Medical Education

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Baptist Health College Little Rock
Baptist Health College Little Rock (BHCLR), a part of Baptist Health Medical Center–Little Rock, focuses on ...
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Edwin Bentley (1824–1917)
Edwin Bentley was one of the eight founders of the Arkansas Industrial University Medical Department, now the ...
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Augustus Louis Breysacher (1831–1897)
Augustus Louis Breysacher was one of the eight founders of the Arkansas Industrial University Medical Departme...
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James Anthony Dibrell Jr. (1846–1904)
James Anthony Dibrell Jr. was a founder of the University of Arkansas Medical Department (now the University o...
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Philo Oliver Hooper (1833–1902)
Philo Oliver Hooper has been called the father of Arkansas medicine. He was one of the founders of the Medical...
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Roscoe Greene Jennings (1833–1899)
Roscoe Greene Jennings was one of the eight founders of the Arkansas Industrial University Medical Department,...
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Edith Irby Jones (1927–2019)
Edith Irby Jones was the first African American to attend and to graduate from the University of Arkansas Medi...
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Morgan Smith (1868–1935)
Morgan Smith—a physician, administrator, and legislator—was a leader in the drive to improve public health...
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James Henry Southall (1841–1901)
James Henry Southall was a founding member of the Medical Department of Arkansas Industrial University, the pr...
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is Arkansas’s premier...
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Claibourne Watkins (1844–1908)
Claibourne Watkins was one of three native Arkansan founders of the Medical Department of the Arkansas Industr...