You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing and what you can do to make your experience on this site better.


ABOUT ARCHIVES
Advanced Search

Welcome   | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In


  Vol. 109 No. 2, August 1974 TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Archives
  •  Online Features
  ARTICLES
 This Article
 •References
 •Full text PDF
 •Send to a friend
 • Save in My Folder
 •Save to citation manager
 •Permissions
 Citing Articles
 •Citation map
 •Citing articles on HighWire
 •Citing articles on Web of Science (4)
 •Contact me when this article is cited
 Related Content
 •Similar articles in this journal
 Social Bookmarking
  Add to CiteULike Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Reddit Add to Technorati Add to Twitter What's this?

Specialization and Superspecialization in Surgery

Charles Eckert, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1974;109(2):139-142.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

We are privileged to have as our hosts for this meeting the Department of Surgery of the University of Cincinnati. Its chairman, William A. Altemeier, MD, was the 16th president of the Central Surgical Association in 1959. Many of you I am sure have read the symposium on "A Sesquicentennial Study of Daniel Drake and the Results of His Theories on Medical Education" that was moderated by Dr. Altemeier and published in the Annals of Surgery (170:528, 1969). The College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati was founded on Jan 19, 1819, by a charter granted to Daniel Drake by the Ohio legislature. Drake was far ahead of his time in his ideas of medical education and it is in no small measure owing to his influence that the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati attained early preeminent status. The surgical school of this institution has long . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]


Author Affiliations

From the Department of Surgery, Albany (NY) Medical College of Union University.


Footnotes

Accepted for publication April 9, 1974.

President's address, read before the 31st annual meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Cincinnati, March 8, 1974.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Albany Medical College of Union University, Albany, NY 12208 (Dr. Eckert).



Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter     What's this?





HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | CME | SUBMIT | SUBSCRIBE | HELP
CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP
 
© 1974 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.