Happy second birthday to the "Purple Book".
In August 1985 the one-year Council of TY Program Directors of the Association for Hospital Medical Education (AHME) published its first directory of TY residencies--the "Purple Book". The directory evolved out of the perceived need to uniform specialty program directors of the diversity of the TY programs, to better guide their future trainees. Dr Tupper has written an account of how the Council and the Purple Book came to be.
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