Women were not permitted to enter the medical course until 1887
Women were not permitted to enter the medical course until 1887
The medical school at the University of Melbourne is established. The school's founder, eminent English physician, Anthony Colling Brownless, determined the standard at Melbourne would be higher than at any other medical school in the English-speaking world, insisted on the introduction of a five year medical course, a contrast to the four year course which was then common for medical training. George Britton Halford, one of the most distinguished physiologists of the day, is appointed the school's first professor.
Patrick Moloney and William Carey Rees become the first two students to graduate from the medical school.
The School of Medicine becomes the Faculty of Medicine with George Britton Halford elected unanimously as dean.
Harry Allen, the top medical graduate in 1876, is appointed second professor.
The first women enter the medical faculty: Clara Stone, Margaret Whyte, Grace Vale, Elizabeth O'Hara, Helen Sexton, Lilian Alexander and Annie O'Hara.
The Melbourne Dental Hospital is established and the first students were admitted John Iliffe, a leading Melbourne dentist, called meetings to establish a dental hospital.
Margaret Whyte tops the honours list in medicine and surgery when she and Clara Stone become the first two women to graduate in medicine in Australia.
The Australian College of Dentistry is established by leading Melbourne dentist, John Iliffe and colleagues.
The Australian College of Dentistry under a tripartite agreement between the university, the college and the Dental Board of Victoria becomes the Faculty of Dental Surgery
Fannie Gray becomes the first woman to gain the Bachelor of Dental Surgery in Victoria and the first building developed specifically for the dental college and dental hospital is established at 193 Spring Street, Melbourne.
Frank Clare Wilkinson, qualified in both dentistry and medicine, travels from England to take up the first chair of dental science.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet Melbourne (who graduated in 1922) receives the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Britain's Peter Medawar for their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance. Their findings explained how an organism's body is able to distinguish between its own cells and those of another organism and is the concept on which tissue transplantation is founded.
The Medical Faculty celebrates its centenary with a scientific and social program on immunology, coronary heart disease, strokes and medical education. Since opening its doors, the faculty had graduated 5,794 students.
John Eccles (who graduated in 1925) receives the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley, for their groundbreaking work on the chemical changes that take place at synapses and the way signals are transferred from one nerve to another in the brain.
Dental Science and Medicine amalgamate to form the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
Joan McMeeken is appointed to the foundation chair of physiotherapy and the School of Physiotherapy is established, welcoming its foundation class of 40 students in February. The faculty signifies its broader role in the university and the community by becoming the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
Psychology, first offered by the University of Melbourne in 1946, transfers from the Faculty of Arts to become the School of Behavioural Science in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
The first group of Bachelor of Physiotherapy students graduate.
Nursing is established in the faculty with Judith Parker appointed to the foundation chair of postgraduate nursing. The first students graduate from the School of Postgraduate Nursing the next year.
Changes to the medical curriculum are implemented which offer students early clinical exposure and problem-based learning. Graduate entry to the course is also pioneered with the first cohort of graduates entering the course in 2000.
Australia's first School of Population Health is established in the faculty, with Terry Nolan as its foundation professor and head. A landmark in the development of inter-collegiate study and research, the school combines a range of social science and medical humanity studies with epidemiology, biostatistics and biomedical sciences, clinical medicine and molecular biology to focus on rural health, indigenous health and health care services, as well as the traditional public health areas of communicable and chronic diseases.
Rural Health is established with David Simmons appointed to the foundation chair of rural health.
Three nursing graduates, Anna Green, Matt Dixon and Dot Henning are formally endorsed as the first nurse practitioners for the state of Victoria.