Transcript of Oral History Interview with Dr. Murdina Desmond, p.1

Creator

Baylor College of Medicine
Lesley W. Brunet

Author Biographical Info

Baylor College of Medicine is a private medical school located in the Texas Medical Center. It opened in October 1900 in Dallas, Texas, by Albert Ferdinand Beddoe, A.B., M.D., and Samuel Hollingsworth Stout, A.B., M.D., as the University of Dallas Medical Department (there was no such school as the University of Dallas). In 1903 it joined with Baylor University and became the Baylor University College of Medicine.The College expanded both physically and by reputation through the 1950s and 1960s. In 1969, the College of Medicine separated from the University and officially changed its name to Baylor College of Medicine. In addition to the medical school, it has a Graduate School of Biomedical Science, the School of Allied Health Professions, and the National School of Tropical Medicine.

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Identifier

MS054-b1f2-02-01

Publication Date(s)

1992

Language

English

Description

A typed, 38 page transcript of an interview conducted by Lesley Williams Brunet with Dr. Desmond at the Archives and Oral History Office of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, on September 1, 1992, as part of the Baylor College of Medicine Oral History Project. See more at Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD Papers and its finding aid.

Copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Comments

Dr. Desmond donated the items in the collection in 1996. No accruals are expected for this collection.

Recommended Citation

Baylor College of Medicine and Brunet, Lesley W., "Transcript of Oral History Interview with Dr. Murdina Desmond, p.1" (1992). Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD Papers. 40.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/murdina_desmond/40