Legacy
The National Library of Medicine maintains a selection of Burch's works. The Tulane University History of Medicine Society also maintains selected information.
Burch authored or co-authored 851 journal articles during his tenure at Tulane University. His publications in the Journal of the American Medical Association can be found on-line.
Additional honors include the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951 and the AMA Scientific Achievement Award in 1986.
The Tulane University School of Medicine graduating class of 1974, in association with former awardees of the Tulane's "Order of the Gold-Tipped Stethoscope", compiled a small red book, "The Quotations of Chairman George", in his honor.
The Smithsonian Institution administers the George E. Burch Fellowship in Theoretical Medicine and Affiliated Sciences.
The Matas Library of Tulane University School of Medicine maintains a collection of Burch's artifacts from his father's rural medical practice.
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