The College of Medicine Building (

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: ''Bangunan Maktab Perubatan'';

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: 医药学院大厦) is a historic building in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

, located within the grounds of the

Singapore General Hospital Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is an academic health science centre and tertiary referral hospital in Singapore. It is located next to the Bukit Merah and Chinatown districts of the Central Region, close to the Outram Community Hospital (OCH ...

Outram Park Outram is a planning area located within the Central Area of the Central Region of Singapore. The area is bordered by these planning areas: Singapore River to the north, the Downtown Core to the east and south, and Bukit Merah to the west. ...

, within the Bukit Merah Planning Area near Singapore's

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

. Its name comes from its former function as the location for the

King Edward VII College of Medicine King Edward VII Medical College (KEMC) was a medical school from 1905 to 1949 in Singapore, the first one in what was then Malaya. It was officially named King Edward VII Medical College in 1921 and subsequently became the Faculty of Medicine, U ...

, the first school of medicine in

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(Present day:

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and

References

*National Heritage Board (2002), ''Singapore's 100 Historic Places'', Archipelago Press, *Norman Edwards, Peter Keys (1996), ''Singapore - A Guide to Buildings, Streets, Places'', Times Books International, *Edwin Lee (1990), ''Historic Buildings of Singapore'', Preservation of Monuments Board, *Teo ES
"The history of the College of Medicine and Tan Teck Guan Buildings"
''Annals of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore''. 2005 Jul;34(6):61C-71C.

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{{Authority control Landmarks in Singapore National monuments of Singapore School buildings completed in 1926 Bukit Merah Buildings and structures in Central Region, Singapore 1926 establishments in British Malaya