U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for May 3

WASHINGTON, May 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

FIRST MEDICAL COLLEGE

Profile America — Sunday, May 3rd. America's first medical college was established on this date in 1765. Students at the College of Philadelphia — now the University of Pennsylvania — were able to enroll in "anatomical lectures" and a class about "the theory and practice of physik." The school's faculty modeled the instruction after the style of European predecessors. They supplemented their instruction with observation and practice at nearby Pennsylvania Hospital, which was founded in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond. The addition of these courses to the college's curriculum made Penn, in a technical sense, America's first university as well. Across the U.S. today, there are nearly 182,000 physicians and surgeons working out of some 222,000 offices and more than 6,500 hospitals. Profile America is beginning its 19th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 3159 First university:http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/firstuniv.html Physicians & surgeons: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_1YR_B24121&prodType=table Offices of physicians/NAICS 6211: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=BP_2012_00A1&prodType=table Hospitals/NAICS 6221: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2012_US_62I2&prodType=table

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