It provided free education for medical students who were only allowed to practice in the Dutch West Indies, and had to work as a District doctor for six years.

In the 1870s, the British government issued a complaint about the morality rate among indentured labourers who had been imported from India.

[2] At the time, Herman Benjamins was director of the Department of Education, and responsible for the development of the Geneeskundige School.

[3] In 1880, a motion of Coenraad van Lier to found a medical school passed in the Colonial Estates, however the States General of the Netherlands removed the plan from the budget.

It offered free education in the medical profession, however it was not a university, therefore, graduates were only allowed to practise medicine in the Dutch West Indies (Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles).