Abstract
A year has passed since the last meeting here in Chicago, and many changes have occurred. In December 1941 the personnel in the Medical Department of the Army consisted of 11,384 in the Medical Corps, 3,117 in the Dental Corps, 700 in the Veterinary Corps, 226 in the Sanitary Corps and 1,441 in the Medical Administrative Corps. Those were dark days. The Army was being built up rapidly, and the Medical Department was not keeping up. In fact, in May of last year we were under strength 7,000 Medical Corps officers. Early in the spring it was realized that something had to be done in order to secure medical officers. Precedence was broken, recruiting boards were set up in each state and physicians were actually commissioned on the spot. Conditions started to improve in June, and when 1942 came to a close we had 35,594 medical officers on duty, only
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