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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



of adequate training facilities ; to aid in evaluat- 

 ing residencies and fellowships under considera- 

 tion by the Council on Medical Education and 

 Hospitals of the American Medical Association ; 

 to advise physicians desiring certification as to 

 course of study and training to be pursued. 



Membership: Published once a year in detail 

 in the Internship and Residency Number, Jour- 

 nal of the American Medical Association. Total 

 membership 875. 



Meetings: Examinations held each spring 

 and fall. 



121. American Board of Ophthalmology. P. O. 



Bo.x 236, Cape Cottage Branch, Portland, 

 Maine. Chairman: Kenneth C. Swan, Depart- 

 ment of Ophthalmology, University of Oregon 

 Medical School, Portland 1, Oreg. Term ex- 

 pires December 1960. Executive Secretary: 

 Merrill J. King. Term expires December 

 1960. 



History: Organized in 1916 as the American 

 Board for Ophthalmic Examinations, with three 

 representatives from the American Ophthalm- 

 ological Society, the Section on Ophthalmology 

 of the American Medical Association, and the 

 American Academy of Ophthalmology and 

 Otolaryngology ; name changed later to present 

 title; incorporated May 1917; reorganized in 

 1934 so that each component society elects four 

 members, with one elected each year to serve 

 a four-year term. 



Purpose: To elevate the standards of 

 ophthalmology, to determine the competence of 

 ophthalmologists who desire certification, to 

 conduct examinations for candidates who ap- 

 pear before the Board and to issue certificates 

 to those who pass, to act as advisors to prospec- 

 tive students of ophthalmology. 



Mem.bership: Members selected by the com- 

 ponent societies, 12; consultants, 4; emeritus 

 members, 4. Total membership 20. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



122. American Board of Pathology. Indiana 

 University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 

 7, Ind. President: William B. Wartman, 303 

 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago 11, 111. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. Secretary: Ed- 

 ward B. Smith, 1200 West Michigan Street, 

 Indianapolis 7, Ind. Term expires December 

 31, 1960. 



History: Organized and incorporated 1936 in 

 Michigan. Initially supported by American 

 Medical Association and American Society of 

 Clinical Pathologists. Subsequently supported 

 also by College of American Pathologists, 

 American Association of Pathologists and 



Bacteriologists, and American Society for Ex- 

 perimental Pathology. 



Purpose: To determine proficiency of phy- 

 sicians specializing in practice of pathology. 



Membership: Requires M. D. degree, license 

 to practice medicine, and special training in 

 pathology as approved by Council on Medical 

 Education and Hospitals of American Medical 

 Association and by this Board. Twelve members 

 (institutions), 4,000 diplomates. 



Aleetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Awards certificates 

 for proficiency in pathology. 



123. American Board of Preventive Medicine. 



3438 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 4, Pa. 

 President: Ernest L. Stebbins, Dean, Johns 

 Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public 

 Health, Baltimore 5, Md. Term expires June 

 1961. Secretary-Treasurer : Tom F. Wliayne, 

 Associate Dean, School of Medicine, Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Term 

 expires June 1962. 



History: A non-profit corporation formed 

 upon recommendation of a joint committee com- 

 posed of representatives from the Section on 

 Preventive and Industrial Medicine and Public 

 Health of the American Medical Association 

 and the Committee on Professional Education of 

 the American Public Health Association, and 

 created in accordance with the action of the 

 Advisory Board for Medical Specialties ; incor- 

 porated in Delaware June, 1948, as the American 

 Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 

 Incorporated; in 1949 recognized and approved 

 by the Council on Medical Education and Hos- 

 pitals of the American Medical Association as 

 a Medical Specialty Board authorized to certify 

 properly qualified specialists in public health, 

 specialists in aviation medicine in Eebruary 

 1953, and of specialists in occupational medicine 

 in June 1955. Name changed to present title in 

 1952. 



Purpose: To encourage the study, improve the 

 practice, and elevate the standards and advance 

 the cause of preventive medicine ; to grant and 

 issue to physicians, duly licensed by law to prac- 

 tice medicine, certificates of special knowledge in 

 the various fields of preventive medicine : public 

 health, aviation medicine, and occuptional 

 medicine. 



Membership: Limited to graduates from a 

 medical school in the United States or Canada 

 approved by the Council on Medical Education 

 and Hospitals of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation, or from a foreign school satisfactory to 

 the Board, with a hospital internship of at least 

 one year approved by the same Council and 

 Board, with authority to practice medicine in a 

 State, territory, commonwealth, or possession 



