Medical Arts Internal Medicine history

First located in Detroit, the University moved its campus to Ann Arbor in 1837.

Just a few years later in 1848, the Board of Regents established a three-member medical school (or the "medical" department as it was then called) and appointed Abram Sager, MD, as Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.

In 1850, as the first students arrived in Ann Arbor, Doctor Sager became Professor of Obstetrics.

After he passed away in 1860, he was followed by a series of physicians, some of whom maintained private practices in Detroit.

In 1869, the University became the first American medical school to own and operate its own hospital, a key part of a robust clinical educational system.

In 1870, the University became the first major American medical school to admit women.

Established in 1899, it was similar to one launched at Johns Hopkins four years earlier, giving students responsibility for patient care under faculty supervision.

He arrived with the Catherine Street hospital under construction, which by 1900, would give him access to the largest teaching hospital in the country.

The Medical Department had 17 graduates in its first graduating class of 1901.

His contributions led to an invitation from British cardiologist Thomas Lewis to serve as one of six co-editors of his new journal Heart (later renamed Clinical Science), which debuted in 1909.

An internship program was started at Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium in 1910.

In fact, Hewlett acquired U-M’s first electrocardiograph in 1913, an instrument in which he saw great diagnostic potential.

In 1914, the medical school began using the faculty designation “professor of internal medicine.” Before then, it had noted that faculty members taught “principles and practice of medicine,” using the title of Osler's textbook.

In 1920, the ACP established a journal called the Annals of Medicine, which later changed its name to the Annals of Clinical Medicine.

Though Sturgis had no research record on the topic, he was the strongest candidate in every other respect and was brought on board in 1927 with the agreement that he would be appointed Chair of Internal Medicine the following year.

In 1928 he began to devote himself to the Department of Postgraduate Medicine, of which he was made head, and to the University Health Service, to which he was Medical Adviser for several years.

Baylor's internists often joined nationally recognized speakers in presenting papers at the annual Dallas Southern Clinical Society's Spring Conference from its inception in 1929.

The ACP, in conjunction with the American Medical Association, formed the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in 1936 (11, 12). The purpose of the board was to establish more definite criteria for the title of specialist in internal medicine, so that the public would know whom to trust.

In 1939, after being away from the medical school for 19 years, he formed the Southwestern Medical Foundation.

Medical specialty boards established by 1940*

In 1942, Doctor Winans left a large private practice to activate the hospital, and after a year of stateside training of its personnel, he accompanied the unit for overseas duty in North Africa and Italy.

Internal medicine at Baylor University Hospital changed when the medical school moved to Houston in 1943.

Robinson joined the internal medicine faculty in 1944, where his interests shifted to arthritis.

In 1946, when Doctor Elgin Ware was an intern, all of Baylor's interns went on a 24-hour strike to protest the lack of teaching.

The institute’s work also impacted the educational mission: Isaacs developed a third-year elective on diseases of the blood, students participated in institute research, and Sturgis himself produced a hematology textbook in 1948.

By 1950, there were over 40 board-certified internists on the Baylor medical staff, and the number continued to increase.

By 1954, even doctors on the teaching services at Baylor could not get their patients into the hospital.

Doctor Winans was still chief of medicine, and in 1956 he asked Doctor Thomas to replace him as chief of internal medicine (Figure ​(Figure66).

Medical Arts Associates, Ltd. began as a two physician partnership in 1959.

Doctor Winans dies at 71; physician, educator and soldier Dallas Morning News, March 16, 1965.

In 1970 the partnership was formally incorporated as Medical Arts Associates, Ltd.

In 1973, doctors William McCormick and James Gilson joined Medical Arts and developed Cardiology services on both sides of the river.

Doctor John S. Fordtran succeeded Doctor Tompsett as chief of internal medicine in 1979 (Figure ​(Figure1010). Doctor Fordtran is a native Texan; he grew up in Stockdale, a small town in South Texas, and worked on his parents' farm.

In a special article in the August 28, 1980 New England Journal of Medicine, Robert Petersdorf, outgoing chairman of medicine at the University of Washington, cited this structure as a possible solution to the growing demands on chairs of medicine for the decade ahead.

Doctor Marvin J. Stone, director of Baylor Sammons Cancer Center and chief of oncology, in charge of junior medical students since 1983.

Cassell, Eric J. 1984. "How Is the Death of Barney Clark to be Understood?" In After Barney Clark: Reflections on the Utah Heart Program, ed.

In 1989 the internal medicine teaching facilities were markedly improved by a generous gift from the family of Doctor John S. Bagwell, one of Baylor's outstanding general internists for many years.

Cassell, Eric J. 1991.

Landis, David A. 1993. "Physician, Distinguish Thyself: Conflict and Covenant in a Physician's Moral Development." In Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 36(4): 628–641.

eric j. cassell (1995)

Since 1997, the main offices have been in the UnityPoint Campus on 7th Street and John Deere Road, Moline, Illinois.

When Doctor Fordtran reached the age of 65, he gave up his position as chief of internal medicine, although he continued to serve as president of the Baylor Research Institute until 1999.

When John M. Carethers, MD (GI), was recruited to the chairmanship in 2009 by Dean James Woolliscroft, it felt a bit like “coming home,” he says.

When he arrived, there were no departmental quality structures in place, so in 2014, Carethers named Scott Flanders, MD (Gen), as internal medicine’s first associate vice chair of quality and innovation.