General Information Regarding the Survey of a Medical School by Representatives of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, American Medical Association and the Executive Council of the Association of American Medical Colleges,, January 26, 1959

The collection includes documents related to various editions of the Fundamentals of Clinical Hematology; U.Va. Class of 1944 and School of Medicine Class of 1946 reunions; letters and Thorup's notes concerning his 1959 visits to medical schools and hospitals in London, Utrecht and Groningan in the Netherlands, Uppsala and Goteborg in Sweden, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Oslo, and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and consequently letters related to summer exchanges at schools abroad in 1960 through 1964; letters and notes concerning his 1972 visits to schools in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; letters received during 1958-59 at Oxford; and talks and papers related to pharmacologic anticoagulants, fibrinolysis, pulmonary embolism, the start of the University of Arizona Medical School, porphyrias, catalase, hemostasis, community medicine; and papers and schedules related to classes taught at U.Va. with James Childress on ethics and public policy in health care, plagues, and AIDS. The collection includes documents related to University of Virginia self-studies and visits to special libraries to obtain information and reprints concerning Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson's thinking on education and medicine.