Harris County Academy of General Practice records

Identity elements

Reference code

IC 052

Level of description

Collection

Title

Harris County Academy of General Practice records

Date(s)

  • 1949-1966 (Creation)

Extent

4 cubic feet (8 boxes)

Name of creator

(1948-)

Administrative history

The Harris County Association of General Practice is a component branch of the American Academy of General Practice and the Texas Chapter of the American Academy of General Practice. Through the diligent efforts of Dr. Lyman C. Blair and others a charter was issued on July 23rd, 1948, thereby establishing the Harris County Chapter.

On September 1st, 1948 the Harris County Association of General Practice held its first meeting in the Medical Arts Building. Twenty three physicians participated in the presentation and acceptance of the chapter's first constitution and by-laws. Officers were elected and monthly meetings were scheduled at this time. Dr. Blair served as the chapter's first president and Dr. M. E. Petway was elected the first Secretary.

Over the years meetings were held in a number of locations to encourage general practitioners to join and gather support. Some of the locations were the Medical Arts Building, the Baylor College of Medicine, the San Jacinto Inn, various restaurants and hotel dining rooms, M.D. Anderson Hospital and the Doctors' Club. Eventually, dinner meetings were established at the Doctors' Club, an annual meeting was held at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and the February meetings were held in Baytown.

Following the lead of its parent organization, the Association lent support to local general practitioners, encouraged young physicians to enter the field, and sponsored a number of postgraduate and scientific programs conducted by various nationally recognized specialists. The Harris County Association of General Practice took great pride in its efforts to improve the image of general practice and the fine postgraduate programs it conducted.

The Harris County Medical Archive is proud to house this vital collection. The collection successfully documents the history of a local medical association and to some extent the attitudes with the field of general practice.

The collection is open for research. Those interested in using the collection whould contact the Archivist or Special Collections Librarian.

Committees of the Harris County Academy of General Practice Credentials Hospital Liaision Public and Profession Relations Education and Program Membership By-Laws Publications Special Resolutions and Memorial Grievance Ethics and Jurisprudence Entertainment Student Orientation Budget Roster Historical

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Scope and content

The Harris County Association of General Practice is a component branch of the American Academy of General Practice and the Texas Chapter of the American Academy of General Practice. Through the diligent efforts of Dr. Lyman C. Blair and others a charter was issued on July 23rd, 1948, thereby establishing the Harris County Chapter.

The collection documents the history of a local medical association and to some extent the attitudes with the field of general practice.

System of arrangement

The Harris County Association of General Practice Collection is divided into three series : I. History; II. Committees and Membership; III. Publications and Programs

Box 1: History - 1 Box This series contains a framed copy of the charter, several versions of the chapter's constitution, by-laws and subsequent revisions. Included is a history of the chapter written by it's first president Dr. Lyman Blair. Material on the parent organizations the American Academy of General Practice and the Texas Academy of General Practice as well as the Harris County Medical Association and Texas Medical Association are included this small series.

Boxes 2-7: Committee and Membership - This series has the chapter's agenda, board of director minutes, minutes of the general meetings, and rosters of members. Monthly budgets, annual committee and officer reports, appointment documents and correspondence are filed in this series. Some of the correspondence is organized according to the office as originally established.A fine description of the committees and officers from 1953 to 1957 can be found in this series.

Box 8: Publications and Programs - This series are the newsletters from the chapter : News Bits and News Biopsy. Several articles and manuals pertaining to general medicine. A few folders on programs held by the Harris County Association of General Practice round out this collection.

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Conditions governing access

No restrictions to access.

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Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright restrictions may apply.

Languages of the material

  • English

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Finding aids

Old EAD finding aid. Updated finding aid 2020.

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Acquisition and appraisal elements

Custodial history

Deed-5

Immediate source of acquisition

Source is unknown, Assumed to be creator.

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No accruals are expected for this collection.

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Specialized notes

  • Citation: Harris County Academy of General Practice records, IC 052, John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. Please cite the box and folder numbers where appropriate.
  • Processing information: The Harris County Association of General Practice arrived with some arrangement in place. Where possible the initial organization was retained. In the interest of preservation duplicates already in the collection were discarded. The collection had one slide and one black and white photograph. Since they corresponded to specific lecturers they were left with the respective manuscripts.

Alternative identifier(s)

TARO

00052

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Archivist's note

The collection was originally processed and a guide written by Margaret A. Irwin, September, 1991. The guide was reformatted in February, 2008 for on-line searching. There were no changes made to the content of the guide during the reformatting.

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