Reconstruction(1944-1963)
year | affairs |
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1944 |
Keio Professional Medical Unit established in response to critical shortage of Army physicians, producing 463 Army medics by 1951.
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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)
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1948 |
Main Hospital Building completed. It is a two-story building with 153 beds, and one of the largest postwar wooden structures in Japan.
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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.
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1952 |
The School of Medicine approved under the new educational system. The Keio Journal of Medicine launched.
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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. |