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Westminster Hospital Medical School Established 1834 (Westminster Hospital Medical School)
1984 (Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School)
2007 (Imperial College School of Medicine)Type Medical school Location London, England Affiliations Imperial College London The Westminster Hospital Medical School was formally founded in 1834 by George Guthrie, an ex-military surgeon - although students had been taken on at Westminster Hospital almost from the hospital's foundation in 1719 (the traditional name at the Westminster was "cubs").[citation needed]
The hospital and medical school moved to larger buildings several times in the decades that followed, leading to conflict among the staff on several occasions. Guthrie's forceful urgings on retaining the location of the hospital and school on one occasion resulted in an argument climaxing in a pistol duel between two surgeons (though each missed each other).[citation needed]
One early Westminster student was John Snow, later the founder of modern epidemiology.
In 1905, the teaching of pre-clinical subjects ended at Westminster, and moved to King's College. The school was taken over by the army in 1914 to train pathologists for the war effort. Student numbers and the school suffered as a result, and it was only after 1920 that numbers improved.
In 1984, Westminster Hospital Medical School merged with local rivals Charing Cross Hospital Medical School to form Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. This move was part of a general series of mergers in the London medical schools in the early 1980s. Westminster Hospital moved to the site of St Stephen's Hospital on Fulham Road in Chelsea in 1993, and changed its name to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. In 1997, CXWMS merged with the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and Imperial College London, whose medical department was St Mary's Hospital Medical School. The new institution was called Imperial College School of Medicine, and was at the time the largest medical school in the UK.
Shrove Tuesday Final Year Dinner
The Shrove Tuesday Dinner started in 1940 during the Blitz at the old Westminster Hospital. Students and house staff decided to have dinner to alleviate the oppressive mood. A senior member of staff was invited to address the assembled doctors and whilst he was talking a caricature was sketched on the tablecloth by one of his audience. It was cut out, passed round, signed and mounted and started the unbroken tradition that has evolved into the Shrove Tuesday Final Year Dinner.
The event is held in March every year and it is a chance to look back on the last six years before finalists put their heads down for finals revision. The dinner is specifically for the year but other doctors and friends are allowed to attend the after-dinner festivities. So the dinner is quite unique as it is very intimate with just final years and has very quirky traditions such as the caricature (all of which are displayed in the basement of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital), and more recently, the music video, in which the professors send up a popular song.
Year Speaker Speciality 2011 Dr Mike Schachter Pharmacology & Faculty Senior Tutor 2010 Prof Patrick Venables Professor of Rheumatology 2009 Prof Geoffrey Pasvol Professor of Infection and Tropical Medicine 2008 Mr Robin Touquet Emergency Medicine 2007 Miss Jenny Higham Obstetrician annd Gynaecologist 2006 Prof John MacDermot Head of Undergraduate Medicine 2005 Prof Averil Mansfield Vascular Surgery 2004 Prof John F Laycock Endocrine Physiology 2003 Mr Rosin Consultant General Surgeon 2002 Dr C Bunker Consultant Dermatologist 2001 Dr Iain Lindsay Consultant Histopathologist 2000 Mr James Scott Orthopaedic Surgeon 1999 Dr Neil Soni Consultant Anaesthetist 1998 Prof Phillip J Steer Obstetrician 1997 Dr J Collins Physician 1996 Mr JM Thomas Oncological Surgeon 1995 Dr Richard Straughton Consultant Dermatologist 1994 Dr Ronald Zeegan Physician & Sub-Dean 1993 Mr JEH Pendower Dean 1992 Prof C Wastell Surgeon 1991 CP Hugh-Jones 1990 Dr AC Branfoot Histopathologist 1989 TW Glenister 1988 Dr B Bazzard Consultant Physician 1987 Dr Peter Fleming Cardiologist 1986 Dr Bob Phillips Radiotherapist 1985 Dr J Gleeson Radiologist 1984 Dr P Emerson Physician 1983 Dr Joe Connolly Consultant Psychiatrist 1982 Dr FB Gibberd Neurologist 1981 Mr David L Evans Orthopaedic Surgeon 1980 Dr Lavinia W Loughridge Consultant Renal Physician 1979 Dr Handley MT Coles Consultant Paediatrician 1978 John Bernard Wyman Dean, Anaesthetist 1977 Prof Harold Ellis Surgeon 1976 Dr Ian M Anderson Consultant Paediatrician 1975 Mr PD Trevor-Roper Consultant Ophthalmologist 1974 Dr RIS Bayliss Consultant Physician 1973 Prof Douglas H Mackenzie Pathologist 1972 Dr JG Humble Haematologist 1971 Dr CJ Gavey Physician 1970 CE Drew ESQ Thoracic Surgeon 1969 Prof Malcolm DMilne Physician 1968 Prof B Lacey Microbiologist 1967 Prof GSW Organe Anaesthetist 1966 Mr F Dudley Hart Physician 1965 Mr FA d\'Abreu Surgeon 1964 Mr GH Macnab Surgeon 1963 Mr D Walker Ashcroft Otorhinolaryngologist 1962 Mr HE Harding Orthopaedic Surgeon 1961 Mr R Cox Surgeon 1960 Mr ES Lee Surgeon 1959 Dr Robert Machray Anaesthetist 1958 Prof NF Maclagan Pathologist 1957 Dr SP Meadows Physician 1956 Dr Peter J Kerley Radiologist 1955 Dr JL Franklin Dermatologist 1954 Mr EP Brockman Orthopaedic Surgeon 1953 Dr FM Allchin Radiotherapist 1952 Sir Clement Price Thomas Surgeon 1951 Dr. Ivan Magill Anaesthetist 1950 Dr WE Lloyd Physician 1949 Mr A Goodwin Obstetrician and Gynaecologist 1948 Mr AC Bell Obstetrician and Gynaecologist 1947 Prof RJV Pulvertaft Clinical Pathologist 1946 Dr HT Brown Dermatologist 1945 Mr AF MacCallan Ophthalmic Surgeon 1944 Sir Arnold Scott Physician 1943 Sir Adolphe Abrahams Physician 1942 Mr Gerald Thomas Mullaly Surgeon 1941 Sir Ernest Rock Carling Surgeon 1940 Sir Stanley Woodwark Physician References
Coordinates: 51°30′01″N 0°07′45″W / 51.5003°N 0.1291°WUnited Hospitals Members CurrentBarts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry • Imperial College School of Medicine • King's College London School of Medicine • Royal Veterinary College • St George's, University of London • UCL Medical SchoolFormer and defunctCharing Cross and Westminster Medical School1 • Charing Cross Hospital Medical School1 • Guy's Hospital Medical School2 • King's College Medical School2 • Middlesex Hospital Medical School4 • Royal Free Hospital Medical School4 • Royal Postgraduate Medical School1 • St Bartholemew's Hospital Medical School3 • St Mary's Hospital Medical School1 • St Thomas's Hospital Medical School2 • The London Hospital Medical College3 • United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals2 • University College and Middlesex School of Medicine4 • University College Medical School4 • Westminster Hospital Medical School1Student life Medgroup • Medical Student Newspaper • Competitions • Combined Teams • United Hospitals Cup • United Hospitals RFC
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