[2] It was among the first medical colleges to admit both men and women but they attended separate sessions (fall term for women, spring term for men).
At the Arch Street home a dispensary was opened in 1860, and in 1862 a dental department was established.
[2] In 1853 the school awarded the Honorary Doctor of Medicine degree to Samuel Gregory who had founded Boston's New England Female Medical College five years earlier.
The Penn Medical University catalog for the year 1860 lists 27 female graduates including Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen[3][better source needed] and Dr. Hettie Kersey Painter.
[4] The chartered name of the institution was Penn Medical College but it was changed on January 14, 1854, by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions to Penn Medical University, before its first year had drawn to a close.