Army Medical School


The Army Medical School was founded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg. According to some, it was the world's first school of public health and preventive medicine. The AMS ultimately became the Army Medical Center, then the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

History

Sternberg created the Army Medical School by issuing "General Order 51" on June 24, 1893. The School was housed, along with the Army Medical Library in the building of the Army Medical Museum and Library at 7th Street and South B Street, SW, Washington, D.C.
In 1910, the AMS relocated to 721 13th Street, NW and in 1916 to 604 Louisiana Avenue.
In 1923, the "Army Medical Center" was created when the AMS became the "Medical Department Professional Service School" and the MDPSS moved into "Building #40" on the grounds of the Walter Reed General Hospital in northern Washington, D.C.
The historic edifice known as Building #40 was constructed at 14th and Dahlia Streets beginning in 1922 and reached completion in 1932. This facility consists of four "Pavilions":
  • The North or "Vedder Pavilion" ;
  • The South or "Craig Pavilion" who in the Philippines proved dengue to be a filterable agent ;
  • The East or "Sternberg Pavilion" ;
  • The West or "Siler Pavilion".
In 1947, the MDPSS became the "Army Medical Department Research and Graduate School", which in turn became the "Army Medical Service Graduate School" in 1950.
In September 1951, "General Order Number 8" combined the WRGH & AMC into the present-day Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Three years later, the research elements of this facility became the present-day Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

List of presidents and commandants

Buildings

  • Army Medical Museum and Library
  • Building 40

    Notable people associated with the AMS and AMC

Graduates:
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