Educational courses, conferences, and scientific meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 E1-E4
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	: Educational courses, conferences, and scientific meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Date(s)	: 1960-1998
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 17 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The College's first scientific meeting was organised as part of the programme to mark the opening of its new building in Sussex Place in 1960. The Scientific Advisory Committee was appointed to organise future meetings and courses. Museum demonstrations were the responsibility of the Pathology Committee. The Scientific Advisory Committee and the Pathology Committee merged in 1966. In 1968 responsibility for postgraduate symposia and museum demonstrations passed to the newly created Postgraduate Medical Education Committee, and responsibility for scientific meetings passed to the newly created Scientific Programme and Central Congress Committee. In 1973 the Postgraduate Medical Education Committee was renamed the Postgraduate Committee, and became responsible for all meetings and scientific programmes. From October 1974, however, the Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee acquired some responsibility for the initiation of scientific meetings, and became responsible for the revived programme of study groups. From 1981 the Scientific Advisory Committee became primarily responsible for all scientific and educational meetings, but the Postgraduate Committee continued to advise on their organisation.

The Postgraduate Committee was disbanded in 1992. Arrangements for postgraduate education meetings, courses and seminars and for meetings of study groups are now the responsibility of the Postgraduate Medical Education Department of the College. Production of printed proceedings of study groups is the responsibility of the Publications Editor, Administration Department.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of educational courses, conferences, and scientific meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1960-1998, comprising course programmes, lists of participants, abstracts, budget details and papers relating to the intellectual content of the meetings and courses. Courses have been held on such subjects as maternity services, artificial insemination, labour, colposcopy, gynaecological cancer, infertility, pain relief, caesarean section and hormone replacement therapy.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Printed material open. Other records open 20 years after last date on file.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is 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:

The bulk of the papers were transferred to the Archives by the administrative support staff for the various committees responsible for the meetings and courses, and in recent years by the Postgraduate Education Department, which has assumed responsibility for the organisation of meetings and courses in the College. Some of the programmes were transferred at some stage from the College Library. Some of the records relating to joint RCOG/RCR courses in ultrasound are transferred by the Postgraduate Training Department.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists holds International Scientific Meetings (Reference: A13); records of the Postgraduate Medical Education Committee and the Postgraduate Committee (Reference: B8); records of the Pathology Committee, the Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee, and the Scientific Advisory Committee (Reference: B10); Scientific Advisory Committee's files on proposed study groups and workshops on particular subjects (Reference: B10/2/20-21); records of the SAC sub-committee on audio-visual aids, 1968-1979, and later papers of the Postgraduate Education Committee, which took over responsibility for audio-visual equipment and provision of educational material on audio tape in 1979 (Reference: B10/9/2 and B8/9); records of the Scientific Programme and Central Congress Committee (Reference: E6); joint scientific meeting with the RCS on the pelvic floor, 1983 (Reference: E10/3/2); College's correspondence with the Blair Bell Research Society, primarily concerned with the Society's scientific meetings held in the College (Reference: E12); some photographs of study groups and participants of meetings (Reference: PH10).

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Clare Cowling, revised by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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:
November 2002