<p>armapan: "ACTUALLY, johns hopkins had the first program, which they cancelled 8 years later. Penn State/ Jefferson started their program (which was 5 years at the time) a year after johns hopkins began, and its still be goin. so PSU is the longest running program right now."</p>
<p>Just a minor correction, since you also corrected (not that it means a whole lot) but BU's program and Northwestern's were the first combined programs to be established in 1961
<a href="http://www.bu.edu/news/facts/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bu.edu/news/facts/</a>
<a href="http://www.milbank.org/reports/americanmedicalcolleges/0010medicalcolleges.html#northwestern%5B/url%5D">http://www.milbank.org/reports/americanmedicalcolleges/0010medicalcolleges.html#northwestern</a>
Penn State's-Jefferson program started in 1963
<a href="http://www.science.psu.edu/premed/6yrpremedprogram.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.science.psu.edu/premed/6yrpremedprogram.html</a></p>
<p>I know nothing of Hopkins' program.</p>