Macafee Ad Hoc Committee on Training for the Specialty

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M1
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: Macafee Ad Hoc Committee on Training for the Specialty
Date(s)	: 1959-1967
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 7 volumes, 30 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The committee was set up in 1962 by Council under the chairmanship of Professor C H G Macafee to examine and report on trends in the development of obstetrics and gynaecology as a speciality with particular reference to recruitment, teaching research and training in the United Kingdom. It obtained information from undergraduates through a questionnaire and a random sample of personal interviews by the chairman. The committee produced a report to the College in 1966, and the information it amassed was used in the College's submission to the Royal Commission on Medical Education in 1968.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Macafee Committee comprising Committee minutes and papers, 1962-1966; background papers and final report, 1959-1966; minute book of the Committee, signed by the Chairman, 1966-1967.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Not known; probably passed to/left at the College by Professor Macafee.

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds the president's copy of the Macafee report with related correspondence (Ref: A4/13/9); the College's submission to the Royal Commission on Medical Education in 1968 (Ref: A4/13/33).

Publication note:

Description Notes

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