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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Trainees' Newsletter


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 RCOG/A19

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Trainees' Newsletter

Date(s): 1993-1999

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 boxes

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The first 'Candidates' Newsletter' was produced in 1993; in December 1996 it was renamed the 'Trainees Newsletter'. Production of the Newsletter was suspended in 1999.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This series contains quarterly newsletters; there are only two for 1999 when the newsletter was discontinued. The newsletter gave details about College activites, working party reports and information about the Membership examination. It also listed College appointments, and meetings and courses that might have been of interest to trainees available at the RCOG and externally. A large quantity of circulars were distributed with each newsletter, advertising meetings, RCOG publications and Trainees Committee issues. In addition press releases, working party reports and RCOG guidelines were included in the mailing.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

An alphabetical list of founder Members is available from the College Archivist. This is list has been copied from the first Annual Report 1929-1930 and there is also a copy from the fifth Annual Report 1934.

The College Archives holds card indexes of deceased and living MRCOG holders between 1929 and 1998. The indexes note the date of admission to the MRCOG

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Records were appraised in July 2008 and most of the original series destroyed or removed to current Archives departmental reference files.

Accruals:

No further accruals expected.

Archival history:

The records of the committee have been transferred on an ad hoc basis.

Immediate source of acquisition:

These records have been removed from the President's file on the Court of Patrons to create this series.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCOG catalogue and edited by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Medical training | Vocational training | Training
Newsletters | Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

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