title: Homage to Atlantic City.
abstract: In this article, I reflect on the unique value for the societies of academic internal medicine of their annual spring meetings that were held in Atlantic City for two generations prior to 1977 and consider whether lessons remain from those past experiences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA. lloydsmith@aol.com
authors.forename: Lloyd H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009515:New Jersey; D012955:Societies, Medical