History of Current Degree Programs
All Indiana University School of Medicine Health Professions Programs were formerly part of the IU School of Allied Health Sciences. On July 1, 2002, eight programs were moved back to the IU School of Medicine as part of a restructuring of the new IU School of Health and Human Sciences, which moved toward a graduate school model. One additional undergraduate program moved on January 1, 2004, to complete the restructuring of the undergraduate programs. A new certificate program was added in 2022 and a new bachelor's degree that split off from an existing program was added in 2023.
The former IU School of Allied Health Sciences was first established as a division in 1959 by action of the Trustees of Indiana University. In 1960, the trustees conferred upon the faculty of the IU School of Medicine the responsibility and authority to grant the Bachelor of Science degree to those students successfully completing the prescribed curriculum in four allied health programs that had been offered long before the establishment of the division. Since that time, additional degree programs were approved and initiated. In June 2003, the IU School of Allied Health Sciences was renamed the IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
History of the IU School of Medicine
The Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) was founded in 1903, and its first students were enrolled on the Bloomington campus. It was the fourth medical school in the United States, after Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Western Reserve, to require two or more years of collegiate work for admission. The school awarded the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree to its first class of 25 in 1907. Following the union in 1908 of all medical schools in the state within Indiana University, the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, mandated, in 1909, that Indiana University assume the responsibility for medical education in the state.
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Updated: March 2024
