1900 to 1939

1901

AMA reorganizes, creating the House of Delegates

1906

AMA Council on Medical Education inspects 160 medical schools and classifies them into three groups: A=acceptable; B=doubtful; and C=unacceptable

1910

The Flexner report, 'Medical Education in the United States and Canada', funded by the Carnegie Foundation and supported by the AMA, is published and facilitates new standards for medical schools. The report cites many diploma mills

1913

AMA establishes a Propaganda Department to gather and disseminate information concerning health fraud and quackery.

1914

AMA Council on Medical Education sets standards for hospital internship programs and publishes first list of approved hospitals offering such programs

1922

Woman's Auxiliary to the AMA is organized to assist the AMA in the advancement of medicine and public health

1923

AMA adopts standards for medical specialty training

1924

Morris Fishbein begins 25-year tenure as editor of JAMA and Hygeia

1927

AMA Council on Medical Education and Hospitals publishes first list of hospitals approved for residency training

1934

Official recognition of medical specialty boards begins through collaborative efforts of the AMA Council on Medical Education and the Advisory Board of Medical Specialties (and later by its successor, the American Board of Medical Specialties)

1937

AMA asks county medical societies to share the burden of caring for poor patients