New digitized collection at the AAMC
New Digitized Collection of Governance Documents Now
Available from AAMC Archives The AAMC has released a new collection of
historical documents featuring meeting materials, publications, and other
resources from the association’s five governing bodies. These serve as
important primary source materials for AAMC members and researchers interested
in the history of medical education in the U.S. and Canada. Making these
materials more easily accessible to the public will help shed light on the
AAMC’s long and intense involvement with the development of modern-day medical
education.
Posting archives online is increasingly considered a best
practice, as it provides easy public access to these important records, and
increases the transparency of the AAMC’s history while also preserving the
actual archival documents. The digitized documents represent a curated
collection selected from the voluminous archives on AAMC history, and more than
triples the online collection of digitized AAMC documents available to the
public. This expansion includes AAMC governance business records as well as its
annual reports from 1962-2000, which highlight the association’s annual
activities.
This project has been funded in whole or in part with
Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No.
HHS-N-276-2011-00004-C with the University of Maryland Baltimore and
supplements an earlier grant funded by the same organization under Contract No.
N01-LM-6-3502.