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As the state’s flagship medical school, the its way to becoming a world-class medical a comprehensive academic medical center
University of Kentucky College of Medi- center. The unwavering devotion of so many widely recognized for its achievements.
cine has been on a mission for the last 50 people throughout the years, from Lexington Those same principles that were set forth
years: To provide optimum health care to all physicians to govermnent and university offi- 50 years ago to guide the new College of
Kentuckians. Throughout each ofthe Hve Medicine continue to direct it now.
decades, there have been great triumphs in . ’·   \What follows here are just a few of the
the college’s never-ending quest to produce Q_ __ ·‘   _` __ pgp;  ;;$..,}_ ··;'y g important events that made the college
world-class physicians and scientists, per- I · -· _· *‘ * ` ' "· T     il" `gj what it is today. T ·
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when the Hrst ` y y, . cials, Hnally made the dream possible. The Hrst person admitted to the Univer- ·
dean, William N The UK College of Medicine officially sity Hospital is a patient of Dr. ]acqueline
, R. Willard, A l ¤ ff 35 opened in September 1960. After receiving A. Noonan, UK Pediatrics. She is treated
M.D., said that f `\ l § more than 400 applications, it admitted its for a congenital heart defect that occurs
he “...is the ,   l   ,l "go Hrst class of 40 students. The group in- soon after birth in some babies. Noonan
only medical _¤ ‘ ` § cluded 39 men and one woman; 33 were later became internationally known for her
school dean in , _     Kentuckians, the other seven represented description of a genetic disorder now
the United ? é Hve different states. called Noonan Syndrome, characterized by
States who . Over the course ofthe next 50 years, the distinct facial traits, short stature and con-
presides over a Dean Vlmllam Rl Vlmlard college was home to notable faculty and genital cardiac defects.
cornHeld,° the College of Medicine has been successful alumni, as well as the source of
on an extraordinary journey. many signiHcant scientihc, educational and 1962
That cornheld, a section ofthe UK Agri- clinical breakthroughs. The college has lit- The original UK Medical Center complex
cultural Experimental Station farm, was on erally marched forward from a cornHeld to is completed at a cost of $27.8 million.
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Dean Marcia Dake, Ed.D. and the fac- and grades. The program utilized an “in- downward pointing form represents
ulty she recruited came to UK with a tegrated” rather than block curriculum “man’s mediocrity, his failures, and dis-
mission: to create an innovative program which promoted wellness rather than appointments,” according to its creator
that would serve as a model to_other for- just focusing on a patient’s disease. Amarigo ]. Brioschi.
` ward-looking 1n 1961 a student committee designed
nursing edu- a nurse’s cap and selected an appropriate
cators. Fac- uniform consisting ofa double-breasted _; ,1*   ~ /  P .§’°
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built on this T5 shoes and limitedjewelry. Their hair had 1'{'L T': ‘ I ` `W  
goal and set -»»¤·· Es to be off their collars and always neat. §
their sights § 1n ]anuary 1962 the first graduate of Théérl mal Ul> 14 Fall 2010