1900 - First Graduating Class and Staff

Shown: Medical Department, first graduation class and staff, 1900. A medical college degree was not required of physicians in Texas in the 1880s, and many doctors in that era had limited formal medical education. Dr. Charles Rosser had a passion for the advancement of medical education, and by 1900, he was determined that Dallas should have a medical school. The University of Dallas Medical Department opened on November 19, 1900.