The file contains miscellaneous data for the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee. This includes a ‘General Statement of ideas and problems concerning the making of a physician’ by Everett C. Hughes; a paper given by Professor Hall at a Curriculum Committee meeting; a description of the medical college admissions test; statistics of medical students in Canada, 1953; questions for the Curriculum Committee; ‘On Reading of Medical Literature’, a paper by Alan Gregg; two editions of a newsletter Idiosyncrat (Vol. 11 no. 4 and Vol. II no.3), which was published ‘every now and again’ but the Medical Students of McGill University; a list of suggested readings by the Faculty of Medicine Curriculum Study Committee; a list of Faculty members; terms of reference for the Curriculum Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, 1955; a report on the medical school at Edinborough; an unnamed report card for a surgery course; ‘The Purpose of Medical Education’ by G.W. Pickering, noted in handwriting as ‘excellent’; a ‘Adventure in Pedagogy’ by George E. Miller; extracts from letters received by Dr. Murray Stalker replying to the question ‘in which areas of instruction does the practitioner find newly fledged graduates lacking?’; ‘The place of Anatomy in expanding Medical Curriculum’ by C.P. Martin; a printed excerpt of ‘A Revised Program of Medical Education at John Hopkins’ pages 3-12; and a ‘Special Article Integration of Essential Portions of Specialities in the Major Areas of Medicine’ by J. Wendell Macleod from Canad. M.A.J. May 28 1960 Vol. 82.
The file contains the travel reports for the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee and includes the 53rd Annual Congress on Medical Education and Literature for the American Medical Association; Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges (appraisal of applicants to medical schools) report, 1956; the visit to the medical schools of John Hopkins, Duke and North Carolina Universities; the report on a visit to the medical colleges of the University of Florida at Gainsville, Florida, and the University of Miami at Coral Gablesand, Miami, Florida; the State University of New York College of Medicine curriculum; the report of a visit to the medical faculty of the University of Western Ontario; the visit by D.L. Thomson to the University of British Columbia; the report of a visit to the medical faculty of the University of British Columbia; a curriculum survey of the University of British Columbia; a report on the visit to the medical schools of the Universities of British Columbia and Saskatchewan; discussion of undergraduate clinical teaching; and the undergraduate teaching at Western Reserve University Medical School, Cleveland.
Comprised of 16 folders of correspondence arranged alphabetically by surname about the Quarter Century Celebrations for the Montreal Neurological Institute.
The file contains the working papers related to the Quarter Century Celebration of the Montreal Neurological Institute (October 6th 1959). It includes stipends, drafts, schedules, and attendance lists (confirms, regrets, uncertain).
The file contains the Sub-Committee Reports of the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee including the teaching of specialities; two reports of the basic sciences committee; two interim reports of the sub-committee on student assessment and counselling; the final report of the sub-committee on joint and integrated teaching; the minutes of the meeting of the clinical sub-committee; two reports of the sub-committee on medicine as a social science; a summary of recommendations reached by the clinical sub-committee; discussions of the pre-clinical committee; a resolution ‘Medicine in relation to society’; and a report draft for the curriculum committee, 1956.
The file contains the diary of Wilder Penfield for January 1957 to April 1958. The inside cover is inscribed with “To Daddy, Happy birthday Jan 26th 1957. This is to keep a diary of your trip to India with love, Wilder + Berry”. The diary details Wilder Penfield’s travels to India and surrounding areas such as Thailand. This includes reflections on the event of his birthday, and comments on the local culture, including drawings. To note is that the printed dates of the diary are not used and there are some loose pages.
The file contains documents relating to the use of Anaesthesia at the Montreal Neurological Institute, particularly reports and correspondence to and from Wilder Penfield. This includes reports or correspondence which has been copied for Penfield's notice.
