Background
Dr. Philip Sze was born at Soochow, Jiangsu province in 1888.
Dr. Philip Sze was born at Soochow, Jiangsu province in 1888.
Dr. Philip Sze studied at Shun-Cheng School in 1900 and at the St. John’s University from 1900 to 1904. He went to the United States in October 1904 with partial government support and prepared for college at Central High School, Washington from 1904 to 1908.
Dr. Sze studied medicine at George Washington University from 1910 and graduated from it with the degree of M. D. in 1914. He was awarded Ordranaux Prize for highest average in June 1913 and the George Washington University Surgery Prize for best written paper in June 1914.
Dr. Sze was an interne at George Washington University Hospital for one year during 1914-1915 and resident physician of the Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, D. C. during 1915-1916.
In May 1916 Dr. Sze returned to China and was at once appointed associate college physician of Tsinghua College. In January 1918 he resigned from the Tsinghua post to take up charge of the Central Hospital, Peking where his father Mr. Sze Sao-tseng was the managing director.
In the summer of 1919 he was appointed director of the Chinese Educational Mission to Washington, D. G. to succeed Dr. T. T. Wong who was murdered by a Chinese student. In May1921 he was appointed a Vice-consul in the Chinese Consuate General at San Francisco. In May 1922 he was awarded the Third Class Chiaho Decoration.