During the Lecturer phase at Tulane, physicians pushed to obtain additional instruction following graduation. In 1858, a group of practitioners formed the New Orleans Polyclinic, the third medical post-graduate school in the United States. By 1906 the Polyclinic had become the Post-Graduate Medical Department of the College of Medicine of the Tulane University. This was the beginning of formal residency training at the Tulane Medical School.
The first Professor of Ophthalmology was one of the city's leading ophthalmologists, Dr. Henry Dickson Bruns (1859-1933). This portrait is circa 1915.