Session 2: Nine Greats Who Helped Create Hopkins Medicine

The founding of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine fundamentally changed medicine in America. In the blink of an eye, medicine was transformed from a trade practiced by poorly educated craftsmen, to a science practiced by highly educated physicians. While this transformation may seem perfectly obvious in retrospect, the challenges were significant. In the second session of this lecture-based course, join Ralph Hruban, MD, Director of Pathology and Distinguished Alumnus as he tells the story of the founding of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine through the lives of William Welch and William Halsted Osler. To learn more, visit jhu.edu/hopkinsathome