Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) (1927 - )

Summary

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was established in 1927 as the "College of Surgeons of Australasia" acquiring its grant of arms and its 'Royal' prefix in 1930. It is a non-government organisation run by a Council made up of elected members from throughout Australia and New Zealand who work in an honorary capacity. There are also co-opted members to represent surgical specialties. The College trains around 90 per cent of all surgeons practising in Australia and New Zealand and is also responsible for maintaining surgical standards in Australia and New Zealand.

Related entries

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Papers of Graeme M. Clark, 1944-2012 [manuscript], 1944 - 2012, MS 8696; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Department of Otolaryngology - Bionic Ear Records, 1949 - 2000, 2004.0043 at U77/46-55; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Beasley, A. W., The mantle of surgery: the first seventy-five years of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Melbourne: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2002), 310 pp. Details
• Kenny, Patrick (Sir), The founders of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Melbourne, Victoria: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 1984), 84 pp, https://www.surgeons.org/-/media/Project/RACS/surgeons-org/files/our-heritage-archives/founders.pdf. Details

Book Sections

• Smith, Colin, 'The Shaping of the RACS, 1920-1960' in Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Handbook 1995, D.E. Theile; P.H. Carter and C.V. Smith, eds (Melbourne: Royal Australian College of Surgeons, 1995), pp. 13-54. Details

Journal Articles

• Heslop, J. H., 'Gordon-Taylor Memorial Lecture: the history of basic surgical science examinations in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 58 (1988), 529-36. Details
• Kenny, P. J., 'The founders of the College', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 51 (1) (1981), 95-101, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05917.x. Details
• Smith, Julian Ormond, 'The history of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 1920 - 1935', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 41 (1) (1971), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1968.tb06249.x. Details
• Wilson, G., 'Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons: foundation and progress', Medical Journal of Australia, 1977 (1) (1977), 738-42. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15995438. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/131426735. Details
• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-522406. Details

See also

• Braithwaite, P., 'The founders of the College: Tasmania', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery 81(6):625-6, 81 (6) (1981), 625-6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05267.x. Details
• Fleming, D. W., 'The founders of the College: Western Australia', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 81 (6) (1981), 623-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05266.x. Details
• Howard, R. N., 'The founders of the College: Victoria', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 51 (2) (1981), 227-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05948.x. Details
• Kenny, P. J. and Miller, I. D., 'The founders of the College: New South Wales', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 51 (3) (1981), 319-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05970.x. Details
• Leggett, C. A. C., 'The founders of the College: Queensland', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 51 (5) (1981), 508-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05998.x. Details
• McEachern, A. C., 'The founders of the College: South Australia', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 81 (4) (1981), 400-5, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb04978.x. Details