UNITED STATES 



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Purpose: To further the art and science of 

 medicine ; to promote interests common to 

 women physicians and the public ; to aid and 

 encourage premedical, medical, and postgraduate 

 medical students; to foster medical relief proj- 

 ects ; to cooperate with other organizations hav- 

 ing comparable interests. 



Membership: Limited to women physicians 

 and women medical students who hold the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Medicine from an accredited 

 medical school, citizens and residents of the 

 United States in good professional standing, or 

 students who are attending an accredited medi- 

 cal school in the United States. Women phy- 

 sicians who meet the requirements except that 

 of citizenship and United States residency may 

 be granted affiliate membership. Categories : 

 active, emeritus, associate, junior, affiliate, 

 memorial, and honorary. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Medical education 

 loans to women medical students who have com- 

 pleted successfully the first year of medical 

 school and who need financial assistance ; capital 

 amount involved, $63,000. Janet M. Glasgow 

 Memorial Fund, used for medical education of 

 women, $29,000. Scholastic Awards: $100 cash 

 to each woman who graduates in first place in 

 her class and a citation to each woman who 

 graduates in the upper 10% of her class. Eliza- 

 beth Blackwell Medal, given annually to a 

 woman physician who has rendered outstanding 

 professional service. Preceptorship program. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume: 15, available to members only. Editor: 

 Frieda Baumann. 



227. American Medical Writers* Association. 



209-224 W.C.U. Building, Quincy, 111. Presi- 

 dent: Theodore R. Van Dellen, 435 North 

 Michigan Avenue, Chicago 11, 111. Term ex- 

 pires September 30, 1961. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Harold Swanberg, 510 Maine 

 Street, Quincy, 111. Term expires September 

 30, 1960. 



History: Organized as the Mississippi Valley 

 Medical Editors' Association at Rock Island, 

 111., September 25, 1940, during the annual meet- 

 ing of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society; 

 reorganized and name changed to the Ameri- 

 can Medical Writers' Association at its 

 Springfield, 111. meeting, September 28, 1948. 

 A completely rewritten constitution was adopted 

 September 19, 1951 ; incorporated not-for-profit 

 in Illinois September 24, 1951. Became an 

 affiliated society of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science in 1952. 



Purpose: To bring into one association all 

 North Americans who are concerned with writ- 



ing, editing, publishing, or other means of com- 

 munication in medicine or allied sciences ; to 

 meet from time to time to discuss medical, scien- 

 tific, educational, and literary topics ; to help 

 maintain and advance high standards in com- 

 munications concerning medicine and allied sci- 

 ences ; to foster interchange of views of the 

 members so that they may attain such intelligent 

 unity and harmony in every phase of their labor 

 as will elevate and make effective the opinions 

 of the medical and allied professions in their 

 respective communities in relationship to the 

 public welfare. 



Membership : Active members, physicians who 

 have had two or more articles published in a 

 journal indexed in the Quarterly Cumulative 

 Index Medicus ; physicians and others who are 

 actively connected with the editorial or pub- 

 lishing staffs of medical, dental, or kindred 

 periodicals ; medical librarians and health edu- 

 cators ; personnel of hospitals, foundations, edu- 

 cational institutions, publishing and technical 

 companies, and allied organizations who are con- 

 cerned with writing, editing, publishing, or 

 other means of communication in medicine or 

 allied sciences ; must be members of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association or the Canadian Medi- 

 cal Association or constituent parts thereof, ex- 

 cept physicians of countries other than the 

 United States and Canada who shall be gradu- 

 ates of generally recognized medical colleges ; 

 those who are not physicians shall be graduates 

 of generally recognized colleges or universities, 

 or be similarly qualified by education, training, 

 and experience and be sponsored by two active 

 members or fellows of this Association. Asso- 

 ciate members, all other individuals concerned 

 with writing, editing, publishing, or other means 

 of communication in medicine or allied sciences, 

 who have been sponsored by two active members 

 or fellows and approved for associate member- 

 ship by the Executive Committee. Total mem- 

 bership about 1,350. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Endowment Fund to 

 perpetuate the Association, about $4,000. Medi- 

 cal Journalism Scholarship Fund, about $1,500. 

 Distinguished Service Award given annually to 

 a member who has made a distinguished con- 

 tribution to medical literature or rendered un- 

 usual service to the medical profession ; Honor 

 Award, given annually to a nonmember who has 

 made a distinguished contribution to medical 

 literature. Honor Awards for Distinguished 

 Service in Medical Journalism, given annually 

 to medical periodicals of the United States and 

 Canada. 



Publications : Quarterly Bulletin, current vol- 

 ume : 10, $2. Editor : Raymond C. Pogge, 

 Cincinnati 15, Ohio. 



