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.

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 correspondence primarily between Theodore Rasmussen and others discussing business of the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee. The focus is on the curriculum, courses, and course schedules for the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, including handwritten notes about schedules and schedules of lectures, demonstrations and laboratory periods. In addition, there is correspondence on the distinction between full- and part-time students; the interest in cross-teaching neurology courses at the Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital; the interest in integrating different disciplines further in courses; the future of Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology; and correspondence with other medical teaching faculties about teaching programs, including a University of Saskatchewan teaching program outline.

The file contains the departmental reports of the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee. This includes reports on or from the departments of Biochemistry, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Health and Social Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Physiology, Radiology, Surgery, Bacteriology, and Anaesthesia. There are several reports on teaching such as hours reported, class accommodations, number of teachers, type of teaching provided to undergraduates, and specifically the teaching of genetics to medical students. In addition, there is a letter discussing the introduction of medical students to the use of a medical library, a letter from Thomas W.M. Cameron to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine about the course in Parasitology given at Macdonald College, and an Intra-departmental Committee report on the curriculum in Pharmacology by K.I. Melville.

The file consists of the minutes of the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee from 1955 to 1958.

The file consists of the Final Report of the Curriculum Revision Committee 1959; revised time tables for the new curriculum and for transitional year, 1959-1960 (confidential do not release to press); and a 1957 report of the curriculum Committee.

The file consists of correspondence and course outlines of the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Medicine.

The file consists of correspondence and course material (outlines, schedules, etc.) of the McGill Teaching Curriculum Commitee for Post Graduates students in the Faculty of Medicine.

The file consists of course outlines from the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery for the McGill Teaching Curriculum Commitee, some of which are annotated by Wilder Penfield.

The file consists of correspondence and documents related to the Surgery Selection Committee of McGill University and the Royal Victoria Hospital. This includes notices of meetings; drafts of memorandum for an alternative plan for the reorganization of surgery at McGill University and the Royal Victoria Hospital (1945); two copies of a summary of minutes for the McGill University Selection Committee on Chair for Surgery (1944); agendas; letters of consideration and nomination of individuals for the appointment as full-time professor of surgery; and appointments to the Medical Board of the Royal Victoria Hospital.