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[Identification of item], in the Medical Alumni Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40117, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Medical colleges--North Carolina--History.
• Medical education--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Departments.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Medicine--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Medical Alumni Office.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine--History.

• School of Medicine Centennial Committee Records (#40116)

This records group contains copies of materials used by Elizabeth Majette Parker in compiling the Centennial Alumni Directory for the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before the directory could be compiled, however, it was necessary to determine what constituted an alumnus of the medical school at Chapel Hill--that is, whether students who attended the one- and two-year courses in medicine from 1880 to 1952 were in fact alumni of the School of Medicine, and whether students who received their medical degrees at the University Medical Department at Raleigh, 1901-1910, also qualified as alumni.

Prior to the centennial celebration of the School of Medicine, during the period when alumni records were being computerized, it was decided that all students who had completed the one- and two-year medical courses, as well as those who received their degrees in Raleigh, would be considered alumni of the medical school and would be listed as such in the alumni records and in the Centennial Alumni Directory. The decision was based on the precedent established in 1954, when Certificates in Medicine were awarded retroactively to students who had completed the one- or two-year medical courses prior to 1942, the first year Certificates in Medicine were given. It was also decided to include students who had studied medicine privately in Chapel Hill while attending the university in 1879-1880.

The records contain Elizabeth Parker's summary explanation of the decisions discussed above, as well as the supporting documentation for the decisions. They also include the sources used in compiling the Centennial Alumni Directory of the School of Medicine.

• Oversize volume (SV-40117/1)