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{{Short description|International medical fraternity}}{{More footnotes needed|date=January 2024}}{{About|the national medical fraternity|the unrelated national pharmacy fraternity originally called Phi Chi, but later renamed|Phi Delta Chi}}
{{Infobox Fraternity
| name = Phi Chi
| letters = {{lang|grc|ΦΧ}}
| crest = Phi chi emblem.jpg
| image_size = 170px
| founded = {{start date and age|March 31, 1889}}
| birthplace = [[University of Vermont College of Medicine]]
| affiliation = Independent
| former_affiliation = PFA
| status = Active
| type = Professional fraternity
| emphasis = [[Medicine]]
| motto = {{lang|grc|Φθνομεν Χραισμειν}} ''Phthomen Chraismein'' First to Serve
| member badge = [[File:Phi Chi badge.png|90px]]
| colors = {{color box|#B5B35C}} [[Olive (color)#Olive green|Olive green]] and {{color box|#FFFFFF}} [[white]]
| symbol = Adult [[Tiger Beetle]] (''Cicindela patruela''), Doodlebug
| flower = [[Lily of the Valley]]
| publication = ''The Chronicles''; formerly ''The Quarterly''
| chapters = 16
| scope = International
| address = 2039 Ridgeview Drive
| city = [[Floyds Knobs, Indiana|Floyds Knobs]]
| state = [[Indiana]]
| ZIP code = 47119
| country = United States
| homepage = [http://www.phichimed.org/ www.phichimed.org]
| footnotes =
}}

'''Phi Chi''' ('''{{lang|grc|ΦΧ}}''') is an international co-ed medical fraternity.. Phi Chi formed from the 1905 merging of two professional medical fraternities bearing the same name. [[Phi Chi Society]] (Phi Chi East) was founded in 1889, at the [[University of Vermont College of Medicine|University of Vermont]] in [[Burlington, Vermont]]. Phi Chi Medical Fraternity (Phi Chi South) was founded in 1894, at the [[Louisville Medical College]] in [[Louisville, Kentucky]]. Phi Chi has grown to include chapters in five countries. It is a former member of the [[Professional Fraternity Association]].

== History ==

===Phi Chi Society of the East===
{{main|Phi Chi Society}}
===Phi Chi Medical Fraternity of the South===
[[File:Alpha1895south.jpg|left|thumb|''Alpha'' (Southern), Louisville, Kentucky, 1895]]“October 26, 1894, at four o’clock, p.m., there assembled in the office of Doctor Clinton Kelly” of the faculty of the [[Louisville Medical College]], “A. Harris Kelly, Samuel T. McClung, G. Fowler Border, Joseph N. Powers, George E. Gavin, Charles W. Hibbitt, and Linn L. Kennedy (all of whom became members of ''Alpha'' of the Southern Fraternity; now ''Alpha Alpha'') to organize a fraternity.” The first members of the Southern Fraternity consisted of the previously mentioned as well as Carey A. Gray and Walker B. Gossett.

On November 5, 1894, a committee was appointed to draft a constitution and not until November 17, were the first officers elected: Presiding Senior, McClung; Presiding Junior, Gossett; Secretary, Kennedy, and Powers, Treasurer (Judge Advocate and the minor officers had not been provided for). Wedding, Chapman, and Shacklett were elected to membership and included with Gossett and Gray in the charter listing of members. The First Regular Meeting was held on Saturday, December 8, 1894. On December 29, 1894, D.A. Garrison, O. K. Harris, E. Rea Norris, and A.P. Campbell were to complete the charter members.

''Beta'' and ''Gamma'' chapters were installed in December 1896. On February 26, 1897, the first Grand Chapter Convention of Southern Phi Chi chapters (''Alpha, Beta, Gamma,'' and ''Delta'') was called; this date later became Founder's Day.

The first volume of ''The Phi Chi Quarterly'', the name of the official fraternal publication, was published on April 1, 1904; its name was changed to ''The Phi Chi Chronicles'' in 1989.

===Phi Chi Medical Fraternity===
On March 5, 1905, Phi Chi Medical Fraternity (Southern Phi Chi) and Phi Chi Society (Eastern Phi Chi) were joined in Baltimore, Maryland, making Phi Chi the largest medical fraternity in America. Chapter names that conflicted during the joining were resolved by allowing the older chapter to retain its single name and the second chapter to have its name duplicated (''Alpha'', University of Vermont, 1889; ''Alpha Alpha'', Louisville Medical College, 1894).

On July 1, 1910, the first history of Phi Chi was published. In 1915, the first ''Phi Chi Directory'' was published with 37 active chapters (some chapters had been consolidated) and 6,790 initiated members. 1922 saw the merger of [[Pi Mu Honor Society]] and Phi Chi, as well as the chartering of the Beta Mu chapter at [[McGill University]], Phi Chi's first Canadian Chapter, on May 15.

