Historical overview of Jesuit (and other Catholic and religiously affiliated) health sciences schools
  

United States and Canada

Jesuit / Catholic

Jesuit

1. St. Louis University (St. Louis, MI; established in 1818; closed in 1826; reopened under Jesuit control in 1829)
   • 1835 medical department
   • 1842 initiated instruction
   • 1855 separated from the university at request of med school faculty; in 1891 merged with Washington U
   • 1903 incorporation of Beaumont and Sims Medical Colleges
2. Georgetown University (Washington DC)
   • 1849 proposal by 4 local physicians to establish medical department
   • 1851 medical department begins classes (2 courses of 4 months each, taught mostly at night)
   • 1876 primarily day school
   • 1879 expansion to 3 year medical curriculum
   • 1893 expansion to 4 year medical curriculum
   • 1894 refusal to move medical school to Catholic U. notwithstanding papal request
   • 1895 no more night classes
3. Creighton University (Omaha, NE; founded 1878)
   • 1892 establishment of medical school
   • 1896 expansion to 4 year medical curriculum
4. Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, IL; founded 1870)
   • 1909 affiliated with Illinois Medical School
   • 1910 affiliated with Bennet School of Medicine
   • 1917 purchase of Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery and incorporation of all three colleges
5. Marquette (Milwaukee, Wisconsin; founded 1864)
   • 1907 affiliation with Milwaukee Medical College
   • 1913 Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons purchased by Marquette and Milwaukee Medical College is leased for 10years
   • 1918 Medical school becomes separately governed organization, though consistent with ethical and educational principles of Marquette U and ultimately under its president
   • 1967 Marquette School of Medicine splits off, renamed in 1970 as the Medical College of Wisconsin.
6. Fordham (New York, NY; founded 1841; taken over by Jesuits in 1845)
   • 1905 establishment medical school
   • 1921 closure medical school

    Catholic Non-Jesuit

1. New York Medical College (founded 1860; not strictly catholic but operating "in the catholic tradition" since 1986 through a liaison with the Archdiocese of New York; webpage makes only mention of catholicity in 2 paragraphs)
2. Niagara (Niagara Falls, NY; founded in 1856)
   • 1898 medical department opened
   • 1899 or 1900 closing medical department
3. Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry  
   • 1954 opened medical school (legally separate from Seton College, NJ: founded in 1856; became university in 1955)
   • 1965 college is purchased by the state from the Newark Archdiocese and becomes the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry (NJCMD).

 

Dental Schools

Jesuit

1. Creighton University
   • 1905 Dental School is established
   • 1998  Dental hygiene program is initiated (in conjunction with Iowa Western Community College)
2. Marquette University
   • 1894 Dental Department of the Milwaukee Medical College (MMC) established
   • 1907 Affiliation of Marquette College with MMC, resulting in Marquette University. Dental school now is part of a Jesuit university. 
   • 1913 Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons (P & S), which had a dental department since 1899, also merges with Marquette University. 
3. Detroit-Mercy (Detroit, MI; University of Detroit founded in 1877)
   • 1932 Dental School is established
   • 1950 Dental Hygiene program is added
   • 1990 University of Detroit merges with Mercy College
4. St. Louis University
   •  1908 established
   • 1970 school closes. A postgraduate program servives: Center for Advanced Dental Education
5. Georgetown University
   • 1901 established as separate school
   • 1990 closed
6. Loyola University Chicago
   • 1883 established
   • 1993 closed
7. Loyola University of New Orleans
   • 1914 established
   • 1970 closed

   Catholic Non-Jesuit

   1. Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry  
      • 1954 opened medical school (legally separate from Seton College, NJ: founded in 1856; became university in 1955)
      • 1965 college is purchased by the state from the Newark Archdiocese and becomes the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry (NJCMD).

