History of the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Medicine:
A Selected List of Sources
The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. A link to information about the history of the MU School of Medicine , from their Web site.
Monographs and Web Pages
Diehl, Harold S. A Medical School for the University of Missouri; a report to a committee of the Board of Curators. 1950. (This report also appears in J Mo State Med Assn 48:203-45, March 1951.)
MU Health Sciences Library RARE BK R747.M52 D5
Flexner, Abraham. Medical Education in the United States and Canada; a report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. New York : Arno Press, 1972.
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MU ELLIS R745 .F57 1972
Goldstein, Max A. One Hundred Years of Medicine and Surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions. St. Louis Star, 1900.
MU Health Sciences Library RARE BK R263 .G62
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Goodwin, E. J. A History of Medicine in Missouri. St. Louis : W.L. Smith, 1905.
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Greene, Charles W. "The School of Medicine ," in Viles, Jonas. The University of Missouri: a centennial history. Columbia: University of Missouri, 1939, pp.455-62.
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McReynolds, Allen. The School of Medicine and its Development at the University of Missouri. An Address... 1950. Statistics on distribution of physicians in Missouri pre-1941 and 1944.
Missouri State Medical Association. A Study of the Factors Affecting the Location of the Proposed Four-Year Medical School at the University of Missouri. 1949.
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MUtation. Presented by the students of the University of Missouri Schools of Medicine & Nursing. 1960-
This is the yearbook of the UMC Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Neal, Marcus Pinson. The Genesis, Heritage, and Progress of Medical Education at the University of Missouri, 1841-1970. Includes illustrations. Portraits of Dean McAlester, Dr. Milton Overholser, Dr. Neal and the "Junior Medics" of 1897. Photographs of McAlester Hall, Parker Memorial Hospital , the Medical Center in 1956, a dissecting laboratory circa 1908, Busch Ampitheatre, Parker Hospital Ward, the Medical Center in 1970 and Frances Quadrangle in 1905. An illustration of the Missouri Medical College in St. Louis . Statistics on the number of practitioners in 1882, enrollment in Missouri medical schools in 1909 and statistics from the Flexner Report.
Some volumes available online.
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The Savitar. The Yearbook for the University of Missouri - Columbia. 1894-.
Many volumes can be browsed and searched online
Stephens, Frank F. A History of the University of Missouri. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1962.
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Stephenson, Hugh E. Aesculapius was a Mizzou tiger: an illustrated history of medicine at Ol' Mizzou. Columbia , Mo. : University of Missouri Medical School Foundation, 1998.
MU Health Sciences Library RARE BK W 19 .S836a 1998
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MU ELLIS SPEC MU R747.M52 S7 1998
STATE HIST SOC REF UMC 378.778 ZM18s 1998
University of Missouri . Board of Curators. The Board of Curators Report on the University of Missouri Survey of Medical Education. January, 1945. Contains discussions on locating the medical school in Kansas City , a table on the distribution of physicians between urban and rural areas in Missouri in 1944 and an appendix with statistics for number of physicians for each county in Missouri in 1944.
MU Health Sciences Library RARE BK R747 .M85A2
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University of Missouri . Board of Curators. The University of Missouri Four-Year School of Medicine and its program. 1951. Photographs of Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital, McAlester Hall, Noyes Hall, Parker Memorial Hospital, State Hospital No. 1 at Fulton. Statistics on the distribution of physicians in Missouri pre-1941 and 1951.
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University of Missouri . Board of Curators. The University of Missouri Medical School and Rural Health Care. 1945. Photographs of State Cancer Hospital and Crippled Children's Ward. Statistics on number of beds at University Hospitals and the State Cancer Hospital in Columbia as well as the State Hospital No. 1 at Fulton and the hospital of the State Penitentiary at Jefferson City.
MU Health Sciences Library RARE BK WA390 .U58 1945
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University of Missouri Bulletin. Directory of Medical Alumni and Former Students. 1928, 1938, 1959, 1963-1970, 1974. Photographs of the medical center, Parker, Noyes, and McAlester hospitals, the medical library, laboratory scenes, and faculty and staff listings. The 1928 and 1938 volumes contain sections on the history of the medical school which include portraits of the deans from 1872-1933.
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University of Missouri Bulletin. School of Medicine Announcements. 1875-1974. These bulletins contain requirements for admission, descriptions of the buildings, equipment, and medical library, the course of instruction outline, course descriptions, faculty listings and photographs.
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University of Missouri School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. "Department History".
