Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-29
ATLANTA MEDICAL SCHOOLS
have Been CONSOLIDATED
Under Name Of Atlanta Med.
iCal College

ment made today of the consolidation
o. the Atlanta College of Physicians
ard Surgeons and the Atlanta School
of Medicine, under the name Atlanta
Medical College, will come as a sur
prise to the medical fraternity through
out the South.
These two well-known medical edu-
cational institutions, particularly the
former on account of its age, have
graduates in every Southern state and
in many other sections of the United
States.
The enrolment of the Atlanta Col
lege Of Physicians and Surgeons last
year was 334 and that of the Atlanta
School of Medicine 218, making a total
of 552 for the two colleges, represent
ing not only all of the states of the
South, but other sections and several
foreign countries as we'll. This will
give the new Atlanta Medical College d
splendid enrolment, and it's future
purpose will be as stated in the an
nouncement of the consolidation, not
so much to increase the attendance as
t. elevate the standard.
Both of these colleges have been OPP
Grated as public institutions, and the
consolidated college will remain on
the same basis. There has never been
any purpose of institutional gain, and
they have sought only to meet expenses
and to give to the South capable and
we'll equipped physicians.
This consolidation is the outgrowth
OF medical education which began in
Atlanta before the war. The Atlanta
Medical College was the name of the
first institution of the kind founded in
Atlanta in 1854. 1t suspended during
the war and the building was used as d
hospital. 1t was merged in 1898 with
the Southern Medical College to form
the Atlanta College of Physicians and
Surgeons. The Atlanta School of Med
icine was founded in 1905, and now
these two have come together, taking
the name of the old, before the war"
institution, the Atlanta Medical Col
lege.
The new institution will begin WORK
in the fall under the most favorable
auspices 1t will have as president Dr.
Willis F. Westmoreland a leading sur
geon ond DR.. w. S. Elkin, former pres
ident of the Atlanta College of Physic-
ians and Surgeons, will be dean of the
faculty. Two other leading officers will
be nominated by the Atlanta School of
Medicine, and the faculty will be COM
posed of the best talent in both institu-
lions.
In announcing the consolidation the
committees from the two institutions
state that it has been their object "to
organize an institution of dignity and
of permanent promise whose graduates
will receive general recognition
throughout the United States-an insti-
tuition so constituted as to make it a
real public asset, and so conducted as
tt, expect and to deserve the heartiest
popular commentator.
Special stress is laid upon the con-
ditions which make it possible to main
tain high class medical college here,
and, it is stated, a widespread recogni-
ton has been promised abroad which
could not have been secured had the
two institutions remained apart. Both
sides made concessions in coming to-
gether, but, it is said, there was no dis
agreement over any of the terms.
1t is stated that the immediate effect
of the consolidation will be the placing
OF the Atlanta Medical College in
Glass A" by the American Medical AS
sociation, and it is rendered eligible to
membership in the Association of Am
erican Medical Colleges. Representa-
tives of the new institution have just