title: Jewish medical students and graduates at the universities of padua and leiden: 1617-1740.
abstract: The first Jewish medical graduates at the University of Padua qualified in the fifteenth century. Indeed, Padua was the only medical school in Europe for most of the medieval period where Jewish students could study freely. Though Jewish students came to Padua from many parts of Europe the main geographical sources of its Jewish students were the Venetian lands. However, the virtual Padua monopoly on Jewish medical education came to an end during the seventeenth century as the reputation of the Dutch medical school in Leiden grew. For aspiring medieval Jewish physicians Padua was, for around three hundred years, the first, simplest, and usually the only choice.
authors.affiliation: Editor of Vesalius, Journal of the International Society for the History of Medicine; Research Fellow, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK; and Visiting Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Collins
keywords: Jewish medical students; Jewish physicians; Padua
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