title: Japanese medicine in Manchuria: the South Manchuria Medical College.
abstract: During the eleven years of its existence as Namman Igakudo, the school graduated 421 physicians; after it was upgraded to a university-level school in 1922, there were, 1,181 graduates until the college closed as a Japanese institution in 1946. There were over 500 graduates from the second-level, Igaku Semmon-bu, between 1929 and 1946. The graduated of the school became leaders of Japanese-sponsored programs in medicine and public health in Manchuria. Others returned to the home islands as practitioners; those who wished to enter academic medicine usually turned in time to Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine. The S.M.M.C. played a unique role in medical research in Japan. Further, it became one of the leading medical schools in China.
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008986:Mongolia; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000266:history; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history; D012425:Russia (Pre-1917); D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology