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Phi Chi, one of the oldest medical fraternities in the world, was established on March 5, 1905. [1] It was formed by the merger of two professional medical fraternities with the same name. [1] Phi Chi Society (Phi Chi East) was founded on March 31, 1889, at the University of Vermont. [1]
Phi Chi Society (Phi Chi East) was founded on March 31, 1889, at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. Phi Chi Medical Fraternity (Phi Chi South) was founded on October 26, 1894, at the Louisville Medical College, Louisville, Ky. These two organizations did not know that they shared a similar name when they were founded.
The first professional fraternity was founded at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1819: the Kappa Lambda Society of Aesculapius, established to bring together students of the medical profession. The fraternity lasted until about 1858.
Alpha Kappa Kappa (ΑΚΚ) is a medical school fraternity that was founded in 1888 at Dartmouth Medical School.AKK had over sixty chapters at various medical schools throughout the United States and Canada for approximately eighty years but now operates with two independent, local chapters.
Phi Delta Medical Fraternity was established in 1901 at the Long Island Hospital Medical College in Long Island, New York. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] This was called the Alpha Alpha chapter . The fraternity created a constitution and by-laws. [ 3 ]
Black fraternities and sororities were based on existing fraternities and sororities but cultural additions were made including calls, open hand signs, and step shows; though social in nature, many African-American fraternal organizations were formed with an emphasis on public service and civil rights. [25]
Chi Zeta Chi was established by Dr. Jesse Ainsley Griffin at the Medical Department of the University of Georgia on October 4, 1903. [1] [3] Griffin was a medical doctor in Augusta, Georgia who believed the southern medical schools needed a "high class fraternity". [4]
During that year Phi Chi East, called a conference of its chapters and organized a Grand Chapter, retaining the name. Curry pointed out to them that the Southern fraternity, Phi Chi Medical Fraternity was incorporated; the use of the name and seal therefore restricted and they would have to take a new name. The Eastern boys were as shrewd as ...