The Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran was officially established on 11 September 1957 through the bill Peraturan Pemerintah No.37/1957 (Lembaran Negara No. 9 Tahun 1957) on the establishment of Universitas Padjadjaran. The Faculty of Medicine was augurated along with three other faculties, the Faculties of Economics, Law, and Education. These early faculties were the begginning of Universitas Padjadjaran.
The faculty’s establishment originated from a pragmatic idea, to fulfil local and national need for health professionals. Then Minister of Health, dr. Lie Kiat Teng, was the one who started the idea in the 1957 Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) Conggress in Surabaya. Villa Isola (Bumi Siliwangi) was supposed to be the site of a new Faculty of Medicine, but this plan did not come through. When Rancabadak General Hospital was erecting three new buildings in its complex for the Internal Medicine and Pediatric Departments, new laboratories, and lecture halls, new hope arose for the establishment of a faculty of medicine in Bandung. However, hope faded away once again in the face of a Presidential cabinet change. In the new cabinet, dr. Lie Kat Teng no longer hold the position of Minister of Health.
On the initiative and drive of a number of prominent figures in West Java, a Foundation for the Establishment of Bandung Faculty of Medicine, its members were dr. H.A. Patah (chairman), Prof. Dr. Moch. Djuhana Wiradikarta (Vice Chairman), dr. Chasan Boesoirie (Secretary), dr. Djunjunan Setiakusumah, drg. R. Soeriasoemantri, R. H. Enuch (Mayor of Bandung), and dr. Mich. Kurdi.
The foundation members contacted Prof. Sarwono of the Ministry of Education and Culture. At the time, the foundation was confident in the possibility of establishing a new Faculty of Medicine due to the presence of the Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia (now ITB) who was offering assistance in the form of teaching staff. On October 1956, the Committee for the Establishment of a Bandung State Univeristy was established.
In the early years (1957-1960), there were 26 teaching staff and assistants, led by Dean Prof. R. Moch. Djoehana Wiradikarta (1957-1962), with 65 medical students on the first year and 199 medical students on the second year.
According to Rachman Maas, dr., SpR (former Director of Hasan Sadikin General Hospital in 1996-1999), the admission of medical students at that period was done in a theatre building, with no test at all. The students were selected on behalf of their high school certificates only.
The Director of Rancabadak Hospital, dr. Chasan Boesoirie, in his speech urged the early medical students to work their hardest to fulfil the hopes of the Faculty to producemedical doctors. In that particular speech, it was implied that the class of 1957 FMUP medical students were the pioneers for generations of doctors in Indonesia.
The atmosphere in the lecture halls were no different with a classroom. In the lecture halls, students spent more time writing down dictations from their lecturers without really grasping the subjects being taught. Lecturers often dictated from translated English textbooks, and some from German textbooks. Lectures generally took place without audiovisual aids. After writing down dictations, students continue with discussions.
Up to the 1960s, the lecture halls and laboratories of FMUP were spread out in different locations, namely in the Rancabadak Hospital (two twin buildings in the West side of present-time Hasan Sadikin Hospital were the early FMUP campus), a campus in Jl. Dago 48 (chemistry, physiology, and microbiology laboratories), Hall C in a campus on Jl. Dipati Ukur , Sekolah Pendidikan Guru Taman Kartini Campus on Jl. Van De Venter, and several locations in the Faculty of Engineering UI which became ITB in the later years. Lectures generaly started in the mornings to 13.00 in the day, followed by laboratory work in the afternoons between 15.00-16.00.
The teaching staff at that time came from all around the country, including from FKUI, and also some from outside the country. There were many teaching staff and faculty administrators who came FKUI and FK UGM, they were brought to Bandung and facilitated with housings by dr. Hasan Sadikin. FMUP students during that period had to study extra hard to be able to understand lectures in English by foreign teachers, these lectures were generally in the second and third year.
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