Phi Chi, one of the oldest medical fraternities in the world, was established on March 5, 1905.
[Shepard, Francis W., ed. (1927)]
''Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities'' (11th ed.)
Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Company. p. 419-421. – via Google Books. It was formed by the merger of two professional medical fraternities with the same name.
Phi Chi Society
Phi Chi Society (), or what would become known as the Eastern Fraternity of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, Phi Chi, was founded by Caleb Wakefield Clark with the support of Frederick Luther Osgood, Isaac Newton Fox and Alfred Judson Young, all of th ...
(Phi Chi East) was founded on March 31, 1889, at the
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the United ...
.
(Phi Chi South) was founded on October 26, 1894, at the Louisville Medical College.
These two organizations did not know they shared a similar name when they were founded.
On March 5, 1905, in Burlington, Vt.,
Phi Chi Society
Phi Chi Society (), or what would become known as the Eastern Fraternity of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, Phi Chi, was founded by Caleb Wakefield Clark with the support of Frederick Luther Osgood, Isaac Newton Fox and Alfred Judson Young, all of th ...
and
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, Inc., were consolidated taking the name Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, Inc.
Phi Chi East had five active chapters at the time of the merger.
Phi Chi South had eighteen active chapters at the time of the merger.
Phi Chi also merged with the
Pi Mu Honor Society on October 7, 1922, acquiring a new chapter and absorbing six chapters.
Chapters
When the Phi Chi Society and Phi Chi Medical Fraternity combined in 1905, it was decided that when the names of any two chapters conflicted, the chapter with precedence would retain its single-letter name and the chapter with the later chapter date would duplicate its name. The result was retaining the ''Alpha chapter'' (1889) at the
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the United ...
as named, and renaming the former ''Alpha chapter'' of Louisville (1894) as ''Alpha Alpha chapter'', and so forth.
Following is a list of chapters.
Active chapters are indicated in bold. Inactive chapters are in ''italics''.
Notes
References
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* {{cite journal , last=Cannon , first=Daniel H. , year=2009 , title=Chapters , journal=Phi Chi Chronicles , volume=13 , issue=1
Phi Chi
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity