POLA STOLJEĆA MEDICINSKOG FAKULTETA SVEUČILIŠTA U RIJECI

Abstract

This inspired lecture looks back on the background and the course of preparations for the opening of the School of Medicine in Rijeka, including the first five years of teaching. The initiative came from V. Finderle’s, and was supported by A. Štampar, A. Šercer, and the City of Rijeka administration. On 21 November 1955, these efforts were crowned by the inauguration of the fifth-year medical study programme here in Rijeka. The lecture moves on to the early recollections of major events, of the first dean S. Novak and the growing number of students and assistants at such a rate that by the school year 1959/60 there were enough students – 413 - to fill up the entire five-year general medicine curriculum.