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 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 a single page letter from Wilder Penfield to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, C.F. Martin, about research which has been carried out by the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The file contains correspondence between Wilder Penfield and D.O. Hebb. It details Penfield’s attendance at his last Board of Governors meeting and the the topics of discussion that arose, such as the changes which have come to the university since Penfield moved to Montreal.
