A long-awaited stamp of approval came to the College of Medical Evangelists (now Loma Linda University) when the American Medical Association Council on Medical Education and Hospitals gave the college an A rating. Correctly answering that this took place in 1922 were random winners Nicholas Frantz, David LeClaire, and Becky Seeman. Please email pr@llu.edu to claim your prize, which must be picked up within 60 days.
Nathan Colwell, secretary of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, had been one of the College of Medical Evangelists’ biggest critics for a number of years before he realized the value of its physician training programs and gave the A rating.
Colwell later said in a letter, “You have done wonderful in your school, and I am proud of you; and while you have not converted me to the Seventh-day Sabbath as yet, you have converted me on practically everything else about your medical work.”
Jumping ahead 40 years to 1962 — to March 30 specifically — the AMA Council on Medical Education once again gave its approval to Loma Linda University, this time for a new program. Which health care profession did this program train students for?
Email the correct answer to pr@llu.edu by midnight Tuesday, October 14, for the chance to be a random winner. One answer per person.