Family Medicine History Center Calls for Wartime Memories

The Center for the History of Family Medicine, or CHFM, is asking AAFP members and other family physicians to send in their wartime memorabilia.

The CHFM, which is the only resource center devoted exclusively to preserving the collection, conservation, exhibition and study of material relating to the history of family medicine in the United States, is working on a traveling exhibit titled "Family Physicians at War: A Tribute." The center, which is administered by the AAFP Foundation and located in the AAFP headquarters building in Leawood, Kan., is looking for letters, diaries, journals, written or oral memories, and related items from general practitioners and family physicians who served during wartime, particularly during the period encompassing World War II through the war in Iraq.

"GPs and FPs have served with honor in every major conflict that this country has been involved in," said Don Ivey, CHFM manager. "We're looking for that next great untold war story, the story of GPs and FPs at war."

For more information or to donate materials, send an e-mail; chfm@aafp.org call (800) 274-2237, Ext. 4420 or 4422; or fax (913) 906-6095.