Mukden Medical College

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Mukden Medical College (also spelt Moukden Medical College) was a medical school in Mukden (now Shenyang), China, founded in 1892 as the Shenching Medical School.

The Mukden Medical College grew out of the Mukden Hospital, founded by Dr. Dugald Christie, a Scottish missionary doctor, whose son, Ronald Christie, later became Dean of Medicine at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. In 1884 a 12-bed hospital was opened by Dr. Christie with the support from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and a few young men were enrolled as apprentices to this hospital. After three years of study, they were given certificates as medical assistants, pharmacists or nursing aides.

In 1892 eight young men were enrolled for a 5-year programmed and as a result, a preliminary medical school, the Shenching Medical School, was established. Between 1892 and 1910 Dr. Christie lobbied and fund-raised in China and Scotland as he wished to open a more formal medical school. In 1911 a four-storey building was completed beside the hospital and the college accepted its first students and opened as the Mukden Medical College in January 1912. In 1934 the University of Edinburgh recognised graduates of the College, which allowed them to gain admittance to various graduate programmes in Edinburgh. From 1939-1945 the Mukden Medical College was renamed, in English, the Christie Memorial Medical College to avoid confusion with the Japanese Manchuria Medical College in the same city.

The original name, Mukden Medical College, was restored in 1945 and it was briefly known as the Liaoning Medical College before being absorbed in 1949 by the China Medical University, the first medical school established by the Communist Party of China.

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• "A brief History of Mukden Medical College - Fengtian Yike Daxue", 1992, Shenyang, Liaoning
• Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2006, [1] [2]