    

1. Creighton University
   • 1905 established (purchased the Omaha School of Pharmacy which had been established in 1901)
2. Marquette University
   • 1907 Affiliation with Milwaukee Medical College, which has a College of Pharmacy
   • 1918 closed
   • 1924 Proposal to reopen College of Pharmacy miscarries
3. Fordham University
   • 1911 established
   • 1971 closed
4. Loyola University of Chicago
   • 1911 established (through affiliation with the Central States School of Pharmacy)
   • 1917 Central States School of Pharmacy splits off again
5. Loyola University of New Orleans
   • 1913 established
   • 1965 closed

Fordham University

• 1911 established
• 1971 closed

1. Loyola University of Chicago
   • 1911 established (through affiliation with the Central States School of Pharmacy)
   • 1917 Central States School of Pharmacy splits off again
2. Loyola University of New Orleans
   • 1913 established
   • 1965 closed

   Catholic Non-Jesuit

   1. Xavier University of Louisiana (Xavier University of Louisiana is the only US based historically Black Catholic university)
      • 1927 established
   2. St. Johns University (School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions) (Vincentian). 
      • ???? established
   3. Duquesne University (Congregation of the Holy Spirit)
      • 1925 established
   4. Notre Dame  (Holy Cross)
      • 1898 established
      • 1939 closed
   5. St. Mary's College - Notre Dame (Holy Cross)
      • ???? established
      • ???? closed

1. Georgetown University
   • 1903 established
2. Creighton University
   • 1928 established
3. St. Louis University
   • 1928 established
4. Loyola University of Chicago
   • 1935 established
5. Seattle University
   • 1935 established
6. Marquette University
   • 1907 Affiliation with Milwaukee Medical College, which has a College of  Nursing, also called Trinity Hospital School for Nurses
   • 1924 Central Training School of Nursing established (but taught by doctors from medical school)
   • 1936 College of Nursing established
7. Boston College
   • 1947 established
8. Regis University
   • 1948 established
9. University of San Francisco
   • 1948 established
10. Fairfield University
    • 1970 established
11. Wheeling Jesuit University
    • 1976 established
12. Gonzaga University
    • 1978 established
13. Loyola New Orleans
    • 1979 established
14. Rockhurst University
    • 1980 established
15. Xavier University 
    • 1980 established
16. University of Scranton
    • 1981 established
17. University of Detroit Mercy
    • 1982 established
18. St. Peters College
    • 1997 established (MSN program; undergraduate may be older)

1. Marquette university
   • ??? established (mid-twenties; first in the nation)
   • ??? closed

   Non-Catholic Religiously Affiliated

1. Loma Linda University Medical Center (Seventh Day Adventists)
2. Emory University (Methodist)
3. Mercer University (Baptist) (mission document)
4. Wake Forest University (Baptist)
5. Brigham Young University School of Nursing (Mormon)
6. Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Jewish)
7. Mount Sinai Medical School  (Jewish)

Europe

AUSTRIA
University of Graz, founded 1585
The Jesuits refused to establish a faculties of medicine and law
(historical fragment taken from the bulletin of the "Karl-Franzens-Universität 1994/95")

FRANCE
Pont-a-Mousson
First Jesuit affiliated medical school established in late 16th century, becoming operational in early 17th century 
(fragment taken from: http://www.sabuco.org/iwoman.html)
Charles le Pois (Carolus Piso)(1563-1633), born in Nancy, France, was made Dean of the newly-established Faculty of Medicine of Pont à Mousson, a Jesuit University, in 1598. In a revolutionary 1618 treatise on medicine Choix d'observations, he stated -citing Sabuco- that the condition of hysteria had nothing to do with the uterus and could occur in men as well as women, A Latin edition of his work was published in 1639 in Germany as Sive observationes medicae C. Pisonis ... (Hamburg : Hertel) and again as Selectiorum Observationum et consiliorum... in 1714 (Lugduni Batavorum: Boutestein & Langerak).

Asia/Latin America/Africa/Pacific

LEBANON
L'Université Saint-Joseph / St. Joseph University, Beirut

• Medicine founded in 1883
• Nursing (founded as part of the medical school in 1943; became a school in 1949)
• Dentistry
• Pharmacy