History of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1950-1970

Abstract

This small volume is a readable distillation of 20 years of Executive Board meetings, committee reports, administrative actions, and pertinent letters, which together present the development of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In a subtle combination of chronological detail and functional organization, Dr. Mengert has outlined the steps taken by this now mature and powerful society of over 9,500 qualified specialists to achieve the status accorded to the American College of Physicians and the American College of Surgeons. Mengert indicates how the need for a national organization was finally recognized, as well as how the many obstacles to such a society were overcome. Although elevation of the standards and the regulation of educational programs for the training of physicians and surgeons had already begun, it took 15 years for the ACOG to be wholeheartedly granted peer recognition of its right and capacity to perform this function within its

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