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British Society for the History of Medicine
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West Park Centre, Perth Road, Dundee: September 5th-8th, 2007
| 1530-1700 | Tea and Coffee and Scottish Honey Tasting (Longforgan Room, Main Building) |
| 1530-1800 | Registration Desk Open (Hallway of Main Building) |
| 1700-1830 | Officers and Representatives' Meeting (Kinfauns Room) |
| 1900-2030 | Dinner for residents in Henderson's Restaurant, Main Building. Cash Bar in Invergowrie/Longforgan rooms through the Evening |
| 0900-0930 | Registration (Outside Main Auditorium) | |
| 0930-1230 | Session 1: Historical Aspects of Medical Education (Main Auditorium) Chairman: Mr John Dent, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee This session is a joint one, being run in conjunction with a University of Dundee meeting to mark the 40th Anniversary of its Medical School. | |
| 0930-0940 | Overview / Welcome: | Dr John Blair Sir Alan Langlands |
| 0940-0950 | BSHM Presidential Address: | Dr John Ward |
| 0950-1010 | History of Undergraduate Medical Education: Evolution through co-ordinated courses to present day, systems based curricula. | Prof Ronald Harden |
| 1010-1030 | Dundee: Birthplace of the "OSCE": How the objective structured clinical examination delivered objectivity. | Prof Fergus Gleeson |
| 1030-1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100-1120 | Making learning explicit: The development of 'Study Guides' and their use for learning, teaching and assessment. | Prof Margery Davis |
| 1120-1140 | Harvey to Harvey: The teaching of cardiology from William Harvey to Harvey, the cardiology patient simulator. | Prof Stuart Pringle |
| 1140-1200 | From theory to practice - a solid foundation: The continuum from undergraduate portfolio learning to assessment of fitness to practice & progress. | Prof Philip Cachia |
| 1200-1220 | Modern history - 'IVIMEDS': The International Virtual Medical School on the world wide web. | Prof Ronald Harden |
| 1220-1230 | General Questions & Discussion. | |
| 1230-1400 | Lunch in Henderson's Restaurant |
| 1400-1430 | Session 2: Keynote Lecture (Main Auditorium)
'Cum Memoria Medicorum' Chairman: Dr John Ward, President BSHM | Prof John Pearn |
| 1435-1740 | Session 3: Free Papers There will be two parallel programmes, one in the Main Auditorium and the other in the Longforgan Room | |
| 1435-1740 | Session 3A: Travelling and Travellers (Main Auditorium) Chairman: Dr John Ward, President BSHM | |
| 1435-1455 | Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907): A Forgotten Polymath. | Henry Connor |
| 1455-1515 | An eminent Milanese Physician treats the Archbishop of St Andrews in Fife in the Sixteenth Century. | John Forrester |
| 1515-1535 | Captain Scott, the South Pole and Scurvy. | Aileen K Adams |
| 1535-1600 | Tea Break | |
| 1600-1620 | A Peruvian Interlude: Some notes on the Elucidation of Oroya Fever. | Stuart Menzies |
| 1620-1640 | Isabella Bird: An Unusual Victorian Lady Explorer and her medicine chest. | Christine Alvin |
| 1640-1700 | An 18th Century Scots Surgeon and a Chinese Emperor. | Nigel Allan |
| 1700-1720 | Medical influences on the lives of George Bass and Matthew Flinders, Lincolnshire explorers in Australia. | Linda Shields & John Pearn |
| 1720-1740 | Dr Charles Goodall MD FRCP (1642-1712): An early advocate in England of the Leiden Model of Clinical Teaching. | Denis Gibbs |
| 1435-1740 | Session 3B: Miscellany (Longforgan Room) Chairman: Dr David Wright, Vice-President BSHM | |
| 1435-1455 | Silvanus P Thompson and the Röntgen Society. | Adrian Thomas |
| 1455-1515 | Oncology In Ancient India: Tumours and their Treatment in Susrutasamhita. | Krishna Kunzru |
| 1515-1535 | From Beyond the Grave - Doctors' Wills | Geraldine Goodman |
| 1535-1600 | Tea Break | |
| 1600-1620 | Working can damage your health. | Peter Homan |