In December 1925, the 24th Grand Chapter Convention was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 1927, the Student Loan Fund was created to provide emergency loans for members in need; it was run by the Phi Chi Welfare Association after its incorporation in 1949.

On February 21, 1948, [[Phi Alpha Gamma]] and Phi Chi merged. On February 26, 1960, the fraternity became international with the chartering of the ''Omega chapter'' at [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] in [[Mexico City, Mexico]]. On May 21, 1962, ΥΒ chapter was chartered at [[University of Puerto Rico]] in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]].

At the XL Grand Chapter Convention in 1973, women medical students were allowed membership. ''Alpha Alpha'' and ''Alpha Beta'' alumni chapters are chartered in September 1989.

== Chapters ==
{{main|List of Phi Chi chapters}}

[[Phi Chi Society|Phi Chi]] East was founded in 1889. Phi Chi South was formed in 1894. When the two fraternities combined in 1905, when the name of two chapters conflicted, the chapter with precedence would retain the single letter, and the chapter following shall duplicate its name, such as ''Alpha (''1889), [[University of Vermont]], and ''Alpha'' of Louisville (1894), with the latter becoming ''Alpha Alpha''.

== Notable members ==
{{Mem/fstart
|ilist =
[[File:Thomas Dale Alford, Sr.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Thomas Alford]]
[[File:US Army MG Spurgeon Neel.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Major General Spurgeon H. Neel Jr.]]
[[File:Isidor Ravdin.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Major General I.S. Ravdin]]
[[File:Donald Bertrand Tresidder.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Donald Tresidder]]
|alist=
{{Mem/f|name=[[Irvin Abell]] |chapter=AA 1897 |nota=
-President [[American Medical Association]] 1938 
-President [[American College of Surgeons]] 
-President Southeastern Surgical Association 
-President Kentucky State Medical Association 
-Named by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|President Roosevelt]] as chairman of the national committee to co-operate with the Defense Commission on Public Health in 1940
|ref= }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Dale Alford]] |chapter=ΛΡ 1939 |nota=
-86th and 87th [[US Congress]] Representative for [[Arkansas]] 
-Keynote speaker for the US as the 51st Inter-Parliamentary Conference in [[Brasília]], Brasil, Appointed by [[John F. Kennedy]]
|ref=<ref name="Alford">{{cite web |url=http://www.pcahs.org/pcaolr/database/acdpcd-p/p6.htm |title=An Arkansas Connection |access-date=2010-10-22}}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Edward R. Annis]] |chapter=EX 1938 |nota=
-117th President [[American Medical Association]] 1963 
-President [[World Medical Association]] 1963 
-Director of the [[Chamber of Commerce of the United States]] 1969-1975
|ref=<ref name="Annis">{{cite web |url=http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-history/illustrated-highlights/1961-1979.shtml |title=AMA - 1961 to 1979 |access-date=2010-10-22}}</ref><ref name="Annis2">{{cite book |year=1976 |title=Political Profiles |chapter=The Kennedy Years |volume=3 |pages=12–14 |last=Lichtenstein |first=Nelson |publisher=New York: Facts on File, Inc. }}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[David M. Bosworth]] |chapter=A 1921 |nota=
-[[Bosworth fracture]] named in his honor 
-Awarded membership of [[Journal of Orthopaedic Science|Japanese Orthopaedic Association]] 
-Only foreign recipient of the [[Order of the Sacred Treasure|Second Order of the Sacred Treasure]] 1968
|ref=<ref name="Bosworth">{{cite journal |date=Apr 1980 |title=David Marsh Bosworth, 1897-1979. |journal=J Bone Joint Surg Am |volume=62 |issue=3 |page=488 |pmid=6988433 |url=https://journals.lww.com/jbjsjournal/citation/1980/62030/david_marsh_bosworth,_1897_1979_.25.aspx |access-date=2025-04-16 |doi=10.2106/00004623-198062030-00025 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
}}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Louis Jermain]] |chapter=EX 1921 |nota=
-First Dean [[Medical College of Wisconsin|Marquette University School of Medicine]] |ref=<ref name="Jermain">{{cite journal |url=http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/_WMS/publications/wmj/issues/wmj_v103n7/Cerletty2.pdf |title=Our heritage: Medical education in Milwaukee |last=Cerletty |first=J.M. M.D. |journal=Wisconsin Medical Journal |year=2004 |volume=103 |issue=7 |pages=28–32 |pmid=15696829 |access-date=2010-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727123429/http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/_WMS/publications/wmj/issues/wmj_v103n7/Cerletty2.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Hiram W. Kostmayer]] |chapter=O 1909 |nota=
-1942-1945 Dean [[Tulane School of Medicine]] 
-Dean, Post-graduate School of Medicine, 1933-37, Tulane
|ref=<ref name="Kostmayer">{{cite web |url=http://tulane.edu/alumni/upload/potpourri.pdf |title=POTPOURRI |access-date=2010-10-19}}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[John McDonald (academic)|John McDonald]] |chapter=O 1955 |nota=
