Philadelphia Postgraduate Course

Philadelphia Postgraduate Course

New Jersey Postgraduate Course The first annual postgraduate course in diseases of the chest for the general practitioner has been arranged under the ...

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New Jersey Postgraduate Course The first annual postgraduate course in diseases of the chest for the general practitioner has been arranged under the auspices of the New Jersey Chapter of the College and the New Jersey Academy of General Practice. This postgraduate course is being sponsored by the Council on Postgraduate Medical Education of the American College of Chest Physicians. The sessions w1ll be held on four consecutive Wednesdays commencing February 20 and will continue through March 12, 1952. All sessions wlll be given at the Essex House Hotel, 1050 Broad street, Newark, New Jersey. The following physicians comprise the postgraduate course committee: J. R. Herradora, Director Irving Willner, Chairman Samuel Cohen, Secretary Felix Baum A. Joseph Hughes Frank Bortone Lester L. Klapper Albert Carabell1 Marcus Newcomb Martin Castellano Albert A. Peckman Homer Cherry Allan J. Stolow Lawrence A. Wilson The co-ordinators for this course are: Edwin Rosner, President-Elect; Vincent Campana, Vice-President; Arthur Trewhella, Secretary-Treasurer, of the New Jersey Academy of General Practice; Juan R. Herradora, President, New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Chest Physicians; and Irving Willner, Governor of the College for New Jersey. Sixteen hours of formal credit toward postgraduate education requirements of the New Jersey Academy of General Practice will be given to the physicians completing this course.

Philadelphia Postgraduate Course The Fifth Annual Postgraduate Course in diseases of the chest sponsored by the Council on Postgraduate Medical Education of the College and the Laennec Society of Philadelphia wlll be held at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 24-28, 1952. The members of the Executive Committee in charge of the postgraduate course are: Chevalier L. Jackson, Chairman Katharine R. Boucot Burgess L. Gordon Leon H. Coll1ns,Jr. Esmond R. Long J. Antrim Crellin Charles M. Norris Martin J. Sokoloff J. Winthrop Peabody, ex-officio An interesting program on the newer aspects of diseases of the chest has been prepared for this postgraduate course. The program includes sessions on cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular surgery, impact of streptomycin on the problem of tuberculosis, ACTH and Cortisone in tuberculosis, roentgenology and the chest, "B.C.G." diagnosis of esophageal disease, surgery of the esophagus, fungus of the lung, suppurative diseases of the bronchi and lung, and bronchopulmonary tumors.

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