Draft:Timeline of medical education in Indiana

1800s
1833: 1837 1838 1841 1846
 * The Christian College at New Albany, largely regarded as a diploma mill, offers courses, but not degrees, in medicine. It closes the same year.
 * Vincennes University's medical department is founded.
 * Vincennes' medical department closes.
 * The LaPorte University School of Medicine (LPSM) is founded.
 * LPSM is renamed to the Indiana Medical College.

1849:

1851:
 * The Indiana Central Medical College is founded in Indianapolis as the medical department of Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University).
 * The Medical College of Evansville is founded.


 * The Indiana Medical College merges into the Indiana Central Medical College.

1852:


 * The Indiana Central Medical College closes.

1854:


 * The Medical College of Evansville temporarily closes.

1869:


 * The Indiana Medical College (unrelated to the former LPSM) is founded in Indianapolis as an outgrowth of the Indianapolis Academy of Medicine.

1871:


 * The Medical College of Evansville reopens.
 * The Indiana Medical College associates with Indiana University (IU).

1873:


 * The Physiomedical College of Indiana is founded in Indianapolis.

1874:


 * The College of Physicians and Surgeons is founded in Indianapolis as a breakway school from the Indiana Medical College following a dispute over admissions practices.

1876:


 * The Medical College of Fort Wayne opens.
 * The Indiana Medical College's association with IU ends due to a lack of state funding.

1878:


 * The Indiana College of Medicine and Midwifery opens in Indianapolis.
 * The Indiana Medical College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons reunite as the Medical College of Indiana and associate with Butler University.

1879:


 * The Fort Wayne College of Medicine is founded (unrelated to the Medical College of Fort Wayne).
 * The Central College of Physicians and Surgeons opens in Indianapolis as a breakaway school from the Medical College of Indiana.

1880:


 * The Indiana Eclectic Medical College opens in Indianapolis.

1881:


 * The Medical College of Evansville permanently closes.
 * The Curtis Physiomedical Institute opens in Marion.

1882:


 * The Hospital Medical College of Evansville opens.

1883:


 * The Medical College of Fort Wayne closes.
 * Beach Medical College opens in Indianapolis.

1886:


 * The Hospital Medical College of Evansville closes.
 * Beach Medical College closes.

1888:


 * The Indiana College of Medicine and Midwifery closes.

1890:

1893:
 * The Indiana Eclectic Medical College closes.
 * The Eclectic College of Physicians and Surgeons opens in Indianapolis.
 * The Fort Wayne College of Medicine associates with Taylor University


 * The Fort Wayne College of Medicine's association with Taylor ends.

1894:


 * The Eclectic College of Physicians and Surgeons closes.
 * The American Medical College of Indianapolis opens.

C. 1895:


 * Purdue University's medical department opens in West Lafayette.

1896:


 * Butler, the Medical College of Indiana, and the Indiana Law School join together to form the University of Indianapolis, an unrelated institution to the modern university.

1897:


 * The American Medical College of Indianapolis closes.
 * The University of Medicine opens in Indianapolis.

1898:


 * The University of Medicine closes.

1900s
1900:

1901:
 * The Curtis Physiomedical Institute closes.
 * The Eclectic Medical College of Indiana opens.


 * The Chicago Eclectic Medical College is founded in Chicago.

1902:
 * The Valparaiso University School of Medicine (VUSM) opens.
 * The Chicago Eclectic Medical College is renamed to the American College of Medicine and Surgery and purchased by VUSM.

1903:

1904:
 * The Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) is founded in Bloomington.
 * Talks begin for the Medical College of Indiana (MCI) to become IUSM's Indianapolis campus.


 * The Central College of Physicians and Surgeons (CCPS) requests to become Purdue University's medical school; the offer is rejected by the Purdue trustees not wanting to interfere with the talks between the MCI and IUSM.
 * Talks between the MCI and IUSM are indefinitely postponed.

1905:


 * The MCI submits the same proposal it negotiated with IUSM to the Purdue trustees; the offer is accepted and it becomes the "Indiana Medical College, the School of Medicine of Purdue University."
 * The CCPS joins the Purdue School of Medicine.
 * The Fort Wayne College of Medicine transfers equipment and personnel to Indianapolis and joins the Purdue School of Medicine.

1906:

1907:
 * The State College of Physicians and Surgeons is founded in Indianapolis by Indiana University supporters. Clinical faculty are recruited from those unhappy with the arrangement with Purdue.


 * The American College of Medicine and Surgery is renamed to the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (CCM&S).

1908:


 * Purdue and IU reach an agreement: IUSM's Indianapolis campus is founded as a merger of the Purdue School of Medicine and the State College of Physicians and Surgeons.
 * The Eclectic Medical College of Indiana closes.

1909:


 * The Physiomedical College of Indiana closes.

1917:


 * VUSM closes as Valparaiso University declares bankruptcy; the CCM&S is sold to Loyola University Chicago, becoming the Stritch School of Medicine in 1948.

1958:


 * IUSM's Bloomington campus closes.

1968:


 * IUSM's Bloomington campus reopens.
 * IUSM's South Bend and West Lafayette campuses open.

1971:


 * IUSM's Muncie and Terre Haute campuses open.

1972:


 * IUSM's Evansville and Gary campuses open.

1981:


 * IUSM's Fort Wayne campus opens.

2000s
2010:


 * The Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MUCOM) is founded in Indianapolis.