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This year the Fiji School of Medicine celebrates 125 years … From humble beginnings in 1885, the institution has had the vision to be the leading health workforce academic education and research institution in Fiji and the Pacific Region. 
 
We are proud to have been the guardians of life and health in our community and the nation and hope to carry this legacy on into the next century.
 
The outbreak of communicable diseases like measles, small pox and cholera in Fiji in the early 19th Century brought to the spot light the need for western medicine in Pacific Island Countries.
Through this ambition, the Suva Medical School was borne in 1885. A small group of Fijian men started their general medicine training under the guidance of Dr. S.M Lambert at the Colonial Hospital.
 
The three [3] Fijian gentlemen completed the 3 year course to become the first graduating class of the Suva Medical School in 1888. They were licensed to practice medicine as Native Practitioners [NP].
 
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125 YEARS YOUNG – WHAT AN AMAZING JOURNEY.

Professor Ian ROUSE, Dean, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Fiji National University. Saturday 16th October, 2010   Nisa Bula Vinaka, Namaste and Good Evening to all of you. A special welcome to the First Lady of Fiji, Adi Koila Nailaticau, to our special guests, to members of the diplomatic corps, to friends and supporters of FSM …...

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125TH ANNIVESARY CELEBRATION OF THE FIJI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (FSM) BY ALUMNI OF FSM IN AMERICAN SAMOA

The 125th Anniversary Celebration of FSM in American Samoa was carried out on the 24th and 25th of September, 2010. We started with a walkathon on Friday afternoon, 24th September, at 3:00p.m. We walked from the LBJ hospital to Utulei beach, a distance of 1.5 miles. This walkathon was also part of our fund raising activity. There were about 200 people in the march, including FSM alumni, families, hospital workers and friends. Everyone was wearing a special t-shirt of the celebration. Some...

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125 Nadi FSM Celebration

Celebrating its 125th anniversary, the Fiji School of Medicine Alumni looks back at its success stories and former students that have made a name for themselves in the medical field. A special occasion was held in Nadi Hospital yesterday in recognition of one such success story.

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QUEEN CONGRATULATES FSM

  Message from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second on the occasion of the Fiji School of Medicine’s 125th Anniversary.   “As you celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Fiji School of Medicine, I have much pleasure in sending my warmest congratulations and best wishes for the future.   Elizabeth R.”                [To be delivered by  the British High Commissioner...

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FSMed CELEBRATES 125TH ANNIVERSARY

  Medical Alumni, friends,  family and honoured guests were hosted to a Black Tie Ball at the Borron House last Saturday [16/10] as part of the finale event for the Fiji School of Medicine’s 125th Anniversary Celebrations. Invited guests included members of the diplomatic corps, donors and long serving medical personnel from Fiji and abroad like Dr. Konusi, Dr. Wainiqolo and Dr. Jagdish Maharaj to name a few.   A special highlight of the evening...

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PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

125th Anniversary Celebration Public Lecture Series This will take place every 2 weeks and will feature prominent FSMed graduates in a range of medical professions

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Excerpt from the Handbook of Fiji, L.G.Usher (editor), 1941 (pp.38-9): The old and new schools have altogether provided 229 graduates, 128 of whom are still serving in the various territories under the jurisdiction of His Excellency the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific as well as in Fiji. In 1940 there were fifty-one students in residence. There were 18 Fijians, 2 East Indians, 9 Western Samoans, 1 Eastern Samoan, 4 Tongans, 5 Gilbert and Ellice Islanders, 4 Solomon Islanders, 2 New Hebrideans, 1 Rotuman, 2 Nauruans, 2 Cook Islanders and 1 Niuean. ... The teaching staff comprises one whole time Medical Officer [Dr. Hoodless], who is Principal of the School, and fourteen honorary lecturers and teachers.
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Excerpt from Handbook of Fiji, G.K.Roth (editor), 1937 (p.48): In 1884 a native medical school was started at the Colonial Hospital, Suva, where a three years course of training was given to suitable Fijian youths selected after competitive examination. This institution was recently enlarged and the accommodation, formerly for sixteen, was increased so as to provide for forty students and in 1928 it became the Central Medical School, Fiji. Other Administrations in the Western Pacific co-operate with the Fiji Government in the capital and annual expenditure and the Rockefeller Foundation contributed to the capital cost of the buildings. 
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Excerpt from the The Colony of Fiji 1874-1929, A.A.Wright (editor), 1929 (p.48): With the assistance of £319,500 subscribed by the public for a War Memorial, the Colonial War Memorial Hospital was built, and completed at the end of 1923. This is controlled by the Government and there are two resident medical officers. The main buildings are ferro-concrete, and contain an out-patient department, administratior offices, ward accommodation for twenty-eight Europeans and eighty natives, kitchen, laundry, operating-room, X-Ray-room, clinical laboratory, nurses home, and lecture-room. The Native Medical School is attached to the hospital; there were twelve Fijian, three East Indian, five Samoan, and four Gilbert Island students in training in 1928.
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