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Sources Guide list
Sources Guide: Medical Education
(not including student notebooks, etc)
Personal papers
Societies and Associations
Other collections
RAMC
Wellcome archives
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Personal papers
Charles Enrique DENT (1911-1976) PP/CED
Reports and correspondence on the administration of undergraduate teaching at University College Hospital Medical School, 1950-76
Sir Richard DOLL (1912-2005 ) PP/DOL
Files from Doll's period as Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, 1969-79
Prof Hans GRÜNEBERG (1907-1982) PP/GRU
Significant amount of material in his correspondence relating to his involvement in the teaching and examining of genetics within the medical curriculum, c.1940s-70s
Noel Gordon HARRIS (1897-1963) PP/NGH
Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc. from the University of London Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Medicine, 1937-40; Middlesex Hospital, Department of Psychological Medicine and Medical School 1938-59; Royal Medico-Psychological Association Education Committee, 1958-9, and Subcommittee on Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry, 1958-9; Association for the Study of Medical
Education 1961-3
Sir Harold Perceval HIMSWORTH (1905-1993) PP/HPH/F
Material relating to wartime reforms to medical education, 1940-3, with related material 1914-68
Donald HUNTER (1898-1977) PP/HUN
Lists of students, reading lists and correspondence with students attending postgraduate courses in medicine at the London Hospital, 1946-60
Sir Thomas LEWIS (1881-1945) PP/LEW
Memoranda, correspondence and minutes re the Inter-departmental Committee on Medical Schools (Goodenough Committee), 1942-3
Henry McILWAIN (1912-1992) PP/MCI
Correspondence, syllabi, reports etc. on biochemistry/ neurochemistry education at Chelsea Polytechnic, Institute of Psychiatry and elsewhere, 1940s-80s
Sir John MCMICHAEL (1904-1993) PP/JMM
Material relating to the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, of which he was Director, 1966-71, including evidence to government committees and reports, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, 1948-80, involvement in proposal to amalgamate King's College, St Thomas's and Westminster medical schools, 1973-9, and files on National Association of Clinical Tutors, 1971-2
Maurice PAPPWORTH (1910-1994) PP/MHP
Material relating to medical education, about which Pappworth was extremely critical, 1950s-90s
Dr George White PICKERING (1904-1980) PP/GWP
Papers re his long involvement in medical education, including as Dean of the Oxford Medical School (1956-68) and member of the University Grants Committee (1944-54); also re his book The Challenge to Education (1967) and survey work for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust on the state of medical teaching in Britain in the 1970s, published as Quest for Excellence in Medical
Education (1978)
Edgar Ashworth UNDERWOOD (1899-1980) PP/EAU
Writings and research material on the history of medical education in the 18th and 19th centuries
Charles McMoran WILSON, Lord MORAN (1882-1977) PP/CMW
Papers include: material as Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1920-45; correspondence on the health of medical students and examination papers for various medical schools, 1936-9; papers from the RCP Medical Education Committee 1941-3; correspondence re publication of his paper `The student in irons, 1932, which dealt with the inadequacy of medical teaching methods;
unpublished papers by others c.1920s-40s
Societies and Associations
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF MUSCULOSKELETAL MEDICINE (and one of its predecessor bodies, British Association of Manipulative Medicine) SA/BIM
Records, 1970s–2000, include syllabi, and minutes of the Education subcommittee, 1993–2000
BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (f.1832) SA/BMA
Much general material, such as committee minutes, and files of the Medical Teachers and Research Workers Group, 1948-67; files on the Inter-departmental Committee on Medical Schools (Goodenough Committee), 1919-48 and on American medical education, 1925-46 [The BMA retains the bulk of its archives]
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ORTHODONTICS (f. 1907 ) SA/BSO/6
Committee reports on education, 1922-44
LONDON COMMITTEE OF LICENSED TEACHERS OF ANATOMY (f. 1881) SA/LCA
Set up to deal with the problem of the supply of cadavers to medical schools for the teaching of anatomy.
