Draft:Indiana Medical College


 * User:Stuartyeates please do include information on other similarly named institutions as they relate to this subject. FloridaArmy (talk) 14:30, 26 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Notable and missing. FloridaArmy (talk) 10:01, 7 October 2023 (UTC)


 * That entry does not cover this institution, its history, or its alumni. This entry can be expanded. It has an inportant history including spin off schools and controversies. FloridaArmy (talk) 17:21, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Indiana Medical College was a medical school founded in Indianapolis Indiana in 1869. It eventually merged. Clinics were held at the City Hospital. In 1878 it merged with the College of Physicians and Surgeons to become Medical College of Indiana.

It was preceded with Central Medical College and Indiana Medical College (1844–1848) in La Porte, Indiana which moved to Charles, Illinois, Rock, Illinois, and then Keokuk, Iowa.

History
Indiana Medical College in Indianapolis was on North Senate Avenue and expanded to an adjacent property. Clinical studies were carried out at various of the city’s hospitals.

After a dispute with the college, Samuel A. Elbert received an M.D. degree from the school in 1871.

After the merger of various medical schools to become the new Indiana Medical College, the School of Medicine of Purdue University, the alumni group of Central College of Physicians and Surgeons passed a resolution rejecting affiliation with the newly organized entity.

Alumni

 * Samuel A. Elbert, first African American to receive an M.D. degree in Indiana
 * Harvey W. Wiley, author of the Pure Food and Drug Act
 * Mary Thomas, attended lectures at the college