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 The
first initiative to establish a medical school in Singapore was
an unsuccessful attempt to set up a training course for assistant
surgeons in 1889. On 3 July 1905, following a public appeal for
funds, the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government
Medical School was established. In 1912, the name of the school
was changed to King Edward VII Medical School, in recognition of
a gift of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund. In 1916,
its Licence in Medicine and Surgery was recognised by the General
Medical Council of Great Britain. Substantial academic expansion
took place and the name was further changed to the King Edward VII
College of Medicine in 1921 to reflect its status as an academic
insitution of university status.
The
College was still developing when the Japanese occupation of Malay
in 1942 brought its work to a halt. During their occupation the
Japanese used the College buildings as a serological institute,
but at the end of the war the buildings were rapidly returned to
their former use and the College re-opened early in 1946. Three
years later, in October 1949, the College amalgamated with Raffles
College to form the University of Malaya. It then became the Faculty
of Medicine. The subsequent history of the Faculty of Medicine was
inseparable linked with the expansion and development of the University.
On
1 January 1962, the University of Singapore was founded as a separate
university from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. On 8 August
1980, the University of Singapore was merged with the Nanyang University
to form the National University of Singapore (NUS).The Department
of Pharmacology was first established in 1957 as a sub-department
within the Department of Physiology. In 1959, a new independent
Department of Pharmacology was set up and in 1962, Professor R C
Y Lin was appointed the first professor of pharmacology.
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