A tidbit in medical history; on August 14, 1767, the King’s College Medical School in New York awarded the first MD degree in the U.S. Well, I guess it wasn’t the United States just yet–still just an extension of the motherland Great Britain.

So what mysterious school is this, as we no longer have any medical school’s with that name. Well, right after the Revolutionary War, in 1784, the name was changed its name to Columbia University. I guess they didn’t want any connection of old King George. Columbia has a nice “new world” sound to it, and that very same medical school is in operation today–albeit a bit more modernized than in 1767.