The Early Years - Creating a Culture
The RACS building in the 1930s
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons building in Melbourne opened in 1935.
New organisations need to develop a culture. During the early years of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the ANZ Journal of Surgery published a number of articles about the need for high professional standards. Frederic Wood Jones went to some length to define the characteristics of a ‘master surgeon’. It is one of the most influential articles that has ever been published in the ANZ Journal of Surgery:
F. Wood Jones
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1935.tb02654.x (Volume 5 Issue 1 (July 1935) p 34-47)
It is also worth drawing attention to five brief articles. Many of the concepts that they contain are still relevant:
F. Gordon Bell
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1934.tb04472.x (Volume 3 Issue 4 (April 1934) p 393-394)
Ernest W. Hey Groves
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1936.tb02726.x (Volume 5 Issue 4 (April 1936) p 333-349)
D'Arcy Power
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1937.tb03536.x (Volume 6 Issue 3 (January 1937) p 244-247)
H.S. Newland
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1937.tb06180.x (Volume 6 Issue 4 (April 1937) p 403-404)
W.H. Ogilvy
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1939.tb02843.x (Volume 9 Issue 2 (October 1939) p 201-203)
