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Michael W. Mulholland, MD, PhD; Lazar J. Greenfield, MD
Ann Arbor, Mich

Arch Surg. 2003;138:1282.

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IN JANUARY 1837, Michigan was formally admitted to the Union by an act of Congress, and the state legislature, on March 18th, passed an act establishing the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The University initially consisted of 3 departments: literature, science, and arts, law, and medicine. The surgical faculty at the University of Michigan was formally established in October 1850 and from its inception differed from all others. Faculty members were paid salaries as professors of the University. Research and education, in addition to clinical practice, were recognized and valued from the beginning. For more than a century and a half, the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan has served both the state and the nation.

The original 3-story Medical Building was located on a dirt road at the eastern extremity of the University campus, a 40-acre pasture . . . [Full Text of this Article]