Foundations of AAMC History Collection
Learn more about the AAMC’s history though our digital collection.
These records are selected from the advisory boards and the “AAMC Collection” in the Mary H. Littlemeyer Archives, and were created and/or collected by the AAMC.
More About the Collection
AAMC Advisory Board Collections
The AAMC has five advisory boards that are each represented on its Board of Directors. The advisory boards series includes documents from each group, such as meeting minutes and agendas, various committee materials, reports, newsletters, and other publications.
AAMC Collection
This collection contains some of AAMC's earliest documentation and includes its historical constitution and bylaws, various historical documents, program announcements from member institutions, positions statements and organizational proceedings.
Scope and Content
The advisory boards collections include meeting minutes and agendas, various committee materials, reports, newsletters, and other publications which were selected and digitized from the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS, formerly Council of Academic Societies), Council of Deans (COD), Council of Teaching Hospitals (COTH), Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR) and Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) series.
The digitized records date ranges are as follows: CFAS: 1967-1989, COD: 1969-1997, COTH: 1967-1999, ORR: 1991-1999 and OSR: 1971-1996.
The digitized AAMC collection records date from 1836 through 1998.
Subjects
- Abraham Flexner
- Accreditation
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- August Swanson
- Biomedical research
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Council of Academic Societies / Council of Faculty and Academic Societies
- Council of Deans
- Council of Teaching Hospitals
- Course catalogs
- Dean Smiley
- Dick Knapp
- Foreign medical schools
- Foreign medical school graduates
- Fred Zapffe
- Government relations
- John A. D. Cooper
- Jordan Cohen
- Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME)
- Lowell Coggeshall
- Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
- Membership
- Military service
- Minorities
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)
- Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR)
- Organization of Student Representatives (OSR)
- Provenance
- Residents
- Robert Berson
- Robert Petersdorf
- US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Ward Darley
- Women
- Workforce
Digitization of the Collections
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00004-C with the University of Maryland Baltimore and supplements an earlier grant funded by the same organization under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3502.
Restrictions on Use
Use of the original papers requires an appointment. The AAMC historical papers are owned by the AAMC. Documents are not to be reproduced without permission. The collection is subject to all U.S. copyright laws.
Available Formats
This collection is partially digitized and available on the AAMC website. The entire collection is available for viewing by appointment.