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A&M College of Medicine opens its doors
On this day in 1977, the charter class entered the Texas A&M University
College of Medicine. The school had its beginning in 1971, when the
Texas legislature authorized the Texas College and University System
Coordinating Board to designate a state institution of higher learning
"for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a medical school
to be located at or in connection with any Veterans Administration
facility that may be made available for that purpose." Two years later
the Coordinating Board designated Texas A&M University as the
state-supported university system to administer a program in medical
education. Application was made to the Veterans Administration later
that year, and announcement was made in 1975 of an award of $17,071,609
in support of the new program. Negotiations were completed with the
Veterans Administration in Washington and with Scott and White Memorial
Hospital in Temple for conduct of the newly funded program. The first
class of thirty-two physicians graduated on June 6, 1981. In 1991 the
board of regents of the Texas A&M University System established the
Texas A&M University Health Science Center, with the College of Medicine
as its initial focal program.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
- TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
- SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
- MEDICAL EDUCATION
- HEALTH AND MEDICINE
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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