The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College was established in 1797 by Nathan Smith, a Harvard-educated New Englander, who received his medical training in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dartmouth Medical School, as it was originally named, is the fourth-oldest medical school in the United States and is ranked as a "top medical school" by US News & World Report for both primary care and biomedical research. The institution grants the Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees, Master of Public Health (MPH), and Master of Science (MS) degrees. The school has a student body of about 700 students, who receive medical training in the classroom as well as at numerous clinical partners, including Dartmouth-Hitchcock (NH) Medical Center, White River Junction (VT) VA Medical Center, California Pacific (CA) Medical Center, and Manchester (NH) VA Medical Center.
Black History[]
Dartmouth Medical School conferred medical degrees to black enrollees beginning in the late nineteenth century. Many were from Liberia, a resettlement colony in West Africa established in 1821 for American free blacks and freed slaves. The school's earliest alumni include:
- Louis Charles Roudanez (Geisel, 1857)
- John Anthony Parm (Geisel, 1871)
- John Naustedla Lewis (Geisel, 1873)
- Hilary John Moore (Geisel, 1883)
- Julius Purcell Haynes (Geisel, 1888)
- George Alexandre Roudanez (Geisel, 1890)
- Louis Charles Roudanez, II (Geisel, 1890)
- Albert Francis Roudanez (Geisel, 1892)
- George Waltham Bell (Geisel, 1893)