Texas State Board of Medical Examiners records

Richardson, William Augustus Sutton, Carrie Jane Colunga, Petra Bonilla T. Chu, William Yun Lang Rodriguez, Hesiquio Yen, Moore

Identity elements

レファレンスコード

IC 058

記述レベル

コレクション

タイトル

Texas State Board of Medical Examiners records

日付

  • 1907 (作成)
  • 1907-1972 (作成)

規模

49 cubic feet (98 boxes)

作成者名

(1907-)

管理の履歴

The Texas Medical Board is the body responsible for regulating medical practitioners in the state of Texas through examination, licensing, setting standards of practice, and, if necessary, disciplinary action. Texas began regulating physicians in 1837 when Dr. Anson Jones, one of the few formally educated physicians in the state, wrote the Medical Practice Act. The Board of Medical Censors tested prospective physicians and granted licenses from 1837 until 1848. A new regulatory law for medical doctors was enacted in 1873 and the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners was formed in 1907. In 1993 the Board expanded to create the Texas State Board of Physician Assistant Examiners and the Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners. It was renamed the Texas Medical Board in 2005.

Content and structure elements

範囲と内容

The Texas State Board of Medical Examiners collection consists primarily of licensure records for more than 6,000 Texas physicians. The license applications and related materials date from 1907 to 1972. A typical doctor's file contains biographical information, licensure applications, registration cards, some correspondence, and usually a photograph. In addition to these files, there are two additional boxes of registration cards that are not accompanied by supplemental information. The collection also contains newsletters, a directory, and lists of doctors newly licensed, which date from 1979-2008.

The physicians documented in this collection were either licensed to practice medicine in Texas in 1907 or applied for licenses or license renewals after 1907 and up to 1972. The files include information on physicians from a variety of medical backgrounds. Many of the doctors practiced traditional medicine as well as osteopathy, but some licenses were issued to doctors trained in eclectic medicine and other non-traditional forms.

Dates provided in the inventory reflect the full range of dates noted in a given doctor's file. They are roughly, but not always exactly, analogous to the doctor's lifespan. The first date given is typically the doctor's birth year, according to the licensure application. The later date may be a death date. However, in some cases it may be the latest date that the license was renewed, or the date when the Board determined that the physician was deceased (sometimes years after the actual death date).

編成システム

The collection is divided into two series: Series I: Licensure Records, 1907-1972, and Series II: Newsletters, Directory, and Doctors Newly Licensed, 1979-2008. The licensure records are organized alphabetically by last name.

Conditions of access and use elements

アクセスの条件

Material is open for research.

物理的アクセス

Most of the materials are in good condition. However, after tropical storm Allison in 2001, some of the records were water damaged and discarded. Some of the remaining materials do show evidence of water damage.

Technical access

複製の条件

Copyright restrictions may apply. Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the repository, McGovern Historical Center.

Languages of the material

  • 英語

資料に用いられている文字

  • ラテン文字

言語とスクリプトの注記

検索手段

Generated finding aid

取得と評価・選別に関する項目

収蔵状況の経緯

Deed-3

直接の取得先

Texas Board of Medical Examiners approved transferring custody of these files from the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners to the Historical Research Center in Houston, which is now known at the Texas Medical Center Library’s McGovern Historical Center. See the correspondence in the control folder and the copy of the “Request for Authority to Dispose of Public Records.”

評価選別、廃棄、スケジュールに関する情報

追加資料

Accruals are not expected for this collection.

関連資料エレメント

原本の存在と所在

コピーの存在と所在

Biographical information from this collection can also be found in the Gazetteer of Deceased Texas Physicians at https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/gazetteer/

関連するアーカイブズ資料

Texas State Board of Medical Examiners Records at the Texas State Archives https://txarchives.org/tslac/finding_aids/20135.xml. The MHC also has PDF copies of these ledgers in its Reference Files.

関連の記述

Notes element

Specialized notes

  • Citation: Texas State Board of Medical Examiners records; IC 058; McGovern Historical Center, Texas Medical Center Library. Please cite the box and folder numbers where appropriate.
  • Processing information: Folder-level inventory by Gina Leonard, 2020-2021. Reviewed and uploaded by Matt Richardson, September 2021. The Scope and Contents note and other collection description was also updated based on the inventory.

別の識別子

TARO

00115

Description control element

ルールまたは規則

DACS 2021

Sources used

アーキビストの注記

Processed by Gina Leonard, 2020-2021.

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