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The Howard University College of Medicine (HUCM) is an academic division of Howard University, and grants the Doctor of Medicine (MD), Ph.D., MS, and the MPH. HUCM is located at the Howard University Health Sciences Center in Washington, D.C., and was founded in 1868 in response to the city's growing population. The College of Medicine ranks among the top three schools in meeting the nation’s medical needs and social mission. With more than 4,000 living alumni, the College has produced a sizeable share of the African-American physicians practicing in this country. The mission of the College of Medicine includes improving health care through training programs and initiatives, discovering knowledge through research and supporting the education and training of postgraduate physicians, other healthcare providers and graduate students in biomedical sciences. Many College of Medicine students gain professional experience at Howard University Hospital, the primary teaching hospital for the school. ==History== Founders of Howard University appreciated the urgent need for medical education in the District of Columbia after the Civil War. Howard University is named after Major General Oliver Otis Howard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A short history )〕 The civil war had just ended, and freed African-American people were migrating to the nation's capital in large numbers.〔 The first opening exercise for the newly created Medical Department was held at the First Congregational Church of Christ on November 5, 1868. The charter approving incorporation of Howard University specified that a department would be devoted to medicine. Dr. Silas Loomis, one of the University’s founders, was named the Medical Department’s first dean in 1868.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://healthsciences.howard.edu/education/colleges/medicine/about/mission/short-history )〕 One of the first five faculty members was Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta, reportedly the first African-American to serve on a medical school faculty in the United States.〔 The first classes began on Nov. 9, 1868, with eight students and five faculty members (Drs. Silas Loomis, Robert Reyburn, Joseph Taber Johnson, Lafayette Loomis and Alexander Thomas Augusta).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://healthsciences.howard.edu/education/colleges/medicine/about/mission/short-history )〕 Dr. Augusta is often recognized as the first African American to serve on a medical school faculty in the United States. In 1869, a building for the Medical Department and Freedmen’s Hospital was constructed by the Freedmen’s Bureau on Pomeroy Street, presently Fifth Street NW. The building housed the medical and pharmacy program (and later the dental program), as well as the Freedmen’s Hospital. In 1927, a new facility was constructed on W Street.〔 The College of Medicine’s first alumni association was formed in 1871 by the five graduates of that year (William Bennit, James Bowen, George Brooks, Danforth Nichols and Joseph Sladen). In 1945, the Howard University Medical Alumni Association (HUMAAA) was incorporated in the District of Columbia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.humaa.com/page.aspx?pid=327 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Howard University College of Medicine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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