Claim: It was at the first meeting of the Board of Visitors the year the University of Virginia was founded in 1918, when a School of Medicine was authorized and the graduate medical school of the college is now the tenth al oldest medical school in the United States, and is consistently ranked among the top medical schools by U.S. News and World Report, and as of 2020, is ranked sixth in the nation in primary care.
Evidence: January 25, 1819; 201 years ago (January 25, 1819)