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The Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University (كلية الطب البشري في جامعة دمشق), founded in 1903, was the first university college established in Syria.The school moved to Beirut temporarily during World War I. At one point later it was called the Arab Medical Institute.HistoryThe College of Medicine is the centre of the University of Damascus. It was founded in 1903 when the medical school opened up branches in medicine and pharmacy following the Ottomans.The medical school moved from Damascus to Beirut in 1915 and used the Jesuit Medical College as its headquarters during the First World War. It reopened in Damascus after the armistice of 1918 and the withdrawal of the Ottomans from Syria and Lebanon. During the era of Arab government it was called the Arab Medical Institute. The use of Arabic as the medium of instruction was in response to the policy of colonization, which had tried to impose French. The founders were convinced that their students would absorb, reflect, and express themselves better in their native language.For both the civilian and the military hospitals of the city of Damascus Medical Institute, Dr. Reza Said was elected chairman in 1920. In 1924 the publication of the Medical Journal of the Arab Institute began.From its earliest days the Institute saw the need not just to train Syrians, but also many young men and women from across the Arab world. On average, half of the students were non-Syrian. In the 1950s over half the doctors in the Mashreq were graduates of the institute.The university widened its remit after the evacuation of the French in 1946. The Institute began faculties of medicine. It had all the lecture halls and laboratories necessary for teaching. The college issued a doctor of medicine, bachelor of pharmacy, doctor of dental medicine and a certificate in nursing and midwifery in obstetrics. Successive reforms after 1946 have expanded the school and increased the number of students considerably. An act promulgated in 1958 during the unity of Egypt and Syria amended the Syrian name to the University of Damascus.
