The constituent session of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. The third day (December 22 1944)

Abstract

The article considers the third day of the Constituent Session of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (the USSR AMS) held on December 22, 1944. In the beginning, the Presidium of the Academy was elected. After the elections, the full members of the AMS - representatives of various medical specialties spoke. Each of them presented one's vision of development of medicine. Among speakers were A. V. Palladin, V. P. Osipov, M. S. Malinovsky, F. G. Krotkov, V. F. Zelenin, N. I. Grashchenkov, V. P. Filatov, Ya. O. Parnas, V. V. Parin, P. G. Sergiev and N. N. Burdenko. The most informative reports on the tasks of development of the AMS in the forthcoming future were made by V. V. Parin and N. N. Burdenko. The main content of this development was supposed to support synthesis of applied and fundamental knowledge in the AMS and the connection of scientific achievements and without practice. The process of establishment of the USSR AMS lasted exactly 2 years and was finalized this very day. The seventy-year history of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences the RAMS has begun.