[History of the National Council of the Order of Doctors (1845-1945)].

The origin of the French Medical Authority ("Conseil de l'Ordre des Médecins") can be dated back to the second half of the 19th century when the idea of medical councils was proposed. The legal project of a French Medical Authority dates from 1923 but it was only in 1928 that the legal basis was created after the "Academie de Medecine" proposals. After the period of the Occupation "l'Ordre des Médecins" was definitively created in 1944 and the first professional code of ethics was edited in 1947 as it was dedicated to the medical practitioners who had been victims of the World War 2.