Mukden Medical College (1911–1949): an outpost of Edinburgh medicine in northeast China. Part 1: 1882–1917;building the foundations and opening the College
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Mukden Medical College (1911–1949): an outpost of Edinburgh medicine in northeast China. Part 1: 1882–1917;building the foundations and opening the College
Scottish physician Dugald Christie, an 1881 licentiate of both the RCPE and the RCSEd, was the first medical missionary sent to China by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He commenced practice in the city of Mukden (Shenyang) in Manchuria in 1883. In 1892 he started to train student assistants and in 1911 founded the Mukden Medical College (Fengtian yi ke da xue). Edinburgh-trained physicians and surgeons largely staffed this college, the first Western medical school in Manchuria.
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