Medical Education

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