My maternal
grandfather was Leo B. Couch MD. He was Born in 1886 and
home-schooled on the family farm. At age 11, he took on
a factory job to earn money to pay a science tutor. At age 16 he entered Barnes Medical College in St. Louis
Mo in 1902. He graduated at the top of his class in 1906, was
Named Professor of Internal Medicine and taught Internal
Medicine during his Surgical Residency. He completed surgical
residency and opened his Medical Practice in 1908.
Barnes Medical College was organized in
1892 as a for-profit school by a group of St. Louis
physicians and business leaders. While the school was
named for philanthropist Robert Barnes, it
received none of the money he had bequeathed to a
hospital. Barnes quickly became the largest medical college in
the city.
Barnes Medical College - St.
Louis, Missouri 1892-1911 –Washington University has
recently made available archival materials for both Barnes Medical College and
its partner American Medical College. Faculty from Barnes Medical College
edited The Medical Era, often including articles about the
college.
Barnes Medical College was organized in 1892
as a for-profit school by a group of St. Louis
physicians and business leaders. While the school
was named for philanthropist Robert Barnes, it received
none of the money he had bequeathed to a
hospital. Barnes quickly became the largest medical college in
the city. The 1899 graduating class totaled
203. The Medical Era praised
Barnes as being among the first medical schools to advocate for a higher standard of
education for candidates preliminary to their entering
medical school and as being among the first to adopt a
four-year program.
After the college added Centenary
Hospital in 1902, students then had an adjoining clinical
facility. Barnes Medical School opened in a new building at the corner of Lawton and Beaumont in downtown St.
Louis. By 1896 enrollment had increased so that a
second building became necessary. That was a
five-story building on the northeast corner of Lawton and
Garrison. In 1902 Centenary Hospital was completed,
providing a clinical facility for the college as well as
a dispensary, a dental school, and training school for
nurses. It adjoined the main building.
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Barnes
Medical College was ultimately replaced by Washington University Medical School.
In 1971, I joined Washington University to establish the Personnel function on
the Medical School 5 Hospital Campus.
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