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David B. Pilcher, MD

Arch Surg. 2006;141:337-339.

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The University of Vermont (UVM) was chartered in 1791 in Burlington and started holding undergraduate courses in 1802, at which time there were 5 medical schools in the United States: the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia; 1765), Columbia University (New York, NY; 1767), Harvard University (Boston, Mass; 1782), Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH; 1798), and Transylvania University (Lexington, Ky; 1799). An MD degree was not considered essential, and most physicians trained by the apprentice method.

Such was the case in Burlington, where John Pomeroy taught many apprentices at the office and dissecting room in his private house (Figure 1). He was appointed as lecturer in chirurgery and physic at the fledgling UVM in 1804. One of his pupils was granted the first UVM degree in medicine in 1809, and Pomeroy simultaneously received an honorary MD degree even though he had never attended college or medical school.

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