (Yersinia pestis).

Graduates and former students of Dartmouth Medical School of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.

People in this category should be listed at List of Dartmouth College alumni.

The St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS organisation providing acute hospital care in south-west London, England.

Most of the Trust’s services are based at the St George’s Hospital site in Tooting, which it shares with the St George’s University of London Medical School. As distinct from the local hospitals which surround it, St George’s has more in common with inner London teaching NHS Trusts such as Barts and The London NHS Trust, in that it provides a wide range of specialist and tertiary services including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery and cancer care.

Originally established in the 18th century and based in what is now the Lanesborough Hotel at Hyde Park Corner in central London, St George’s moved to its current Tooting site during the early 1980s.

St George’s is emerging from a difficult period of poor publicity and arguably poor management under a new team of senior staff led by Chief Executive David Astley. While it faces serious financial and strategic problems, the Trust is developing a reputation for openness in the publication of clinical risk data. In August 2005 St George’s claimed to be the first hospital in the UK, and possibly the world, to publish its mortality rates across individual specialties.

In 1973, building began on the new site. The new hospital and school buildings were now well advanced. The School was completed, as were two wings of the new hospital, which provided a total of 710 beds. In 1976, the Medical School opened at Tooting and, in 1980, St George’s Hospital at Hyde Park Corner closed its doors for the last time.[5] (That building still stands and is now The Lanesborough Hotel on the west side of Hyde Park Corner.)

In 1981, medical education in London was reorganized to recognize the movement of population away from the centre. There are now fewer, larger medical schools in London. The expansion of St George’s, University of London (formerly St George’s Hospital Medical School) has become part of this policy.

In 2003, neurosciences services located at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon moved to the brand new Atkinson Morley Wing on the main St George’s site. This addition to the hospital now also houses cardiac and cardiothoracic services which have moved from the old fever hospital wards. St George’s today provides a total of over 1300 beds making it the largest hospital in London[citation needed] and one of the biggest in the country.

Recently St George’s Hospital has come under considerable scrutiny after a massive £21 million deficit, placing it squarely in the sights of the UK Government’s overspending “hit squad”. However, being a massive provider of healthcare in the area, some consider it to be as its name represents, the martyr hospital.[6]

In 1716 Henry Hoare, William Wogan, Robert Witham and Patrick Cockburn decided to open the Westminster Public Infirmary in Petty France, London in 1720, and quickly relocated to larger premises in Chapel Street in 1724. By 1732 the Governors were forced to seek an even larger building. The majority of the Governors favoured a house in Castle Lane but a minority preferred Lanesborough House.[1][2]

The original site was in Lanesborough House at Hyde Park Corner, originally built in 1719 by the James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough[3][4], in what was then open countryside. The new St George’s Hospital was arranged on three floors and accommodated 30 patients in two wards: one for men and one for women. The hospital was gradually extended and, by 1744, it had fifteen wards and over 250 patients.[5]

By the 1800s, the hospital was slipping into disrepair. The old Lanesborough House at Hyde Park Corner (now the location of The Lanesborough hotel) was demolished to make way for a new 350 bed new facility. Building began in 1827 designed by architect William Wilkins and the new hospital was completed by 1844.

By 1859, a critical shortage of beds led to the addition of an attic floor. This was soon insufficient and led to the creation of a new convalescent hospital, Atkinson Morley’s in Wimbledon, freeing up beds at St George’s for acute patients.

A medical school was established in 1834 at Kinnerton Street and was incorporated into the hospital in 1868. The Medical School, now St George’s, University of London, was built in the south-west corner of the hospital site in Hyde Park, with the main entrance in Knightsbridge and the back entrance in Grosvenor Crescent Mews.

In 1948, the National Health Service was introduced and plans for a new site for St George’s at The Grove Fever and Fountain Hospitals at Tooting were eventually agreed upon. In 1954, the Grove Hospital became part of St George’s, and clinical teaching started in Tooting.

St George’s Hospital, founded in 1733, is a teaching hospital in London, England. It has continuously trained medical students since that date.

Tropical Diseases : a Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates (1898);
Lectures on Tropical Diseases (1905);
Diet in the Diseases of Hot Climates (1908), with Charles Wilberforce Daniels (1862-1927).

Sir Patrick Manson (3 October 1844 in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire - 9 April 1922 in London) was a British physician who made important discoveries in parasitology and was the founder of the tropical medicine field.

He was the son of John Manson and Elizabeth née Blakie. He obtained the Bachelor of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen in 1865, his Master of Surgery in 1866, his Medical Doctorate and Doctor of Law in 1886.

Manson traveled to Formosa (Taiwan) in 1866 as a medical officer to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, where he started a lifelong career in the research of tropical medicine. After 5 years in Formosa (Taiwan), he transferred to Amoy, and worked for another 13 years. Between 1866 and 1889 he practiced medicine in Hong Kong and in Amoy on the Chinese coast. He spent several years trying to identify what caused elephantiasis, a disease he encountered in several of his patients. Using an early compound microscope to examine material obtained from people who had died while suffering from elephantiasis he found thread-like worms within the lymph nodes. He succeeded in demonstrating that the mosquito was the host of the filarial worm Wuchereria bancrofti which provokes filariasis and can cause elephantiasis in some people by a series of experments conducted on his gardener, Hinlo, who was already infected with the parasites. He then suggested that the agent that causes malaria was also spread by a mosquito. This discovery was one of the most important of medical breakthroughs of the time. This hypothesis was proved by Sir Ronald Ross in 1898, who later won the Nobel Prize in 1902 for this discovery. He also demonstrated a new species of Schistosoma (Bilharzia) known as Schistosoma mansoni. He also helped establish a dairy farm in Pok Fu Lam in 1885 and the company Dairy Farm.

Manson married in 1876 to Henrietta Isabella Thurbun, with whom he had three sons and one daughter. He was the founder of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, where Sun Yat-sen was one of his first pupils. In 1911 this became the University of Hong Kong. He returned to London in 1890 and participated at the founding in 1899 and later taught at the School of Tropical Medicine at the Albert Dock Seamen’s Hospital, today the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1900, knighted in 1903 and in the following year awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Oxford.