Dartmouth Medical School Milestones
- 1797 Nathan Smith founds Dartmouth Medical School, the nation's 4th oldest
- 1838 Stethoscope introduced to US medical curriculum by DMS's poet-physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 1896 First clinical x-ray in America taken at Dartmouth
- 1955 Special-care unit established at Dartmouth, considered the nation's first ICU
- 1978 DMS immunologist discovers interleukin 2
- 1981 The first continuous infusion pump for pain management developed and implanted at DHMC
- 1983 Nation's first autologous bone marrow transplant performed at DHMC
- 1996 The first Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care published
- 2001 Micro RNAs discovered at Dartmouth
- 2005 Release of HPV vaccine proven effective by clinical trials at Dartmouth
"The talent of our medical school faculty,
students, and staff energizes our mission
to educate outstanding leaders committed
to discovery and innovation and to health
care that meets the needs and wants of
patients and society."
—Dr William Green, Dean of Dartmouth Medical School