McDonald, Sydney Fancourt (1885 - 1947)

Summary

Sydney McDonald had a distinguished medical career in clinical paediatrics and wrote numerous important articles in the field. He started his medical career at the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases and the Alfred Hospitals in Victoria. Then in 1912 he was appointed Assistant Senior Resident Surgeon at the Children's Hospital. In late 1914 McDonald moved to England to further his studies, but when World War I broke out he enlisted as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. McDonald served in several military hospitals and clearing stations and finally returned to Australia in 1919c where he worked at Queensland's Hospital for Sick Children from 1920. He also kept up his military service and held many posts including medical examiner for the Royal Australian Air Force. Sydney McDonald was also heavily involved with many professional medical bodies and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Details

Chronology

1904 - 1910

Career position - Second Lieutenant in the Australian Militia Engineers

1909

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Melbourne

1910

Education - Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne

1910 - 1914

Career position - First Officer, then Major, in command of the Melbourne University Rifles

1912 - 1914

Career position - Assistant Senior Resident Surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne

1913

Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne

1914

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London

1914 - c. 1919

Career position - Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps with the 4th (British) General Hospital in Versailles (France), the 33rd and 51st Casualty Clearing Stations and the 46th Stationary Hospital

1919 -

Career position - Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London

1920 - 1923

Career position - Out-patient Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane

1923 -

Career position - Senior In-patient Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children

1923

Career position - Physician at the Rosemount Military Hospital

1923 - 1944

Career position - Councillor of the British Medical Association, Queensland branch

1928 -

Career position - Chief Medical Examiner for the Department of Civil Aviation in Queensland

1928 -

Career position - Councillor of the Medical Defence Society of Queensland

1930

Career position - President, British Medical Association, Queensland branch

1937 - c. 1941

Career position - Wing Commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)

1938

Award - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)

1938

Career position - First Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Queensland

1940

Award - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), London

1940 - 1947

Career position - Consultant Physician at Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital

1941 -

Career position - Group Captain of the medical branch of the RAAF

1944 - 1946

Career position - Member of the Faculty of Medicine Board, University of Queensland

1946 -

Career position - Chair of the advisory committee on paediatric studies within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Pearn, John Hemsley, The Highest Traditions: a Biography of Sydney Fancourt McDonald (Brisbane: Department of Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, 1985). Details

Book Sections

• Pearn, John Hemsley, 'McDonald, Sydney Fancourt (1885-1947), paediatrician and army dotctor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 254-255. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100246b.htm. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24087773. Details
• 'McDonald, Sydney Fancourt (1885-1947)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464549. Details