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The Department of Internal Medicine at AUB
October 11th, 2016
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The history of the Department of Internal Medicine at AUB is as long as the university’s history itself. The department – officially called the Department of Internal Medicine and Chemistry – has had its milestones, difficult moments and controversial moments as well. Since it was among the first departments inaugurated (started in 1867, some months after the first class of the university) in the school, it started in a rented building as the school did. From then, it has grown in leaps and bounds through the leadership of visionary and competent men. The founder of the department is Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck who had earned his degree at the Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania. He had come into Syria as a medical missionary. He is also known to have translated the Bible into Arabic. He taught clinical medicine and ophthalmology till his resignation in 1883. In line with the school’s ideology, The Department of Internal Medicine’s classes was held in Arabic. That changed in 1883 when the language of teaching switched to English. The department modeled after the American system tweaked its system by offering four years, instead of the three years obtained in American universities except Harvard. Perhaps till this day, the Department of Internal Medicine at AUB is well-known for the “Lewis Affair”. The affair started after a speech by Dr. Edwin Lewis, which became what it was and still is, not just because of what Dr. Lewis said, but because of the school’s reaction to the speech. Dr. Lewis had praised Charles Darwin and his methods in his commencement speech, to the chagrin of the Board of Trustees and then school president – Daniel Bliss. Because of the public nature of the event, the school decided to go public as well, with devastating effect. Under immense pressure from the board, he resigned his position at the college. What followed was the resignation of all members of the department except one member(Dr. George Post), including Dr. Cornelius Van Dyck – the first chair and founder of the department – student protest, which caused 17 students' suspension, and a Declaration of Principles for all faculty members. In 1900, it began the splitting of the program into various disciplines, represented by their own departments. After the French mandate in the late 1920s and extreme difficulties during this period; the school began to blossom in the 1950s. This period between 1950 and early 1970s are still regarded as the department’s “golden era”. This was possible by the exchange program where graduate students travelled to the US for more advanced training and return home to lead various units within the department. This tradition has largely continued today, and continues to spur the school on towards perpetual excellence. Can you Seach for the departments? Image courtesy of: http://insert.ro/product-category/multidisciplinare/ |
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