| 1620-1640 | King George III and the Porphyria controversy. | Edward Myers |
| 1640-1700 | Arabic influences on medical terminology. | MAR Al Fallouji |
| 1700-1720 | Dr Refik Saydam and his Public Health Works. | A D Erdemir |
| 1720-1740 | Inhalational anaesthesia in Arab medical history. | N K S Al-Quisi |
| 1830 | Buses Leave for Civic Reception at City Chambers. | |
| 2000 | Buses return for informal dinner at West Park at 2030 (Fiddlers at 2130) |
| 0830-0900 | Registration (Outside Main Auditorium) | ||
| 0900-1045 | Session 4A: Military Medicine (Main Auditorium) Chairman: Colonel John Blair | ||
| 0900-0925 | Typhus | Major General G O Cowan | |
| 0925-0950 | Stress and the Soldier | Dr John Cule | |
| 0950-1015 | Blood Letting and Blood Giving | Colonel M Thomas | |
| 1015-1045 | Coffee Break | ||
| 1045-1200 | Session 4B: Military Medicine Chairman: Major General G O Cowan | ||
| 1045-1110 | The Conscript Doctors | Colonel John Blair | |
| 1110-1135 | Casualty Air Evacuation at Suez, 1956 | Mr Ken Mills | |
| 1135-1200 | Arab Surgery/Medicine | Dr M Al-Fallouji | |
| 1200-1330 | Lunch in Henderson's Restaurant | ||
| 1330 | Buses depart for Verdant Works | ||
| 1400-1430 | Session 5: Keynote Lecture (Verdant Works) (Jute Museum) Chairman: Dr Graham Lowe, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee 'Photomedicine: past, present and future' | Prof James Ferguson | |
| 1430-1630 | Tours of Verdant Works (includes tour, film, social history gallery and tea) | ||
| 1630 | Buses depart for Discovery Point | ||
| 1700-1830 | Reception on, and tours of, RRS Discovery, (Captain RF Scott's polar exploration ship) | ||
| 1830 | Buses depart for West Park Centre | ||
| 1900 | Cash Bar open in Invergowrie/Longforgan rooms | ||
| 2000 | Conference Dinner in Henderson's Restaurant (Lounge Suits) |
| 0845-0915 | Registration (Outside Main Auditorium), (NB All delegates need to check out of rooms by 1000) | |
| 0915-1140 | Session 7: Free Papers There will be two parallel programmes, one in the Main Auditorium and the other in the Longforgan Room | |
| 0915-1140 | Session 7A: Free Papers: Teaching and Teachers (Main Auditorium) Chairman: Mr Roy Miller Vice-President SSHM | |
| 0915-0935 | Argyll Robertsons, pupils and masters. | Geoffrey Millar |
| 0935-0955 | Educating and Training the Diagnostic Radiographer: a Short History. | Rosemary Dennett & Mary Lovegrove |
| 0955-1015 | Medical Schools at the Royal Free Hospital before 1874 | Neil McIntyre |
| 1015-1035 | Midwives' views on the value of anatomical knowledge to midwifery practice and the problem of contracted pelvis (1671-1795). | Janette C Allotey |
| 1035-1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100-1120 | Educating 'Tomorrow's Doctors': Glasgow 1818-26 | Marjorie E M Allison |
| 1120-1140 | Colin MacKenzie MD: A profile of an influential, eminent, yet historically neglected, London 18th-century teacher of midwifery | Josephine Lloyd |
| 0915-1140 | Session 7B: Free Papers: Practice & Professions (Longforgan Room) Chairman: Dr Robert Montgomery Chairman Ulster Soc. for the Hist of Med. | |
| 0915-0935 | "To Observe well ....and thence to make himself Rules" John Locke's Principles and Practice of Child Health Care. | Andrew Williams |
| 0935-0955 | "Paediatrics" - the origins of a specialty. | John Pearn |
| 0955-1015 | The Apothecaries of Westminster Hospital, London, 1732-1826. | Stuart Anderson |
| 1015-1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100-1120 | Douglas Guthrie (1885-1975), first President of the SSHM and the BSHM | David Wright |
| 1120-1140 | Puns and Physic | Christopher Gardner-Thorpe & John Pearn |
| 1145-1230 | BSHM AGM and Closing Address (Main Auditorium) | |
| 1230 | Lunch in Henderson's Restaurant & Depart |
This copy of the programme is from the website of the British Society for the History of Medicine
www.bshm.org.uk, amended 8 Dec 2007