16th Century
In 1546, Henry VIII established the position of Regius Professor of Physic at Oxford, a role that remains to this day as the Regius Professor of Medicine.
Henry VIII © BBC History
New Statutes were drawn up at the University of Oxford in 1549, requiring for the first time that medical students had to see and perform dissections upon the human body; thus marking a new era of anatomical teaching at Oxford.
16th century dissection © Wellcome Trust
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