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Benjamin Rush letters to John Morgan
Item
Identifier: MSS 420
Overview
This small collection consists of one letter from Benjamin Rush to John Morgan, dated Edinburgh, July 27, 1768. The topics of the letter include lectures attended by Rush and his thesis.
Dates:
1768
Francis C. Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/184
Scope and Contents
This collection contains professional, personal, and subject
correspondence; financial and property papers; course material;
discussions, book and article reviews, and miscellaneous writings;
and extensive case records with indexes, documenting the life,
interests, and neurosurgical career of Francis Clark Grant. Although
the correspondence is incomplete (primarily 1923 to 1933), the
discussions and reviews extend to 1949, and the case records span
Grant's entire career, 1921-1957....
Dates:
1920 - 1957
John Hubbard presidential papers
Series
Identifier: CPP 2/010
Overview
This collection dates from 1974 to 1978, and documents John Hubbard’s time as College President. It contains correspondence; committee and annual meeting reports, including the Long Range Planning Committee; information relating to the College’s Continuing Medical Education Program for cardiovascular medicine; correspondence of the Section on Medical History; and a scrapbook of correspondence and other documentation about the Restoration Fund (part of the Third Century fundraising...
Dates:
1974-1978
Philadelphia General Hospital Training School for Nurses duty registers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6/005-04
Overview
In September 1883, the Board of Guardians of Philadelphia General Hospital decided to establish a training school for nurses. At first, the program could be completed in one year; eventually, the program was expanded to include three years of course work. By 1931, the school had certified almost 2,000 nurses. This collection of duty registers of the Training School for Nurses of the Philadelphia General Hospital consists of fifteen bound volumes dating from 1885 to 1911. The volumes contain...
Dates:
1885-1911
Records of Continuing Medical Education Programs
Collection
Identifier: CPP 19-01
Overview
During the 1970s, there was an emphasis on continuing medical education (CME) for practicing licensed medical doctors. Lifetime licenses to practice medicine were being replaced by limited time licenses that required renewal. In order to renew their state issued medical licenses, doctors were required to obtain continuing education credits. Beginning in 1974, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia offered symposiums, distance education programs, courses in Philadelphia, and additional...
Dates:
1973-1981
Records of Philly Health Info
Series
Identifier: CPP 21
Overview
The Records of Philly Health Info span the years 1999 to 2010, and include documentation from pre-planning phases of the project, background information, correspondence, advisory committee meeting minutes, grant funding reports, outreach and partnership files, and website design and maintenance details. The collection is divided into nine series, which resemble the original order in which the material was received. Researchers interested early 21st-century public health initiatives by...
Dates:
1999-2010; undated
Records of the Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC)
Collection
Identifier: CPP 20
Overview
In 1995, the C. Everett Koop Community Health Information Center (CHIC) opened, operated by the Katherine A. Shaw Public Services Division of the Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The CHIC was a community resource that provided the public with access to the latest information about medical and health concerns. Available resources included electronic information, journals, newsletters, pamphlets, videocassettes, and a circulating collection of books. The CHIC was operated...
Dates:
1991 - 2001
Records of the Humanism in Medicine Program
Series
Identifier: CPP 12/005-01
Overview
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia developed the Humanism in Medicine Program to help enrich the curriculum of local medical schools in the area. This initiative was conceptualized in the early 2000s and ended in 2007, with funding supported by Horace W. Goldsmith and Arcadia Foundations. The Program aimed to bridge the arts and humanities with medicine, inviting visiting scholars, doubling as successful poets and writers, to present their compositions and artists to exhibit their...
Dates:
1986 - 2007; Majority of material found within 2002 - 2007
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