1905
The Straits Settlement and Federated Malay States Government Medical School is born at Sepoy Lines, offering a full-time five-year course to train doctors in medicine, surgery and midwifery.
1910
The pioneering class - consisting of seven young men - graduates from the Medical School with a Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (LMS).
1911
The Tan Teck Guan Building, housing a lecture theatre, a library and a museum, opens.
1912
Professorial chairs begin to be established; the first is the chair of physiology.
1913
The School changes its name to King Edward VII Medical School, in recognition of an endowment by the King Edward VII Memorial Foundation.
1921
Another change in name takes place; the Medical School is renamed King Edward VII College of Medicine to reflect more accurately its status as an institution that provides tertiary-level education.
1923
The medical course is extended by a year to become a six-year programme.
1926
The three-storey College Building, boasting a Doric Colonnade on the principal facade, opens.
1929
The Department of Dentistry admits seven students for its four-year course.
1939
The McLean Commission on Higher Education proposes.
1942
The College of Medicine stops operating as a medical school as the Japanese begin their three and half years of Occupation in Singapore.
1943
The Japanese Military Administration establishes the Marei Ika Daigaku or Syonan Medical College in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. A year later, this College is moved to Malacca, where it functions until the end of the Occupation.
1946
The Medical College reopens and some 200 pre-war students return to continue their medical education.
1948
The Carr-Saunders Commission proposes the formation of a university rather than a university college.
1949
The University of Malaya is formed through the amalgamation of the King Edward VII College of Medicine and Raffles College, and the College of Medicine assumes the identity of a university faculty - the Faculty of Medicine.
1950
The University of Malaya confers its first Degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery on 17 graduands.
1952
The construction of a two-storey building behind the Tan Teck Guan Building gives room for more classrooms and laboratories.
1953
The pre-registration or housemanship year is introduced.
1957
The Department of Pharmacy at the University of Malaya in Singapore offers its first three-year degree course.
1959
The University of Malaya begins to function as two autonomous divisions, with one located in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur. The Faculty of Medicine operates as the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaya in Singapore.
1961
The Committee on Postgraduate Medical Studies is set up.
1962
The Singapore Division becomes a fully-fledged university as the University of Singapore. The Kuala Lumpur Division, now also a national university, keeps the name of University of Malaya.
1969
The School of Postgraduate Medical Studies is formed.
1973
A Medical Faculty Planning Unit is tasked to oversee the construction of the Medical Faculty and its teaching hospital at Kent Ridge.
1980
The University of Singapore merges with the Nanyang University to form the National University of Singapore at Kent Ridge.
1983
The Faculty of Medicine begins its move from Sepoy Lines to Kent Ridge. The entire Faculty of Medicine finds a home in the new campus by 1987.
The Preservation of Monuments Board recommends that the College of Medicine Building be preserved for posterity.
1991
The Medical Faculty undertakes a much-needed review of its curriculum, leading to the setting up of new departments and the reorganisation of the five-year medical course into three distinct blocks.
1997
A further revision of the medical curriculum takes place, with problem-based learning introduced in 1999.
2002
In line with developments in the life sciences, the Faculty of Medicine broadens its entry criteria so that more students will be eligible to study medicine.
2005
The faculty of Medicine celebrates its centennial.
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