1935

Jackson accepts presidency of Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (Jackson, 192-93) after AMA Council on Med. Educ. withdraws approval of WMC, which thereby lost membership in AAMC (Peitzman, 167ff.). Establishment of American Board of Internal Medicine by Board of Regents of American College of Physicians (Rackemann, 232; Fye 2, 85, 88-89). In 1936, ABIM decided it would specify training guidelines for the medical subspecialties; this policy “institutionalized a philosophy that the career path to nonsurgical fields like cardiology and other medical subspecialties would go through internal medicine” (Fye 2, 89).