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Phi Alpha Gamma
Phi Alpha Gamma () is a professional fraternity founded at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, March 25, 1894, by Thomas D. Buchanan, Thomas F. Davies, Edmund M. De Vol, Robert M. Jones, Brooks DeF. Worwood, Arthur B. Smith and Harry S. Willard. Beta chapter was founded at the Boston University School of Medicine, November 26, 1896. In January, delegates from these chapters met delegates from a similar society called KT, which had been established the month before at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, and the societies were joined under the name of ΦΑΓ. The Minnesota and Iowa chapters were formed from the two chapters of a fraternity called ΠΚΤ, established with the view of confining it to homeopathic schools of medicine. ΦΑΓ had active chapters in New York (Alpha) and Philadelphia (Gamma) in 1947. Preliminary details of amalgamation between Phi Alpha Gamma and Phi Chi Medical Fraternity had been worked out by Dr. Albert Saunders of Phi Chi and these th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Delta Theta (professional)
Alpha Delta Theta () is a professional fraternity in the field of medical technology, originally for women. History Alpha Delta Theta was established on by two local sororities, Alpha Delta Tau of the University of Minnesota, formed in 1926, and Tau Sigma of Marquette University, formed in 1942. It was founded to unite all women entering into or engaging in the field of medical technology, to promote social and intellectual fellowship among its members, and to raise the prestige of medical technologists by inspiring the members to greater group and individual effort. Though the Minnesota group was sixteen years older, the Marquette chapter was designated as ''Alpha chapter'' and the Minnesota group as the ''Beta chapter''. Alpha Delta Theta joined the Professional Panhellenic Association in 1952. Some professional fraternities became co-educational as a result of Title IX; it is unknown whether Alpha Delta Theta followed this course, or if they remain/remained a women's frater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi Rho Sigma
Phi Rho Sigma () is a professional fraternity founded by medical students at Northwestern University in 1890. Early History Phi Rho Sigma was founded at the Northwestern Medical School, then the Chicago Medical College on . Its founder were: * Milbank Johnson * T. J. Robeson * H. H. Forline * J. A. Poling The ''Alpha chapter'' granted charters to ''Beta'' and ''Gamma'' chapters and was the head of the fraternity until early in , when three members from each of the then-existing chapters were appointed to take charge of the affairs of the general fraternity. These nine representatives were elected yearly and the body was known as the Grand Chapter. They elected their own officers and had full power to grant charters, enact laws, and perform other duties devolving upon them. By this body charters were granted to ''Delta'', ''Epsilon'' and ''Zeta''. A revised constitution was adopted , which specifies that the grand chapter shall consist of two delegates from each chapter, and that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi Lambda Kappa
Phi Lambda Kappa () is a professional medical fraternity that was founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1907. History The fraternity, founded as a local of this same name in 1907 at the University of Pennsylvania, grew into a national of 41 chapters and 4,800 members as of 1977. The fraternity evolved through consolidation, becoming what it termed "the eastern branch" of an expanded Phi Lambda Kappa by adding Aleph Yodh He, a national formed in 1908 which it then called its western branch. Aleph Yodh He had been formed at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1908, and by the time of the merger had chartered nine chapters and claimed 350 members. A third fraternity joined this consolidation, the local chapter named Zeta Phi Mu at Loyola of Chicago, which had been established in 1912 (earlier?). These moves were an outcome of a planned consolidation of Jewish medical fraternities. The amalgamation produced a combined twelve chapters as the outcome of its organizational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi Kappa Mu
The Phi Kappa Mu () is a medical fraternity based in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. The Greek letters stands for Fraternity of the College of Medicine. Founded in August 1933, it is the oldest medical fraternity in the Philippines. The fraternity was conceived to foster brotherhood, academic excellence, leadership and service to the community among the medical students of the University of the Philippines. History In 1933, Nicanor Padilla Jr., Jose Barcelona, Leopoldo Vergel de Dios, Benito Reverente, and Jesus T. Mendoza, then members of the class of 1936 of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, initiated the founding of the fraternity. They met with Luis Torres Jr., Jose Barcelona, and Antonio Cañiza of the intern's class; Nicasio Sahagun of the senior's class; Enrique Garcia and Victor Nañagas of the lower years. By the time the fraternity was formally created, there were 35 charter members. The name Phi Kappa Mu was conceived by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi Delta Epsilon
Phi Delta Epsilon () (commonly known as PhiDE) is a co-ed international medical fraternity and a member of the Professional Fraternity Association. History Phi Delta Epsilon was founded on October 13, 1904, at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University Medical College. Founders were: * Aaron Brown * Henry Aaronson * Michael Halpern Barsky * Bernard Hyle Eliasberg * Irving Harold Engel * Philip Frank * Abraham Leon Garbat * William Isidore Wallach During the first decade of this century there were many doors closed to Jewish medical students and physicians, doors which would not fully open until after World War II. In 1904, it was not uncommon for American medical schools and medical fraternities to have quotas limiting admission of Jewish students. Thus, Brown and his friends decided to start their own fraternal organization, guided by the precepts of philanthropy, deity, and equity. Soon after, more chapters were organized in the East and Midwest. In 1918, Phi Delta Epsilon am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi Beta Pi
