Recordings Made by Mr Ronald McRae, Orthopaedic Surgeon

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CD of lecture by David Lloyd Griffiths "Tuberculosis of Bone and Joint"
Administrative / Biographical History
Ronald McRae qualified MB ChB from Glasgow University in 1949. He was a Registrar at the Western Infirmary Glasgow and then became Senior OrthopaedicRegistrar at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow. Following this position he was appointed Consultant of the Orthopaedic and Accident Service at the Glasgow Southern General Hospital.
Professor Roland Barnes (1907-1998), moved north from Manchester in 1943 to establish an Orthopaedic Unit at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow and later became Glasgow University’s first Professor of Orthopaedics. He developed an extensive registrar programme and Ronald McRae recorded a number of the speakers in the hope of being able to use some of the material in the form of tape-slide presentations for undergraduate and post-graduate teaching. This was later abandoned because of technical problems. In 2003 McRae came across some of the original recordings on reel-to-reel tape and D. Lloyd Griffiths’ lecture on “Tuberculosis of Bone and Joint” is his first attempt at converting to CD.
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