ABSTRACT
The minutes of an Executive Committee of the Fellowship of Medicine (FM) meeting on 9 October 1919 at 9.00 pm at the RSM began: 'Sir John (he had been knighted in 1919) MacAlister presented the following resolutions which had been sent to him by Dr [later Sir Arthur] Hurst [the Honorary Secretary of the PMA]. The Executive Committee of the PMA had proposed that the two organisations should amalgamate and be known as the Fellowship of Medicine and Post-Graduate Medical Associ ation'. These slightly amended resolutions are summarised in Figure 5.1.1
First meeting of the amalgamated societies The first Council meeting, held on 24 October 1919, was as before amalgamation chaired by Rolleston, with 31 individuals (including Sir William Broadbent, Mr AE [later Lord] Webb-Johnson, and Mr HS Wellcome)2 present. After tabling an amend ment, these six resolutions were adopted, the alteration of no. 2 by the Executive Committee of the FM (later ratified at a General meeting on 19 February 1920) being:
The General Council of the Fellowship of Medicine and Post-Graduate Medical Association shall be constituted by the amalgamation of the Council of the Post-Graduate Medical Association with that of the Fellowship of Medicine.