Phi Beta Pi () medical fraternity is a professional fraternity founded in 1891 at the West Pennsylvania Medical College. History Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity is a professional fraternity founded March 10, 1891, at the West Pennsylvania Medical College, a school that is now a department of the University of Pittsburgh). It was, at its beginning, an anti-fraternity society, reactionary to the more secret groups of the day. At formation it was known briefly as Pi Beta Phi professional fraternity, but changed its name because a woman's fraternity also known as Pi Beta Phi had prior claim to that name. Its ''Beta chapter'' was established at the University of Michigan on April 1, 1898, with its first national general assembly in Ann Arbor on January 6, 1900. Baird's Manual (20th ed.) reports that Phi Beta Pi absorbed an early, secret medical fraternity named Kappa Lambda, which may have been the first professional fraternity of any account. It had been founded in 1803 at Transylv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omega Upsilon Phi
Omega Upsilon Phi () was a medical fraternity founded at the University at Buffalo on . Its Founders were: The crest was a shield displaying a monogram of the Omega Upsilon Phi letters below an eye. The colors are crimson and gold and the flower is the red carnation. Omega Upsilon Phi had four degrees in its ritualistic work, three secret undergraduate degrees and one open honorary degree known as the Hippocratic Degree conferred by Grand Chapter vote. The fraternity went defunct in 1934 after merging with Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity. Chapters Omega Upsilon Phi chapters: See also * Professional fraternities and sororities Professional fraternities, in the North American fraternity system, are organizations whose primary purpose is to promote the interests of a particular profession and whose membership is restricted to students in that particular field of profess ... References {{Professional Fraternities Professional medical fraternities and sororities in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omega Tau Sigma
Omega Tau Sigma () is a Veterinary Medicine Professional fraternities and sororities, professional fraternity started at the University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine in 1906. History Omega Tau Sigma was founded by several students in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1906. Within its first decade the fraternity spread to several other Colleges of Veterinary Medicine when it went international with a chapter at Ontario Veterinary by 1914. Omega Tau Sigma is the only Veterinary Medical Fraternities and sororities, fraternity to have an international reach. It eventually spread to fifteen veterinary schools in the United States along with the branch in Canada. The first meeting of its international governing body, the Grand Chapter, was held on 1 April 1911 in Philadelphia. Today, the Grand Chapter meets annually in October. Chapters The fraternity has had chapters a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nu Sigma Nu
Nu Sigma Nu () was an international professional fraternity for medicine, now existing as a handful of stable remaining chapters. It was founded on 2 March 1882 by five medical students at the University of Michigan, who identified as their immediate object "to further the best interests of our profession." Later, its purpose was more fully stated as, "To promote scholarship, the development of better teaching, and generally in raising medical education to a higher level." As one of the earliest formed among all professional fraternities, Nu Sigma Nu was the first fraternal organization nationally to limit membership to medical students only. It can therefore claim that it was the first Medical Professional Fraternity.. Series number and closing date of the issue are inferred. History The organization evolved quickly from its birth on 2 March 1882 under the leadership of five original members, all of the class of 1883, who, along with one other became the six recognized Founders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mu Sigma Phi (medical Fraternity)
The Mu Sigma Phi, or is the first fraternity in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. It is also the first medical fraternity in the Asian region. The fraternity was first mentioned in the Philippine Collegian in its November 24, 1933 article as the "first and only medical students' fraternity."The Mu Sigma Phi does not confer honorary memberships. History The first fraternity in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. Dr. Fernando Calderon, the first Filipino Dean of the UP College of Medicine and the first Filipino Director of the Philippine General Hospital, became the fraternity's first Faculty Adviser. Activities Being a fraternity of medical students, the Mu Sigma Phi has developed a tradition of service. Less than two years after its inception, Mu put together a fund for typhoon victims in the island province of Leyte. In the succeeding decades, the Fraternity put up projects for the college and its training hospital, the Philippine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Tau Sigma
Alpha Tau Sigma () was a professional medical fraternity that ceased operations in 1964. History Alpha Tau Sigma Fraternity was a professional medical fraternity founded in 1912 at the American School of Osteopathy, now the private A.T. Still University, in Kirksville, Missouri. Its founders were: *Charles W. Barnes *W.S. Giddings *E.E. Loose *E.E. Ruby *W.C. Warner The Fraternity incorporated in 1915, with the intention and members were empowered to begin expansion to other recognized colleges of osteopathy. However, although the chapter remained successful on its ''Alpha'' campus, it never grew beyond a local entity. Archived member lists note at least 45 members among one member's network, scattered in the states of Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, with a few elsewhere.Noted ian early, but undated mimeographed list of members in the archives of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine accessed 6 Sept 2020. Alpha Tau Sigma ceased operations in 1964. See also * Professional frater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
