1861

Following placing all medical charities in NYC under the medical board of Bellevue Hospital, Bellevue Hospital opened  Bellevue Medical College.  In NYC, “Bellevue Hospital was of central importance in providing subjects for clinical study and lectures in surgical amphitheaters,” and Austin Flint exerted his greatest impact there (McGregor, 130; D. Smith, 146-147). In 1873, Bellevue was one of only nine American hospitals, out of 178 in the country, that offered organized clinical instruction on a regular basis (147).