In 1941 when a delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates called for a certifying board in general practice, it was not yet time for this idea. In fact, 28 years would pass before the twentieth primary specialty board would be approved.
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyidentify.html

1947 The Davis-Truman Special Committee of the American Medical Association (AMA) studied conditions of general practice; this was just the first of several committees that would examine various aspects of the issue over the next 20 years; ABGP holds first meeting; 1948-1st residency programs in general practice were developed; Kentucky Chapter holds its first meeting (called Kentucky Academy of General Practitioners)
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyidentify.html http://www.kafp.org/x2678.html

Kentucky Legislature acted on recommendation from Governor A.B. Chandler to create a medical school at the University of Kentucky.

May 1956 UK Board of Trustees authorizes establishment of medical center to include: medicine, dentistry, nursing, student health, medical library and university hospital.

University of Kentucky College of Medicine begins under direction of its founding Dean: Dr. William Willard (1956-1965) (Source: “A Medical School is Born”)
 

In 1948 residencies in general practice began to develop, and pilot residencies in family practice were set up in 1959; 1959-1st pilot family practice residency programs began and KAGP office is in Louisville
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyidentify.html

UK College of Medicine 1st medical class (40 students); becomes 86th medical school in the United States and one of 40 new schools developed since WWII.
(Source: “A Medical School is Born”)
 

Faculty teaching at UKCOM includes notable physicians such as:
        Dr. Nicholas Pisacano: The American Board of Family

        Practice (ABFP) established the Pisacano Leadership

        Foundation in 1990-91 to honor Nicholas J. Pisacano, M.D.,

        founder and first executive director of the ABFP, Lexington,

        KY

        Dr. Claire Louise Caudill: Dr. Caudill was instrumental in       

        bringing improved healthcare to Morehead with the start of St.

        Claire Regional Medical Center
         www.st-claire.org/Site/Physicians%20Corner/beginnings1.html

First Department of Community Medicine ever offered in a medical school started under direction of Dr. Kurt Deuschle (1960-1968) who was selected by the college’s Dean, Dr. William Williard. (Source: “A Medical School is Born”)

By the 1960s, the general public was also becoming aware of what this specialization meant to them as patients. It was increasingly difficult to find a physician to be a continuous, comprehensive provider of medical care.
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyidentify.html

By 1965, after repeatedly voting down resolutions to create a certifying board, the Congress of Delegates of the Academy voted to authorize application for a certifying board. Once committees delineated the core content for the residency curriculum and the “Special Requirements for Residency Training in Family Practice,” the stage was set.
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyidentify.html

The graduate education of physicians: report of the Citizens Commission on Graduate Medical Education (Millis Commission)

Meeting the challenge of family practice: report of the American Medical Association. Ad Hoc Committee on Education for Family Practice (Willard Committee).

Health is a community affair: report of the National Commission on Community Health Services (Folsom Commission).

All called for a new medical specialty of family practice to meet people’s perceived needs in a fragmented healthcare system
http://www.futurefamilymed.org/PreBuilt/5 & the slides from “1. FFM Background”

The 1966 Report of the Citizens Commission on Graduate Medical Education, entitled “The Graduate Education of Physicians” and commonly called the Millis Report, emphasized the fragmentation in patient care that was occurring. To maintain their skills and knowledge, physicians were being trained to care for only a portion of a patient’s health. Few were being trained for comprehensive and ongoing care.
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyidentify.html

Finally, following approval by the Liaison Committee for Specialty Boards, the Advisory Board for Medical Specialties, and the AMA Council on Medical Education, the American Board of Family Practice, Inc. (ABFP) was incorporated on February 8, 1969.
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyidentify.html;

AMA recognizes family practice as a specialty http://www.kafp.org/x2678.html;

ABFP is incorporated with Dr. Nicholas Piscano as founder and executive director-first meeting held in Lexington, Kentucky. http://www.aafp.org/fpr/970100fr/4.html

Within a few months of the approval for the American Board of Family Practice, 20 residency programs had been approved by the AMA Council on Medical Education. These programs had met the “Special Requirements for Residency Training in Family Practice” that had been approved in December 1968. These “essentials,” as they were commonly known, described a three-year program that covered family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, and community medicine. This later was considered to be one of the unique components of family practice.
http://www.afprd.org/afprdtext/historyspecialty.html;

1969 58,000 General Practitioners & 0 Family Physicians

2000 15,000 General Practitioners & 70,000 Family Physicians
http://www.futurefamilymed.org/x19624.html & the slides from “1. FFM Background”

Trover Foundation Family Practice Residency Program, Madisonville begins; first of its kind in Kentucky (http://www.mc.uky.edu/RuralHealth/recent/WhitePaper.pdf, page 5)

Department of Family Practice receives full accreditation for its family practice residency at UK and graduates its first class of 4 residents; since then we have had 196 graduates. (Source: Janice Thomas, Residency Program Coordinator)

At the University of Kentucky, our family practice program, in conjunction with the ABFP, developed and pioneered the nations’ first Accelerated Residency Program (Source: Janice Thomas, Residency Program Coordinator  & www.mc.uky.edu/familypractice/pr/accelerated_residencies.html)
 

The East Kentucky Family Practice Residency Program (housed at the University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health, Hazard) begins accepting residency applicants
(http://www.mc.uky.edu/RuralHealth/recent/WhitePaper.pdf, pg. 5)

Dr. Samuel Matheny endowed the “Dr. C. Louise Caudill Chair of Family Medicine”

Department of Family Practice receives full accreditation to offer a Sports Fellowship program [Janice Thomas]

2000 University of Kentucky Rural Family Practice Residency, Morehead receives full accreditation; the first residents arrive in 2001 with graduates expected in 2004
(http://www.mc.uky.edu/RuralHealth/recent/WhitePaper.pdf, page 6 & Janice Thomas, Residency Program Coordinator)

Dr. Samuel Matheny named Dr. Nicholas J. Pisacano Chair of Family Medicine