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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Medical Curriculum Sub-committee


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 M49

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Medical Curriculum Sub-committee

Date(s): 1954

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Council of the RCOG convened the sub-committee under the chairmanship of Mr V Lack in March 1955 at the request of the General Medical Council in December 1954. The committee's remit was to comment on the General Medical Council Recommendations Committee as to the medical curriculum of 1947. The sub-committee concluded: 1) The purpose of the medical curriculum should be to train General Practitioners. 2) The medical curriculum should be shortened. 3) No reduction of time in the training of Midwifery should be allowed.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence of the RCOG sub-committee relating to the medical curriculum, 1954.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown. It is likely that they came from the College Secretary's Office.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

RCOG Archives: A minute book, 1955, containing minutes of the sub-committee to consider the regulations of the General Medical Council in relation to the medical curriculum 1947 (Ref: T12).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Gynaecology | Medical sciences
Medical education | Higher science education
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Obstetrics | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Curriculum

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists x British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | Medical Curriculum Sub-committee

Places