Journal Articles
Beatty, William K. "The Medical Library of the University of Missouri ." College and Research Libraries 221 (1959): 205-09.
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Diehl, Harold S. "A Four- Year Medical School for the University of Missouri ." Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association 48 (1951): 203-45.
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Diehl, Harold S. "A Four Year Medical School for the University of Missouri ." (Editorial) Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association 48 (1951): 247.
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Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital Columbia Missouri: Mid-America's Unique State Cancer Center. Ca: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 1964 14:188-191.
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Hosokawa, M. "University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine" academicmedicine.org . Academic Medicine 75 (9 Suppl): S189-90, 2000 Sep.
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Lobeck, Charles. " UMC Four-Year Medical School Observes 25th Anniversary." Missouri Medicine 78 (1981): 293, 297.
Mayer WD. University of Missouri-Columbia Medical Center "one century and we've just begun". ." Missouri Medicine. 70(4):211-5, 1973 Apr.
Mayer WD. A review of 1973-1974. University of Missouri-Columbia Medical Center. ." Missouri Medicine. 71(4):162-4, 1974 Apr. Brief statistics on number of applicants and graduates in 1981.
Mayer, W. D. "1968-1969 at the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical Center. A review ." Missouri Medicine 66 (1969): 245-9.
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Mayer, W. D. "The University of Missouri-Columbia Medical Center: a resource for all Missourians." Missouri Medicine 67 (1970): 207-14.
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Mayer, William D. "Development of a New Curriculum at the University of Missouri School of Medicine ." Missouri Medicine 61 (1964): 279-81.
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"Miscellany: University of Missouri " Missouri Medicine 53(1956) :1012-1017. A brief item describing the opening of the new Medical Sciences Building , Medical Center , and University Hospital.
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Wilson , Vernon E. "Annual Progress Report on the University of Missouri School of Medicine ." Missouri Medicine 60 (1963): 337-9, 343. Statistics on students enrolled in the health professions, outpatient visits in 1963 and 1959-60, average hospital census and total available beds.
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Wilson , Vernon E. "The Medical School of a Land-Grant University and its Relation to the Health Care of the State. Medical Manpower -- a continuing crisis." Journal of the American Medical Association 202 (October 1967): 404-6.
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Wilson , Vernon E. "University of Missouri Medical Center : a Progress Report." Missouri Medicine 61 (1964): 273-8. Statistics on patient admissions and clinic visits in 1963, applications for admission and class size in 1964.
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Wilson , Vernon E. "The University of Missouri School of Medicine ." Missouri Medicine 57 (1960): 460-8. Statistics on number of beds in the University Hospital in 1960, the number of students receiving instruction at the Medical Center by discipline, the number of medical faculty, the number of patient admissions and clinic visits in 1960.
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Additional Sources of Information
The Columbia Missourian Newspaper Library 133 Neff Annex
573-882-4876
http://web.missouri.edu/~jlibrwww/
This library maintains newspaper article clip files for the Health Sciences Center dating from the 1950's until 2000. The " Health Sciences Center " clip files include sub-categories, such as staff, ambulance service, and various clinics/departments. Newspaper articles are now filed under " University of Missouri Health Care ." It also holds a file of photographs of the Health Sciences Center from 1956 to the present.
Rare Books Room
J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library
573-882-6141
http://library.muhealth.org/about/location/rarebookroom.htm
This collection includes the medical school announcement catalogs, selected monographs and other miscellaneous materials.
Special Collections
402 Ellis Library
573-882-7461
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/index.htm
This collection contains proceedings of conferences held at the medical school, the directories of medical alumni, bulletins and newsletters of various departments within the medical school and MUtations, the yearbooks of the medical and nursing schools.
State Historical Society of Missouri
1020 Lowry Street
573-882-7083
http://www.umsystem.edu/shs/index.shtml
The University of Missouri catalogs and yearbooks, Savitar, are located here. The pictorial collection includes photographs of Parker Memorial Hospital and the Medical Center . Missouri newspapers from 1808 to present are available on microfilm.
University Archives
726 Lewis Hall
573-882-7567
http://muarchives.missouri.edu/
The Archives act as the official repository for all administrative files of departments within the University. These files include general correspondence, reports, studies, surveys, photographs, etc. The official files of all University committees, councils, boards and task forces are also kept here. Photographs held here include the interiors of Parker Memorial Hospital and the nurses' dormitories, construction of the Medical Cener, and early medical students with cadavers.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection/ State Historical Society of Missouri Manuscripts
23 Ellis Library
573-882-6028
http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/