Mukden Medical College
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Mukden Medical College was a medical school
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 in Mukden
Shenyang
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 (now Shenyang
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Shenyang , or Mukden , is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Currently holding sub-provincial administrative status, the city was once known as Shengjing or Fengtianfu...

), China
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, founded in 1892 as the Shenching Medical School.

The Mukden Medical College grew out of the Mukden Hospital or Sheng Jing Hospital
Sheng Jing Hospital
The Sheng Jing Hospital was originally founded by Dugald Christie , a Scottish missionary doctor in 1883. It was the base on which the Mukden Medical College was formed, also by Christie, in 1912...

, founded by Dr. Dugald Christie
Dugald Christie (missionary)
Dugald Christie was born in Scotland in 1855 and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. In 1882/83 he was sent to Mukden in northeastern China as a medical missionary and opened the Shengjing Clinic. The clinic became a hospital and in 1911/12 Christie was responsible for the...

, a Scottish
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 missionary doctor, whose son, Ronald Christie, later became Dean of Medicine at McGill University
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 in Montréal
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, Québec
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, Canada
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. In 1883 and 1884 a 12-bed hospital was opened by Dr. Christie with support from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
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 and a few young men were enrolled as apprentices to this hospital. After three years of study, they were given certificates as medical assistants, pharmacists
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 or nursing
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 aides.

In 1892 eight young men were enrolled for a 5-year programmed and as a result, a preliminary medical school, the Shenching Medical School, was established. Between 1892 and 1910 Dr. Christie lobbied and fund-raised in China and Scotland as he wished to open a more formal medical school. In 1911 a four-storey building was completed beside the hospital and the college accepted its first students and opened as the Mukden Medical College in January 1912. In 1934 the University of Edinburgh
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 recognised graduates of the College, which allowed them to gain admittance to various graduate programmes in Edinburgh
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. From 1939-1945 the Mukden Medical College was renamed, in English
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, the Christie Memorial Medical College to avoid confusion with the (Japan
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ese) Manchuria Medical College - run by the South Manchuria Railway
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 - which was also in Mukden.

The original name, Mukden Medical College, was restored in 1945 and it was briefly known as the Liaoning Medical College before being absorbed in 1949 (along with the Manchuria Medical College) by the China Medical University
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, the first medical school established by the Communist Party of China
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.

The Hospital Today

The Mukden Medical College operated a teaching hospital, in fact it grew out of the hospital originally founded by Dugald Christie. After 1949, when the MMC was absorbed by the China Medical University, this hospital became known as the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of the [China Medical University (PRC)|China Medical University]]. It is now known as the Sheng Jing Hospital
Sheng Jing Hospital
The Sheng Jing Hospital was originally founded by Dugald Christie , a Scottish missionary doctor in 1883. It was the base on which the Mukden Medical College was formed, also by Christie, in 1912...


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