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Travel Reports
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0.8 cm of textual records
Born in Spokane, Washington, Wilder Penfield received his B.Litt. from Princeton University in 1913 and was a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford (B.A.1916). He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1918. Studying under Sir Charles Sherrington at Oxford, Penfield became interested in the brain. From 1921 to 1928 he engaged in research and neurosurgery at the Presbyterian Hospital and served on the Medical Faculty of Columbia University. Appointed to the Medical Faculty of McGill University in 1928, he was Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery from 1934 to 1960. An endowment from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to establish the Montreal Neurological Institute (M.N.I.), which opened in 1934. At the M.N.I. Penfield made many innovations in neurosurgery including a surgical treatment for epilepsy. He devoted much of his research to the study of the physiology of the brain, speech memory and sensation. Besides his numerous scientific publications, Penfield wrote two novels and participated in a large number of professional organizations. Dr. Penfield was a member of the Board of Curators of the Osler Library.
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.