At the February 1845 New York State Medical Society meeting, Dr Nathan Smith Davis "earnestly" recommend that a National Convention of Delegates from Medical Societies and Colleges in the whole Union... convene in the city of New York on the first Thursday in May, in the year 1846...", the purpose begin to form a national medical association to "raise standards of medical education and of medical ethics". At this time medical school was "not exactly rigorous" nor costly. Dr Nathan Smith Davis (N.S.D) wrote about the sub-standard education in the Nov 1845 volume of the NY Journal of Medicine (NYJM) dated Sept. 22, 1845: "All the young man has to do is gain admittance in the office of some physician, where he can have access to a series of ordinary medical text-books, and see a patient perhaps once a month, with perhaps a hasty post-mortem examination once a year; and in the course of three years thus spent, one or two courses of lectures in the medical colleges, where the whole science of medicine, including anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, pathology, practice of medicine, medical jurisprudence, surgery, and midwivery are all crowded upon his mind in the short space of..
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