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OSLER, Sir WILLIAM, physician, educator, medical philosopher, and historian; b. 12 July 1849 in Bond Head, Upper Canada, son of Featherstone Lake Osler*, a Church of England priest, and Ellen Free Pickton, both of Cornwall, England; m. 7 May 1892 Grace Linzee Revere, widow of Dr Samuel Weissell Gross, in Philadelphia, and they had two sons, one of whom survived infancy; d. 29 Dec. 1919 in Oxford, England.

William Osler was the eighth of nine children. His mother, Ellen, who survived past her 100th birthday, lived to see a son, Britton Bath Osler*, recognized as one of Canada’s most distinguished trial lawyers; another, Featherston Osler, a judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal; a third, Edmund Boyd Osler*, a highly successful financier; and a fourth, William, the best-known physician in the English-speaking world. William’s father had accepted an evangelical calling that took him from the Royal Navy to a challenging life battling God’s enemies in the sparsely populated bush north of Toronto in Upper Canada. The Oslers came to their new hom

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Moved medical education to the wards

Beloved educator and brilliant pathologist

One of the most influential early leaders in medicine, Sir William Osler was a mentor to thousands of students in his lifetime. His revolutionary approach to medical education and views on patient care were decades ahead of his time. Often referred to as the “Father of Modern Medicine,” his ideas forever transformed the practice of medicine and his principles and methods undoubtedly live on in today’s physicians. In addition to his ground-breaking training methods, Osler brought a sense of humanism to the practice of medicine. His warm, compassionate and eloquent manner of patient interaction, while remaining grounded in strong medical knowledge, transformed the idea of appropriate “bedside manner.”

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Introduced modern methods of teaching physiology and Canada’s first course is clinical microscopy

Completed over 1,000 autopsies

Brought students out of the lecture hall and into direct contact with patients

His idea of cl

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Sir William Osler and Internal Medicine

Sir William Osler (pronounced Ōsler) was a seminal figure in internal medicine. But who was he and why does he continue to be an important influence in internal medicine to this day?

William Osler lived from 1849 to 1918, and during his career he helped create the foundation of the discipline of internal medicine and was also instrumental in developing the system of clinical medical education that continues to be used today.

Born in Canada and receiving his medical degree from McGill University in Montreal, Osler subsequently traveled to Europe for additional training, a common practice by North American physicians at the time given the advanced state of medical knowledge and clinical education there compared to Canada and the United States. He studied in England (where he would eventually teach at Oxford and be conferred a baronetcy by King George V), but also attended clinics in Berlin and Vienna, studying under Rudolph Virchow and other great German clinician-teacher-investigators.

During this time, Osler was expo