RT Journal
A1 Holt RW, Evans ST
T1 HIstory and heritage of the department of surgery, georgetown university
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2012
FD December 1
VO 147
IS 12
SP 1074
OP 1076
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2012.2281
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2012.2281
AB 
On March 15, 1815, President James Madison signed a bill passed by the Congress that bestowed on Georgetown College the right to award “any degree in the faculties, arts, sciences and liberal professions.”2 In 1849, 4 local physicians petitioned the president of Georgetown College to found a Medical Department under this charter. Guided by the Jesuit tradition of cura personalis, care of the whole person, the Medical Department of Georgetown College opened in 1851.