I am sure that it will be interesting and profitable at the opening of our three days' session to review the changes that have taken place in medical education in America in the last twenty-five years, the result of the effort made by the organized profession of this country, the American Medical Association, to elevate the standards of medical education and place it on a thoroughly sound and satisfactory basis. This whole movement owes its success primarily to the thorough reorganization of the American Medical Association, which in 1901 converted the Association into an effective representative body covering the entire country and the entire medical profession, functioning through a house of delegates which meets annually, and through a board of trustees and executive officers who function throughout the year. To no one man is more credit due for bringing about this great reorganization than to Dr. George H. Simmons, Editor