Important History

Question 1

Who is the first woman to receive a DO degree?

Answer 1

Jeanette Bolles

Question 2

Why do we have to remember the name WIlliam Budd?

Answer 2

Because he figured out that Cholera came from a specific well in Bristol.

Question 3

Who is the past DO Surgeon General of the Army that we have to know?

Answer 3

Lieutenant General Ronald R Blank, DO

(His last name is blank, he was in the army, idk there is a mnemonic there somewhere)

Question 4

When did AT Still return to the farm and have all of his kids die?

Answer 4

1864

Question 5

Who isolated Anthrax?

Answer 5

Robert Koch

(This dude was actually a badass of microbiology)

Question 6

When did the “California Incident” occur?

Answer 6

1961

Question 7

When did the first state legally licence DO’s?

What state was it?

Answer 7

1896

Vermont

Question 8

Who was the first minority AOA president?

Answer 8

Marcelino Oliva

Question 9

When did the last state to license DO’s do so?

What was the last state to license DO’s?

Answer 9

1973

Mississippi

Question 10

When was the Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery established?

(KCU precursor)

Answer 10

1916

Question 11

When were DO’s accepted as equal to MD’s in the millitary?

Answer 11

1963

Question 12

Who is the Father of Antiseptic Surgery?

Answer 12

Joseph Lister

Question 13

Who was the first female dean of a medical college?

Answer 13

Barbara Ross-Lee DO

Question 14

Who was William G Anderson?

Answer 14

Big physician in the civil rights movement. Works at AT Still now.

Question 15

What year did the first Osteopathic School open?

Answer 15

1892

American School of Osteopathy

Question 16

Who “invented” handwashing in clinics?

Answer 16

Ingaz Semmelweiss

Question 17

When was the Banner of Osteopathy “flung to the breeze?”

Answer 17

June 22 1874

Question 18

What year did the following things happen:

AT Still thrown out of the church

AT Still presents his ideas to Baker University

First recorded Osteopathic Treatment in Macon Missouri

Answer 18

1874

(Same as the banner, so easy to remember)

Question 19

What were AT Still’s parents named?

Answer 19

Abraham and Martha

Question 20

What female DO worked in histology and postulated the connective tissue model of somatic dysfunction?

Answer 20

Louisa Burns

(Skin burns)

Question 21

What did John Snow know?

Answer 21

He knew where a cholera outbreak came from in London, because he traced it using epidemiology.

Question 22

When were DO’s allowed to serve in the military?

When were DO’s accepted as equal to MD’s?

When were DO’s drafted as medical officers?

Answer 22

1957

1963

1967

(These are the big military dates, just remember 7, 3, 7.)