1952

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, with representatives from AMA, AHA, American College of Surgeons, and American College of Physicians, begins evaluating hospitals in order to ensure standardization (Stevens II, 246-48). American Psychiatric Assn. publishes its first DSM, developed by members of GAP and consistent both with psychoanalysis and with ideas of Adolf Meyer. At least 10 of the 21 members of APA Committee on Nomenclature & Statistics belonged to psychoanalytic organizations (Paris, 81; Kirk & Kutchins, 28; Valenstein, 157). Establishment of National Resident Matching Program, a private, nonprofit corporation (Cheng, 181-2).