-First Chancellor of the [[Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport|Louisiana State University Medical School, Shreveport]], LA 
-1965-2000 Chancellor of [[Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans|New Orleans Medical Center]] 
-Founding member of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics 
-Founding member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 
-President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 
-2002 55th Recipient of the Roswell Park Medal
|ref=<ref name="Mcdonald">{{cite web |url=http://www.lsusystem.edu/userfiles/file/minutes/minutes_dec2008.pdf |title=Regular Board Meeting |page=3 |date=December 4, 2008 |access-date=2010-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125193730/http://lsusystem.edu/userfiles/file/minutes/minutes_dec2008.pdf |archive-date=November 25, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Mcdonald2">{{cite web |url=http://johncmcdonald.org/ |title=John C. McDonald, M.D. |access-date=2010-10-19}}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Stuart McGuire]] |chapter=ΘΗ 1891 Beta of [[Pi Mu Honor Society]] |nota=
-1905-1914 President of the University College of Medicine 
-1914-1925 President of [[Medical College of Virginia]]
|ref=<ref name="Mcguire2">{{cite web |url=http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2006_08/uvaBook/tei/b004865476.xml;chunk.id=d13 |title=Stuart McGuire |access-date=2010-10-19}}</ref><ref name="Mcguire">{{cite web |url=http://www.surgery.vcu.edu/about/history.html |title=The History of the Department of Surgery |last= Neifeld |first= James P. M.D., F.A.C.S.|access-date=2010-10-19}}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Spurgeon Neel]] |chapter=AB 1942 |nota=
-[[Major General]] [[United States Army|US Army]] 
-Deputy Surgeon General 1969-1973 
-First Commanding General of the [[U.S. Army Health Services Command]]
|ref=<ref name="Neel">{{cite web |url=http://143.84.107.69/orgnztnlhistories/hlthsrvcscmmnd/neel.pdf |title=Biosketch of Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., Major General, USA Retired |publisher=[[U.S. Army Medical Department]] Office of Medical History |access-date=2010-09-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319190141/http://143.84.107.69/orgnztnlhistories/hlthsrvcscmmnd/neel.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-19 }}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Kenneth Dew Orr]] |chapter=P 1940 |nota=
-[[Major General]] [[United States Army|US Army]]
|ref=<ref name="Orr">{{cite web |url=http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/WORLD-OBITS/2005-05/1115681919 |title=WORLD-OBITS-L ORR; KENNETH DEW |work=RootsWeb|access-date=2010-10-19}}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Isidor S. Ravdin]] |chapter=M 1918 |nota=
-1956 retired as a [[Major general (United States)|major general]] in the Medical Corps, the first person on non-active military service appointed major general
|ref=<ref name="Ravdin">{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/ravdin.pdf |title=Guide to the I.S. (Isidor Schwaner) Ravdin, 1894 - 1972, Papers, 1912 - 1972 |work=University of Pennsylvania, The University Archives and Records Center |date=January 1995 |access-date=2010-10-19}}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[Donald Tresidder]] |chapter=ΣΥ 1927 |nota=
-President [[Stanford University]] 1943-1948 
-Established [[Stanford Research Institute]] 
-Tresidder Peak in [[Yosemite National Park]] is named for him |ref=<ref name="Tresidder">{{cite journal |url=http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/92/920811Arc2127.html |title=New book recounts life of Stanford's fourth president |journal= Stanford News Service |date=August 11, 1992 |access-date=2010-10-19}}</ref> }}
{{Mem/f|name=[[A. Murat Willis]] |chapter=ΘΗ 1904 Member of [[Pi Mu Honor Society]] |nota=
-President and founder of Johnston-Willis Hospital, Virginia 
-President of the Richmond Academy of Medicine |ref=<ref name="Willis">{{cite web |url=http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2006_08/uvaBook/tei/b004865476.xml;chunk.id=d240 |title=History of Virginia |access-date=2010-10-22}}</ref> }}

}}

== See also ==
* [[Professional fraternities and sororities]]
* [[List of medical schools in the United States]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book |editor1-first=William |editor1-last=Baird |title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSErAAAAYAAJ |edition=8th |year=1915 |publisher=The College Fraternity Publishing Co. |location=New York }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.phichimed.org |title=Phi Chi Medical Fraternity}}
* {{cite book |last=Cannon |first=Daniel H. |title=The History of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc. Centennial Edition 1889-1989 |publisher=Phi Chi Quarterly Office |year=1989}}
* Cannon, Daniel H. (2005). ''Phi Chi Chronicles, vol. 11''. Phi Chi Quarterly Office.
* Cannon Daniel H. (2009), ''Phi Chi Chronicles, vol. 13''. Phi Chi Quarterly Office.
==External links==
* [http://www.phichimed.org/ Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, Inc. National Page]

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