Reconstruction(1944-1963)

year affairs
1944

Keio Professional Medical Unit established in response to critical shortage of Army physicians, producing 463 Army medics by 1951.

醫学徒報國隊

1945 About sixty percent of campus buildings lost in an air raid on May 24.
1945 The Pacific War ends on August 15.
1946

Basic medicine classes move to the Musashino branch campus. (Until spring 1956)

武蔵野分校

1948

Main Hospital Building completed. It is a two-story building with 153 beds, and one of the largest postwar wooden structures in Japan.

病院本館玄関

病院本館受付

1950

Dr. C.N.H. Long invited from Yale University, and a clinical pathological conference held.

1950 Electron Microscope Laboratory established.
1950

Nursing School established.

医学部附属厚生女子学院卒業式

1952

The School of Medicine approved under the new educational system. The Keio Journal of Medicine launched.

病院本館(木造)を臨む医学部全景

1952 Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato Centennial
First Kitasato Prize awarded by Sanshikai.
1955 Postwar education system established. The new system offers a 2-year premedical course and a 4-year specialized course.
1956 Doctoral program at the Graduate School of Medicine established.
1958 Keio University Centennial Ceremony held.
1961 Second Lecture Hall for Basic Medicine completed thanks to donations from the China Medical Board of New York.
1963 Hospital Central Wing completed.