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Branding Asklepios and the Traditional and Variant Serpent Symbol Display Among Health Professional Schools in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Branding Asklepios and the Traditional and Variant Serpent Symbol Display Among Health Professional Schools in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada: A Cross-Sectional Survey

This symbol substitution was accelerated by adoption of the caduceus as an insigne for noncombatant officers of the US Army Medical Corps in 1902 [4] despite the Corps' use of the asklepian since 1818 [5]. Le caducée has been used to describe the single serpent entwining fascicles [6] and the asklepian has been misnamed “the medical caduceus” [1,7]. The US error, explained in 1917 [5], has been discussed in at least 30 articles for a century [8].

Claus Hamann, MaryKate Martelon

JMIR Med Educ 2016;2(1):e6