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History: Organized 1946; incorporated in 

 New York. Sections : Connecticut ; Mary- 

 land; Massachusetts; Michigan; Missouri; 

 Montreal ; New Jersey ; New York ; Pennsyl- 

 vania; South Carolina; Texas. 



Purpose: To promote study and dissemination 

 of knowledge of cause, prevention, and control 

 of diseases of the teeth, their supporting struc- 

 tures, and adnexa and of related subjects; to 

 promote better scientific understanding between 

 fields of medicine and dentistry. , 



Membership: Active members, 905, members 

 of dental profession who have been graduated 

 from college for at least five years and who are 

 members of representative national societies 

 and qualified by special interest or accomplish- 

 ment in field of dental medicine; Associate 

 members, 53, from allied professions ; Honorary 

 members, 22, nonmembers of outstanding service 

 in field of dental medicine. Total membership 

 980. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Endowment and Re- 

 search Fund, for dento-medical research 

 projects. 



Publications: Journal of Dental Medicine, 

 quarterly, current volume: 15, $5. Editor: I. 

 Yudkofif. 



38. American Academy of Dermatology and 

 Syphilology. First National Bank Building, 

 Rochester, Minn. President: Francis W. 

 Lynch, 350 St. Peter Street, St. Paul 2, Minn. 

 Term expires December 1960. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Robert R. Kierland, Mayo Clinic, 

 Rochester, Minn. Term expires December 

 1962. 



History: Organized 1936. 



Purpose: Education in dermatology and 

 syphilology. 



Membership: Fellows, 1,637, certified by 

 American Board of Dermatology and Syphil- 

 ology; Associates, 384, three years full-time 

 training in dermatology and syphilology : 

 AfBliates, 61, three years part-time in derma- 

 tology and syphilology, public health, education, 

 or research in connection with this specialty ; 

 Non-resident Fellows, 46, approximately equiva- 

 lent requirements to those for certification by 

 the Board; Special, 49, retired, in the Armed 

 Forces, etc. Total membership 2,177. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Earl D. Osborne Fel- 

 lowship in dermal pathology at the Armed 

 Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, 

 D. C. 



39. American Academy of General Practice. 



Volker Boulevard at Brookside Street, 



Kansas City 12, Mo. President: John G. 

 Walsh, 2901 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, 

 Calif. Term expires April 1961. Executive 

 Director: Mac F. Cahal. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized June 1947. Incorporated 

 in Illinois, November 1947. Commissions : 

 Education ; Hospitals ; Legislation and Public 

 Policy ; Membership. Committees : Finance ; 

 Publication; Insurance; Scientific Assembly; 

 Constitution and By-Laws ; Mental Health ; 

 Industrial Health; Rural Health; National 

 Defense ; Voluntary Prepaid Medical Care. 



Purpose: To promote and maintain high 

 standards of general practice of medicine and 

 surgery ; to encourage and assist young men 

 and women in preparing, qualifying, and estab- 

 lishing themselves in general practice ; to pre- 

 serve the right of the general practitioner to 

 engage in medical and surgical procedures for 

 which he is qualified by training and experience ; 

 to assist in providing postgraduate study courses 

 for general practitioners, and to encourage and 

 assist practicing physicians and surgeons in par- 

 ticipating in such training ; to promote the sci- 

 ence and art of medicine and surgery and the 

 betterment of public health, and to preserve for 

 the patient the right of free choice of physician. 



Membership: Eligibility: Active members 

 must be physicians engaged in the general prac- 

 tice of medicine and surgery. A general practi- 

 tioner is defined as one who does not limit him- 

 self to one field of medicine or surgery. He must 

 have graduated from a medical school approved 

 by the American Medical Association. He must 

 be duly licensed to practice in the state or 

 province in which he practices, and must be a 

 member of the constituent state or provincial 

 medical society of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation or Canadian Medical Association of the 

 state, territory, or province in which he prac- 

 tices, or hold membership in the recognized 

 medical society of the country of his residence. 

 A candidate for membership who was graduated 

 from medical school after January 1, 1950, must 

 have had at least one year of rotating internship 

 at a hospital approved for internship training by 

 the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals 

 of the American Medical Association. In addi- 

 tion, he must have completed one of the follow- 

 ing : two years of graduate training acceptable 

 to and approved by the Commission on Educa- 

 tion, one year of such training followed by 

 two years of general practice, or three years of 

 general practice. Total membership 25,842. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: GP, monthly, current volume: 

 21, $10, members $5. Managing Editor: Walter 

 H. Kemp. 



