RT Journal
T1 DIscontinuation of temporary approvals of residencies
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD March 19
VO 139
IS 12
SP 789
OP 790
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900290035011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900290035011
AB Elsewhere in this issue is an announcement by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals that the Council will no longer grant temporary approval to residency training programs. Henceforth residencies will be considered for approval only after they have been inspected by representatives of the Council. By this action the Council has returned to its traditional policy of approving only those institutions which have actually been inspected by its representatives.At the end of the war the tremendous expansion of residency training programs to accommodate returning veterans made it essential that a procedure be developed which would permit the prompt handling of the large number of applications for approval of newly created residencies. Accordingly, in February 1946, the Council in conjunction with the Advisory Board for Medical Specialties and the individual American Boards adopted a plan of granting temporary approval pending inspection to hospitals that submitted sufficient information about their