Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter Records
Scope and Contents
The Association of Internes and Medical Students (AIMS) was organized by local chapters. The Harvey Cushing Chapter, the Yale School of Medicine chapter, compiled or collected the documents in this collection. The chapter organized lecture series with talks by prominent health professionals and explored such issues as the distribution of medical care, blacks in medicine and medical care of minorities, universal health insurance, and health care in other countries. Documents include correspondence by members of the chapter, especially Lewis P. Rowland (YSM, 1948) and Ruth Leyendecker (YSM, 1951); an annual report and incomplete chapter minutes; documents related to national conventions, and memoranda distributed to the chapter; and issues of the AIMS journal The Interne, 1948. Some of the documents relate to the International Union of Students, the National Society for Medical Research, the National Youth Assembly Against National Military Training, and the American Medical Association. Halsted R. Holman (YSM 1949), president of AIMS, responded to insinuations of communism by the AMA.
Dates
- 1946-1949
Creator
- Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter
- Association of Internes and Medical Students
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Yale University does not own copyright.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Found in the collection. Provenance unknown.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The Association of Internes and Medical Students (AIMS), which advocated for progressive causes such as national health insurance, was organized by medical school chapters. The Harvey Cushing Chapter was the Yale School of Medicine chapter. The collection contains correspondence, a report, and minutes of the chapter and material on national AIMS activities.
Biographical / Historical
The Association of Internes and Medical Students (AIMS) was founded in 1941 when the Interne Council of America (ICA), formed in 1936, joined with the Association of Medical Students, formed in 1937. AIMS promoted a number of progressive causes such as national health insurance and cooperation with medical students overseas. Because AIMS endorsed what were considered radical ideas in the days of McCarthyism, the organization was suspected of being subversive. Increasing attacks and lack of funds forced it to disband by about 1952. The Student American Medical Association was founded in 1950 to counter AIMS.
- American Medical Association
- Association of Internes and Medical Students
- Correspondence
- Cort, Ruth Leyendecker
- Draft -- United States
- Holman, Halsted, 1925-
- International Union of Students
- Interns (Medicine) -- Connecticut
- Medical students
- Medical students -- Connecticut
- National Society for Medical Research (U.S.)
- National Youth Assembly Against Universal Military Training
- National health insurance -- United States
- Rowland, Lewis P., 1925-2017
- Student movements
- The Interne
- Vivisection
- Yale University. School of Medicine
- Title
- Guide to the Association of Internes and Medical Students, Harvey Cushing Chapter Records
- Author
- Finding aid by Toby A. Appel
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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