GB 1538 E1-E4 - Educational courses, conferences, and scientific meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

17 boxes

The bulk of the papers were transferred to the Archives by the administrative support staff for the various committees responsible for the meetings and courses, and in recent years by the Postgraduate Education Department, which has assumed responsibility for the organisation of meetings and courses in the College. Some of the programmes were transferred at some stage from the College Library. Some of the records relating to joint RCOG/RCR courses in ultrasound are transferred by the Postgraduate Training Department.
GB 1538 E1-E4 1960-1998 Collection (fonds) 17 boxes Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , RCOG
The College's first scientific meeting was organised as part of the programme to mark the opening of its new building in Sussex Place in 1960. The Scientific Advisory Committee was appointed to organise future meetings and courses. Museum demonstrations were the responsibility of the Pathology Committee. The Scientific Advisory Committee and the Pathology Committee merged in 1966. In 1968 responsibility for postgraduate symposia and museum demonstrations passed to the newly created Postgraduate Medical Education Committee, and responsibility for scientific meetings passed to the newly created Scientific Programme and Central Congress Committee. In 1973 the Postgraduate Medical Education Committee was renamed the Postgraduate Committee, and became responsible for all meetings and scientific programmes. From October 1974, however, the Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee acquired some responsibility for the initiation of scientific meetings, and became responsible for the revived programme of study groups. From 1981 the Scientific Advisory Committee became primarily responsible for all scientific and educational meetings, but the Postgraduate Committee continued to advise on their organisation.

The Postgraduate Committee was disbanded in 1992. Arrangements for postgraduate education meetings, courses and seminars and for meetings of study groups are now the responsibility of the Postgraduate Medical Education Department of the College. Production of printed proceedings of study groups is the responsibility of the Publications Editor, Administration Department.

The bulk of the papers were transferred to the Archives by the administrative support staff for the various committees responsible for the meetings and courses, and in recent years by the Postgraduate Education Department, which has assumed responsibility for the organisation of meetings and courses in the College. Some of the programmes were transferred at some stage from the College Library. Some of the records relating to joint RCOG/RCR courses in ultrasound are transferred by the Postgraduate Training Department.

Records of educational courses, conferences, and scientific meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1960-1998, comprising course programmes, lists of participants, abstracts, budget details and papers relating to the intellectual content of the meetings and courses. Courses have been held on such subjects as maternity services, artificial insemination, labour, colposcopy, gynaecological cancer, infertility, pain relief, caesarean section and hormone replacement therapy.

The organisation of meetings and courses generates many ephemeral papers. In almost all cases files have been weeded of all papers except for those listed under scope and content.

Further accruals are expected.

The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content.

Printed material open. Other records open 20 years after last date on file.

Copyright is vested in the College.
English

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.

Other copies of programmes, circulated as advertisements for meetings, may be found, after 1982, in A4A, along with some published proceedings of study groups. Copies of the published proceedings of study groups are also held by the College Library. Reports of the College's meetings in the 1960s and early 1970s appeared in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists holds International Scientific Meetings (Reference: A13); records of the Postgraduate Medical Education Committee and the Postgraduate Committee (Reference: B8); records of the Pathology Committee, the Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee, and the Scientific Advisory Committee (Reference: B10); Scientific Advisory Committee's files on proposed study groups and workshops on particular subjects (Reference: B10/2/20-21); records of the SAC sub-committee on audio-visual aids, 1968-1979, and later papers of the Postgraduate Education Committee, which took over responsibility for audio-visual equipment and provision of educational material on audio tape in 1979 (Reference: B10/9/2 and B8/9); records of the Scientific Programme and Central Congress Committee (Reference: E6); joint scientific meeting with the RCS on the pelvic floor, 1983 (Reference: E10/3/2); College's correspondence with the Blair Bell Research Society, primarily concerned with the Society's scientific meetings held in the College (Reference: E12); some photographs of study groups and participants of meetings (Reference: PH10).

Compiled by Clare Cowling, revised by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000. November 2002 Associations Gynaecology Higher science education Medical education Medical personnel Medical profession Medical sciences Obstetrics Organizations Personnel Professional associations Professional training Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists x British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Surgery Training People by occupation People

Records of educational courses, conferences, and scientific meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1960-1998, comprising course programmes, lists of participants, abstracts, budget details and papers relating to the intellectual content of the meetings and courses. Courses have been held on such subjects as maternity services, artificial insemination, labour, colposcopy, gynaecological cancer, infertility, pain relief, caesarean section and hormone replacement therapy.

The organisation of meetings and courses generates many ephemeral papers. In almost all cases files have been weeded of all papers except for those listed under scope and content.

Further accruals are expected.

The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content.

Printed material open. Other records open 20 years after last date on file.

Copyright is vested in the College.

• English

• Latin

English

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists holds International Scientific Meetings (Reference: A13); records of the Postgraduate Medical Education Committee and the Postgraduate Committee (Reference: B8); records of the Pathology Committee, the Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee, and the Scientific Advisory Committee (Reference: B10); Scientific Advisory Committee's files on proposed study groups and workshops on particular subjects (Reference: B10/2/20-21); records of the SAC sub-committee on audio-visual aids, 1968-1979, and later papers of the Postgraduate Education Committee, which took over responsibility for audio-visual equipment and provision of educational material on audio tape in 1979 (Reference: B10/9/2 and B8/9); records of the Scientific Programme and Central Congress Committee (Reference: E6); joint scientific meeting with the RCS on the pelvic floor, 1983 (Reference: E10/3/2); College's correspondence with the Blair Bell Research Society, primarily concerned with the Society's scientific meetings held in the College (Reference: E12); some photographs of study groups and participants of meetings (Reference: PH10).

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.

Other copies of programmes, circulated as advertisements for meetings, may be found, after 1982, in A4A, along with some published proceedings of study groups. Copies of the published proceedings of study groups are also held by the College Library. Reports of the College's meetings in the 1960s and early 1970s appeared in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth.

National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

• English