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Hopkins Medical School's Founding Shift Toward Women and Reform
The Hopkins medical school faced endowment woes until trustees and Mary Garrett linked funding to admitting women with degree and language requirements. Osler and the Big Four shaped a lab and hospital based, research driven curriculum emphasizing learning by doing. The campus has transformed, with only three of seventeen original hospitals remaining as modern facilities rise around a transformed scene.
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