Milestones of the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore 1905-1948

1905	The Straits Settlement and Federated Malay States Government Medical School was established at Sepoy Lines in Singapore. It offered a full-time 5-year medical course to train doctors in medicine, surgery and midwifery.
1910	The pioneering class of 7 male doctors graduated from the Medical School with a Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (LMS).
1911	The Tan Teck Guan Building opened. It housed a lecture theatre, a library and a museum.
1912	The first Professorial Chair of Physiology was established at the Medical School.
1913	The Medical School was renamed King Edward VII Medical School when it received an endowment by the King Edward VII Memorial Foundation.
1913	-1917 WW1
1916	The General Medical Council (GMC) of Great Britain recognizes the LMS and medical graduates were registered in the British Medical Register.
1917	Rumah Sakit Daerah was established in Kuala Krai, Kelantan.
1920	The London School of Tropical Medicine and Hospital for Tropical Diseases moved to Endsleigh Gardens in central London.
1921	The Athlone Committee created and named the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
1921	The Medical School in Singapore was renamed King Edward VII College of Medicine as it offered tertiary education.
1923	The KE VII medical course became a 6-year course.
1924	The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) was made a Royal Charter
1926	The 3-storey College Building with Doric columns opens.
1927	The Dispensary was established in Kota Bharu, Kelantan by Dr Ali Othman Merican & Shaik Hussein Othman Merican (father of veteran athlete Tamin Merican)
1929	/1930 – 7 dental students were accepted by the Department of Dentistry for a 4-year course.
1930	Rumah Sakit Umum was established in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
1930	The Great Depression in USA.
1939	The McLean Commission on Higher Education proposed the merger of the Medical College with the Raffles College of Arts and Sciences into a university college.
1941	-1945 WW2 (The Japanese Occupation in Malaya)
1942	College of Medicine ceased operation.
1943	The Japanese Military Administration established the Marei Ika Daigaku or Syonan Medical College at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
1944	Syonan Medical College was shifted to Malacca General Hospital and it ended at the end of WW2. The Japanese used Maktab Perguruan Perempuan Melayu Melaka as their HQ.
1945	WW2 ended; Formation of Malayan Union; British Reoccupation. The Malays opposed the Malayan Union.
1946	College of Medicine reopened in the postwar period and ~200 students resumed medical studies at KE VII.
1948	The Carr-Saunders Commission proposed the formation of a university.
1948	GPMS was formed at KE VII, Singapore.

Citation: Milestones of KE VII, The Early Malay Doctors, Faridah Abdul Rashid, 2011 online blog
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