Trinidad Pardo de Tavera was a Filipino scientist, educator, and scholar that engaged in the study and development a broad range of fields including linguistics, history, politics, and medicine in the Philippines. He studied medicine in the University of Paris in France, and was credited as the first Filipino to publish a medical article in an academic journal when he wrote La medicine a l'Ile de Luzon, Archipel des Philippine (The Practice of Medicine on the Island of Luzon, Philippine Archipelago), which was published in Journal de Medicine de Paris (1884, vol. VI, No. 2231). This publication was just one in a long, long list of important scholarly documents, theses, and studies that he worked on throughout his life. He was essential in the establishment of the UP College of Medicine. He and his Filipino physician peers formed an association called Colegio Medico-Farmaceu tico de Filipinas, which was able to convince the Philippine Commission to institute the first state medical school in 1905, the Philippine Medical School. In 1908, partly through his efforts, the University of the Philippines was established as a state university for his countrymen that would be free from clerical control. UP officially opened in 1909, and in 1910, the previously established Philippine Medical School became the UP College of Medicine
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