IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 M1
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Macafee Ad Hoc Committee on Training for the Specialty
Date(s): 1959-1967
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
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 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:
Not known; probably passed to/left at the College by Professor Macafee.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
A microfilm copy of the minute book at M1M/1 is held by RCOG Archives at MR/3.
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
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