---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 151902"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "151902"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/151902"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 1519 — National Fund for Medical Education"
---

# §151902. Purposes


The purposes of the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) are to raise from private sources, administer, and disperse funds for medical education, and in carrying out those purposes, to take other appropriate action to promote—

- (1) the interpretation of the needs of medical education to the American public;
- (2) the encouragement of the growth, development, and advancement of constantly improving standards and methods in the education and training of all medical personnel in the United States; and
- (3) the preservation of academic freedom in the institutions of medical education.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1408.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 151902 | 36:603. | Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1036, § 3, 68 Stat. 892. |

The words “in carrying out those purposes” are substituted for “in connection therewith” for clarity. In clause (2), the word “personnel” is substituted for “manpower” to use a word that is gender-neutral.