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16 - The University of Nottingham

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2013

Michael Whitfield
Affiliation:
University of Bristol and Medical University of Southern Africa
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The beginnings

The University of Nottingham received its Charter in 1948, but it was some time before it had a medical school. By the late 1960s agreement was reached between the then Sheffield Regional Hospital Board and the university that there should be a university teaching hospital in Nottingham which allowed the university to proceed with the founding of a medical school. The first forty-eight students were admitted in September 1970 and the faculty was officially inaugurated in October 1970 by Sir Keith Joseph, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Services. Responsibility for general practice teaching was placed in the department of community health led by its Professor Maurice Backett.

The development

There was no general practice teaching until the first students entered the clinical part of their courses in May 1973. By this time five part-time general practice lecturers had been recruited each with an honorarium to acknowledge their contribution. They included Alan Murphy, John Skinner, Tom Venables, Peter Sprackling and Harold Lee. David Metcalfe was appointed senior lecturer in 1972. He had experience of British general practice in Yorkshire and had been teaching and practising family medicine in Rochester, USA.

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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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