Temple University School of Medicine Firsts • First
Pennsylvania co-educational medical college to award MD to women in 1906
• First
to introduce spinal anesthesia in the U.S.
• First
image amplifier used in fluoroscopy
• First
rehabilitation department in the nation
• First
clinic for psychosomatic medicine in the nation
• First
biplane stereoscopic X-ray machine
• First
television stereoscopic fluoroscope
• First
university-based sports medicine center
• First
heart transplant in the Philadelphia area
• First
combined heart and kidney transplant in the region