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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, Medical Center, Research Materials, A&M 3164, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

The West Virginia University School of Medicine began as two-year school in 1912. In 1960, the school opened University Hospital and a four-year medical program. The school was known as the Medical Center until 1988, when it was renamed the Health Sciences Center. Since then the school has undergone numerous changes. Ruby Memorial Hospital opened in 1988, replacing University Hospital. In 1993, the Health Sciences Center was named for U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd. The center includes the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, the School of Nursing, and the School of Pharmacy.

Scope and Contents

Research materials regarding the history of the West Virginia University Medical Center (now the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center) compiled between 1960 and 1989 by Dolores A. Fleming, Jeanne Grimm, and Patricia Schumann, authors of Generation of Growth: A Contemporary View of the West Virginia School of Medicine , published in 1990. Materials include subject files related to administration, continuing education, curriculum, endowments, financing, University Hospital, medical corporation, the nursing school, research, residency programs, special conferences, faculty, students, technology, and departments within the center. Also includes two boxes of photographs and negatives chiefly from the 1960s and 1970s from the former office of the Medical Center News and Information Service and from various publications of the hospital and school.