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General Hospital in California. Aware of the shortage of family physicians in rural communities,
Burket returned to Kingman and opened his medical practice which he ran for thirty-three years.
Burket became a member of the Kansas chapter of the AAGP, the Kansas Academy of General
Practice (KAGP), a year after it was formed in 1948. He served as the fifth KAGP President from
1953-1954 before heading to Boston on a fellowship from Harvard. He completed his postgraduate
surgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1956. As president of the KAGP, Burket was
selected for a national committee of the AAGP which introduced him to the political side of family
medicine and he soon had the so-called “political bug.” After much persuasion from KAGP founder
Clyde Miller, Burket ran for the AAGP Board of Directors. Because Burket supported the inclusion
of general practice as a specialty, strong opposition emerged from GPs who were unwilling to
relinquish their surgical rights. Burket won by one vote in 1964, serving as a board member until
1966 and as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1966 to 1967. He became the president of the
Kansas Medical Society during that span as well in 1965. After his stint as Chairman, Burket became
the AAGP President, serving 1968-1969, and remained exceedingly interested in the education of
future physicians. As chairman and president, Burket was involved in applying to the American
Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) to make Family Practice the newest specialty. The third
application was successful in 1969 approving the American Board of Family Practice (now
Medicine) as the nation’s twentieth medical specialty board. He was also essential in changing the
association’s title to American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), which became official in
1971. Burket then served on the ABFP Board of Directors from 1969-1977, including a period as its
president from 1975-1977. At the end of his illustrious career, Burket was a full-time professor for
the University of Kansas Medical Center for an eight year span between 1973 and 1981 before
retiring to his hometown of Kingman.
The George E. Burket, Jr., M.D. Collection consists of articles and publications about Dr. Burket, his
Academy service, and family medicine at the KU Medical Center; addresses, speeches, and
presentations; correspondence; meeting programs and invitations; newspaper clippings; certificates
and awards; and biographical information about Dr. Burket. One notable file contains a handwritten
list of Preceptors from K.U. Medical Center, dated 1950-1966, 1969, 1972.
Cain, Jeffrey J., M.D. (1959- )
1988-2010
3 boxes – See also: Audio-Visual Collection; Museum Collection; and Slide Collection
Born in 1959 and raised in the town of Sherwood, Oregon (where he grew up in a home formerly
owned by Dr. Thomas L. Stern of the AAFP), Jeffrey J. Cain, M.D. graduated magna cum laude
from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and
chemistry and received his medical degree from the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland,
Oregon in 1985. He completed his Family Medicine residency at the Mercy Family Medicine
Residency program in Denver, Colorado, where he served as chief resident from 1988 to 1989.
Presently, he serves as Chief of Family Medicine at The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado.
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