1800 Medical Education

During the mid-18th to late 19th-century medical education/training did not exist, during this time the practice of medicine was not seen as a profession. Everyone who had the desire to be physician could practice medicine, even without any scientific knowledge. According to Shi and Singh (2015), “from about 1800 to 1950, medical training was largely received through an individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician” and not through university education as is do it in the present (p. 87). In the United Stated (U.S.), during the preindustrial era, the American medicine was falling behind compared to the medical education, medical advances and research in Europe. Additionally, medical procedures in the U.S. were primitive and lack a scientific base to support them. “By 1800, only four medical schools existed in the U.S.: College of Philadelphia, King’s College, Harvard Medical School, and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College” (Shi & Singh, 2015, p.87). The medical schools that existed during 1800 were owned and managed by physicians and lacked practical clinical education in hospitals, also required less than the actual years of education for graduation.
improved and implemented a partnership with hospitals to implement a practical medical education in the training of new