The Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty helped the Qing Dynasty to see the changes in the outside world clearly, and brought advanced science and technology and ideas to old China, and China's first public medical college was born at this time.
In 1881, Li Hongzhang founded a medical hall in the Beiyang Medical Bureau, recruiting four-year and three-year students respectively, and hired Ma Genji, a doctor of the British Missionary Society, as a physician, thus opening the starting point of Western medical education. When Ma Genji went, the forensic doctor Meni was appointed by Li Hongzhang in 1893 to establish the Tianjin Military Medical Hall on Hai Avenue in the French Concession of Tianjin on the basis of the Medical Museum, which is the location of the current Tianjin Stomatological Hospital. At the same time, it is attached to the Beiyang Hospital, which specializes in training military medical talents. Li Hongzhang wrote a plaque for the school and the hospital, which are Beiyang Medical Hall and Beiyang Hospital.
At the beginning of its establishment, it only recruited students from Guangdong Province, not only free of charge for board and lodging, but also 22 yuan per month. In 1910, the school was placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Admiralty, and the school was renamed the Beiyang Naval Medical School, in 1913 it was renamed the Zhili Public Medical College, and in 1915 it was renamed the Naval Medical School, but due to lack of funds, it was closed in March 1930, with a total of 219 graduates in 16 classes, and the hospital was also closed in 1933.
Although the conditions of the school are good, the entrance exam is not so simple. The maximum number of students enrolled at a time is 30. In the first round, the principal will conduct an interview in English, and on the second day, the results will be released, and the passers will take the written test. The written test will be tested one at a time, and the list will be released the next day, and only those who are on the list can participate in the next exam, and the classes will be pushed in turn. The written test has English composition, Chinese composition, arithmetic, physics and chemistry, etc., so the elimination rate is extremely high, and the 30 students around the top are already the best.
Beiyang Medical College is the first medical school in China to teach Western medicine, and Beiyang Hospital is also the earliest public hospital in China. However, no matter how good a doctor is, he can't save the stormy Qing**.
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