Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Dedication
- 1 The University of Aberdeen
- 2 The University of Dundee
- 3 The University of Edinburgh
- 4 The University of Glasgow
- 5 The Cardiff University School of Medicine
- 6 Academic General Practice in Ireland
- 7 The University of Birmingham
- 8 The University of Bristol
- 9 The University of Cambridge
- 10 The University of Exeter
- 11 The University of Leeds
- 12 The University of Leicester
- 13 The University of Liverpool
- 14 The University of Manchester
- 15 The University of Newcastle
- 16 The University of Nottingham
- 17 The University of Oxford
- 18 The University of Sheffield
- 19 The University of Southampton
- 20 The London Medical Schools
- 21 The University of St Andrews
- Appendix 1 Primary Care in the New Medical Schools
- Appendix 2 The SIFT/ACT Negotiations
- Appendix 3 An Overview
- Appendix 4 And Finally…
- Index
19 - The University of Southampton
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Dedication
- 1 The University of Aberdeen
- 2 The University of Dundee
- 3 The University of Edinburgh
- 4 The University of Glasgow
- 5 The Cardiff University School of Medicine
- 6 Academic General Practice in Ireland
- 7 The University of Birmingham
- 8 The University of Bristol
- 9 The University of Cambridge
- 10 The University of Exeter
- 11 The University of Leeds
- 12 The University of Leicester
- 13 The University of Liverpool
- 14 The University of Manchester
- 15 The University of Newcastle
- 16 The University of Nottingham
- 17 The University of Oxford
- 18 The University of Sheffield
- 19 The University of Southampton
- 20 The London Medical Schools
- 21 The University of St Andrews
- Appendix 1 Primary Care in the New Medical Schools
- Appendix 2 The SIFT/ACT Negotiations
- Appendix 3 An Overview
- Appendix 4 And Finally…
- Index
Summary
1969–1980
Southampton was one of the three new medical schools founded in the wake of the Todd report – the first new school in the UK since before the First World War (as we were constantly reminded). It prided itself on being different and set out to at least double the then very low proportion of clinical teaching in the community (achieving 7 per cent in the first decade). The foundation Dean, the epidemiologist Donald Acheson (later Sir Donald Acheson, CMO at the DHSS), had made his name in Oxford with his record linkage project. He brought with him an able general practitioner from nearby Bicester, John Forbes, who had helped him, particularly with aspects of care of the elderly. Forbes was appointed as senior lecturer in Acheson's department of community medicine in 1968, with the brief of developing general practice education and research and including a model practice. At first medical school money was ‘ring fenced’ from the other Southampton faculties and further appointments rapidly followed: David Skelton as lecturer in 1969, Chris Metcalfe as senior lecturer in 1970, myself in 1972 and Pat Hertnon from New Zealand in 1973 as lecturers to complete the initial staffing of the university practice.
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- Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000A Short History, pp. 87 - 91Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011