September 20, 1870 – Dr. Washington F. Peck and his team of physician friends – all younger than 40 years old – open the new SUI Medical Department in Iowa City.
Thirty-seven students, including eight women, formed the first class, with SUI being the first medical school west of the Mississippi to admit women on equal footing with men. The curriculum consisted of five daily lectures and four weekly clinical demonstrations from October to April, with the same sequence repeated for the second year – a typical mid-19th-century medical education.
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