The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-17
Met WITH TK DOCTORS
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDI-
CINE AIlg6 COMING TO
81. PAUL
HELPED TO RAISE s. zIDARD
This Body Has9Done E.uc1 t. Ele-
vnte Academic Attainr, is of
American Medical ProecA s1On
-Omeial Programmes

medlcaI societies. which make 1t con-
Venient to hold their sessions ait about
the same time as the great convention OF
| the American Medical association. that
OF the American Academy of Medicine
will afford the greatest interest to the
! educated non-medical citizen.
| About the time of the Franco-GcTman
| war, physician from Pennsylvania
| made pilgrimage to the medical CEN
tiers OF the continent of Europe for post
| graduate study, which, at that time, was
not furnished in the United States. His
national pride was hurt to find that
medical diplomas from the United States.
no matter from what college. were
valued at zero. Individual American
physicians might be esteemed, but this
| was apart from, and in spite of the
american degree. He sought to find the
reason, and found 1T: The doctors in the
United States represented absolutely no
| academic value whatever.
Returning home despairing TO make
the diploma of value, for the American
Medical association had been striving to
DO this from its origin and without suc>
! cess, he planned new society, mem
bershlp III which was tc indicate an
/ academic training fairly equivalent to an
M d. of Austria or Germany
The society--the American Academy of
Medicine-was organized in Philadelphia
| - AS'V' bAAdo COHlplGlIH5 us IWSilly -1ll III
| year with the meeting at st. Paul. It's
founders did not wish it to be merely
a society of the record of academic train
ing, sort of a Heralds college iii the
| medical profession. as it were-for they
Old not believe in aristocraey, medical or
otherWlse, and they incorporate various
| OBJECTS" in the constitution.
1T was soon discovered that the
academy could be more active for educa-
tlonaf advancement than the American
| Medical association had been able, for 4
required OF its own membership those
| qualifications the foremost of the profess
! sion believed to be the necessary scholas
tic preparation of the physician Hence
1t could proclaim its propaganda without
| reIlecting upon its own membership
During the first ten or fifteen years of
It's l1fe its discussions and papers were
| devoted almost exclusively to medical
education. During these years the great
advance In medical education which Is
eliminating in the present was begun.
| SOCIOLOGICAL PLoBLEMs STUDIED
With the advance of public and profes-
s1onal opinion regarding the educational
| process necessary to obtain the NJ. D.
| degree, the urgency of further mission
airy effort the part of the academy
| grew less and it turns its attention to
| other problems involving the physician
| In relation to the state public and its
| craft-the sociological problems OF med
| lclne, and its meetings are always con-
fined to these discussions One may
near half aIfdozen papers and their
attending discussions, and not hear. q
disease mentioned land then only Incl
dentaily) Diagnosis, pathology, Their
apeutios and the rest are subjects of in
tense interest to it's. members but their
papers on these subjects are presented to
other societies. Many such will be read
In ST. Paul in the sections of the Amer
lean Medical association, but in the
academy the problems are those of the
! physician and his environment
Because of this popularity, the papers
are. of interest to the general public, and
anyone is made welcome to the open SEES
| sions of the academy, which will be held
| at the Aberdeen, on Sunday June l.
and Monday, June 3.
| The official programme of the meeting
has been issued, and it includes a num-
Der of papers, interest in which should
! not. be confined to the medical profes-
sion alone. On the opening day.. after
| the formal business of organization has
been gone through, there will be a paper
| read by DR.. Thomas D. Davis, of Pitts
| burg, Pa, who takes for his subject.
THE First Year Medical Curriculum. -
In 1T the doctor viii argue that there is a
great need for higher admission require
| ments. He will enter a plea for the
necessity of logic and psychology in a
I medical education.
Then will follow symposium on
! Reciprocity in Medical Licensure." A
number of Wellkpown physicians will
take part in this, and DR.. C. MoIntire, OF
Easton, Pa. willHadd to the interest of
the discussion by speaking against the
idea of reciprocity.
The evening session will have for its
piece de resistance" an address by DR..
S. d. Risley, president of the academy,
on Some of theS Ethical and Sociologic
Relations of the. Physician to the Com
munity." This Will be followed by an
informal reception. to the fellows of the
academy and their friends
| The first part of the second day will
be spent in executive session, and the
| symposium will be on "Institutienalism =
To this, many of the prominent special
| lists present will contribute papers, and
! the session will close with another execu-
tive session.