MEDICAL WOMEN'S FEDERATION (f.1916) SA/MWF
Much material on medical education for women, including access to co-education, postgraduate qualifications, and similar issues, 1860s-1980s
THE 1942 CLUB (f.1942 ) SA/FTC
Minutes and other records of this discussion group, composed of those holding chairs in clinical and paraclinical disciplines, which has had a particular interest in the issues surrounding clinical teaching and academic medicine
PATIENTS’ ASSOCIATION SA/PAT
Material relating to the use of patients for teaching purposes in hospitals, 1970s–90s
ROYAL COMMISSION ON MEDICAL EDUCATION (1965-1968) SA/CME
An almost complete set of the written evidence presented to the Commission and a collection of relevant published papers and reports
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (f.1956) SA/SSM
Some material on the teaching of social medicine, c.1960-1980
SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH/ SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE/ SOCIETY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (1856-1997) SA/SMO
Material relating to the Society's role in postgraduate training and education in public health/community medicine, particularly child health, including committee minutes and correspondence in section D and M.2, evidence and comments to government and other external committees in section L, records of the Society's Teaching Group, 1957-73, and Faculty of Community
Medicine established in 1988, articles in the Society's journal Public Health and (non-Society) published sources in section R
Other collections
Nathaniel Henry ALCOCK (1871-1913) GC/151/1
Small group of papers while Lecturer in Physiology and Vice-Dean at St Mary’s Medical School, 1902-9
Sidney CHAVE (1914-1985) GC/178
Lecture notes relating to various courses in public health and community medicine, 1940s-80s, and files relating to teaching of community/social medicine, 1960s-80s
Dr Stefan CEMBROWICZ: interviews with elderly GPs GP/58
Interviews with Drs Freddie Morgan, formerly Morgenbesser, Oct 2000, and Ivor Ernest Doney, 2004, include material on their medical education
Thomas Renton ELLIOTT (1877-1961) GC/42
Correspondence with T Lewis (q.v.) and others, notes, memoranda and other papers concerning finance and administration of clinical medicine in Medical Department at University College Hospital Medical School, of which Elliott was Director 1929-32
Forrest FULTON (1913-1971) GC/177
Professor of virology; teaching files and lecture notes, committee and administration material , relating to London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and University of London, 1956-70
Sir George GODBER GCB (b.1908) GC/201
Chief Medical Officer, DHSS, DES and Home Office, 1960-73. Miscellaneous papers, 1942-95, including lectures and articles on medical education within the National Health Service
Thomas Jeeves Horder, Lord HORDER of Ashford (1871-1955) GP/31
Several speeches on medical education, 1920s-30s
Peter Karl LEWIN (b. 1935) MS.8369
Autobiographical memoir, 'A Chameleon of Sorts: Autobiographical Vignettes', includes account of his life as a medical student at St Mary’s in the 1950s
REMINISCENCES OF LONDON MEDICAL STUDENTS, 1930s-1950s MS.8593
Letters and personal accounts, 2002-6
DAME JANET VAUGHAN DBE, FRS,FRCP (1899-1993) GC/186
File on the ‘Younger Fellows Club’ of the Royal College of Physicians, 1940-3, includes discussions re post-war medical education
RAMC
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION
Notes and syllabi of 18th century lectures on surgery including at St George’s Hospital and in Edinburgh; records of the Army Medical School/RAM College; papers of professors; lecture notes, correspondence, etc., of officers at the college and of other ranks undergoing training; Sir Norman Talbot’s assessment of the implications of the report of the Royal
Commission.
See under `Army Medical School’, `Training’ and `Surgery’ in Vol. I of the list
Wellcome archives
WELLCOME ARCHIVES: Museum of Medical Science WA/MMS
This was designed for educational purposes, initially in tropical medicine, then more generally in medicine, but later resumed specialisation in tropical medicine. A small amount of records of its activities, 1923-85, survives
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