1900 to 1920
1901
AMA reorganizes, creating the House of Delegates
1902
AMA acquires its first permanent headquarters in Chicago
1903
Minor changes were made to the 1847 Code and the title was changed to The Principles of Medical Ethics
1904
AMA establishes the Council on Medical Education to accelerate campaign to raise educational requirements for physicians
1905
AMA establishes Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry to set standards for drug manufacturing and advertising and fight the war on quack patent medicines and nostrum trade
AMA Council on Medical Education develops and publishes in JAMA minimum and ideal curriculum standards for medical schools
1906
AMA Council on Medical Education publishes directory of medical schools in the United States, detailing entrance requirements
AMA Chemical Laboratory is established to analyze nostrums and drugs submitted for AMA review (in the 1930s leading to the AMA Seal of acceptance)
AMA publishes first American Medical Directory listing over 128,000 licensed physicians in US and Canada
AMA membership exceeds 50,000
1906-1907
AMA Council on Medical Education inspects 160 medical schools and classifies them into three groups: A=acceptable; B=doubtful; and C=unacceptable
1908
Archives of Internal Medicine founded
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
AMA Council on Medical Education publishes the first edition of Essentials of an Acceptable Medical College, revised eight times in the next 41 years, to be superseded by the Functions and Structure of a Modern Medical School
1911
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine founded under title American Journal of Diseases of Children
Judicial Council bylaws were amended, reducing the size of the Council to five
1912
The Federation of State Medical Boards is established accepting AMA's rating of medical schools as authoritative
AMA approves a report of the standard methods for prevention and control of tuberculosis adopted by the House of Delegates
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
1915
AMA publishes favorable report on government-supported health care through sickness and accident insurance for employed individuals
1919
Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry founded
1920
AMA acquires Journal of Cutaneous Diseases and changes title to Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
Archives of Surgery founded
AMA opposes compulsory health insurance through an August 1920 resolution by the House of Delegates
Council on Medical Education becomes Council on Medical Education and Hospitals
