Korean J Med Hist.  1997 Jul;6(1):83-88.

History on the Lecture of History of Medicine at Kyungpook National University School of Medicine

• Kim JS
• Lee WK
• SUH JS
• SONG KE
• Sohn TJ

Abstract

This paper refers to the History on the Lecture of History of Medicine at Kyungpook National University School of Medicine since 1961 when assistant professor KIM Jyung-Myung, MD of Department of Clinical Pathology started this lecture of history of medicine to the freshman class to improve the medical morality among professors, students and physicians after the nation-wide 4 19 revolution against dictatorial government. At that time an immoral faculty and several government patronized faculties were expulsed by students on the above revolution. On the lecture dictation was used for the first time and merged to prints(KIM Jay-Sik, MD and KIM Jyung-Myung, MD), followed by published textbook(1979, revised on 1986) of Professor KIM Jyung-Myung. However our department faculties haven't entered the Korean Society for the History of Medicine until this time because of short of manpower and lack of the independent department(Department of History of Medicine). We are going to set up the Department at our Medical School in 1998 and to study about the improvement of medical education through the lecture of the history of medicine on the comparison of the current oriental and western medicine, and the unification of Korean medical system(modern medicine and Chinese medicine).

Keyword

Lecture of History of Medicine; Medical Morality; Unification of Medical System; Department of History of Medicine