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Sir William Osler writing to his friend John Mullen, November 8, 1886. When Baltimore merchant banker Johns Hopkins died in 1873, he left $7,000,000 to establish a new university and hospital, with a medical school to unite them. He had envisioned a university on a German model, where the students would be highly qualified, and the faculty ...
A scientist, doctor and teacher, Osler never made any major medical discoveries. But he wrote a landmark medical textbook, reformed medical education, and changed the lives of multitudes.
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS FRCP ( / ˈɒzlər /; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Sir William Osler (1849-1919) was a Canadian physician often called "the father of modern medicine" for the central role he played in revolutionizing medical education via the internship and residency system at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where medicine was taught "at the bedside."
Jun 8, 2018 · 1849-1919. Canadian Physician and Professor of Medicine. C anadian William Osler influenced the establishment of medical education in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. An outstanding clinician, he sought to lead physicians away from textbooks and to the bedsides of patients.
Dec 13, 2007 · Last Edited June 30, 2022. Sir William Osler, physician, writer, educator (born 12 July 1849 in Bond Head, Canada West [ Ontario ]; died 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England). Osler was a physician and professor of medicine who helped revolutionize medical education.
Oct 28, 2000 · Michael Bliss. Oxford University Press, £27.50, pp 581. ISBN 0 19 512346 8. Rating: When Sir William Osler died in 1919 he was widely judged to have been among the greatest physicians of all time. It is hard to imagine any present day doctor attracting such near universal adulation.
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