-Click image to enlarge- | Aerial View of the Medical Campus
This aerial view of the Medical Campus includes the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, established in 1962 and the nine story Mailman Center for Child Development, which opened in 1971.
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-Click image to enlarge- | First Medical School Graduates, 1956
In 1956 the first class of 26 medical doctors graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine. The class was comprised of 23 men and 3 women. Accreditation for the School came four years after in was founded in 1952. The School of Medicine was still operating in its temporary Biltmore Hotel quarters at this time.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Hurricane Andrew
Doctors offered vaccines from a tent on campus after Hurricane Andrew in August, 1992. University faculty, administrators and students responded immediately to help the community. The faculty and administration set up a phone bank to contact every UM employee and verify their safety. Students worked in groups to collect supplies and deliver them to the most damaged areas in South Florida.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Mailman Center for Child Development, Medical Campus
The Mailman Center became operational in 1971 in an imposing structure at 1601 N.W. 12th Avenue. Built at a cost of about $8 million, it consists of a nine-story tower connected by a covered walkway at the second floor level to the two-story Debbie Institute.
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-Click image to enlarge- | Medical Students in the Classroom
Doctors in training get a good look at a liver in the 1950s. In 1952, President Ashe negotiated a lease for the hotel staff dormitory of the Biltmore Hotel Hospital. The University of Miami School of Medicine got its start in this grand, historic building in Coral Gables. The pre-clinical departments and classes were housed in their "temporary" quarters for 17 years.
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-Click image to enlarge- | President Stanford with Medical School Deans
Dr. Henry King Stanford posed with deans of the School of Medicine who had served from the formation of the School in 1952 until the mid-1970s. They are, from left to right: Dr. E.M. Papper, Dr. Homer F. Marsh, President Stanford, Dr. Robert J. Spicer, and Dr. Robert B. Lawson.
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