Harvey Club of London

The Harvey Club of London is the oldest currently active medical club in Canada. It was founded by Drs. J.W. Crane and C.M. Crawford in 1919 in London, Ontario.[1] The club was initially founded as a way for practicing physicians to stay abreast of new developments in biomedical sciences, analogous to the modern concept of continuing medical education, a function that it continues to perform with annual presentations of papers. The club also provides financial support to students in the form scholarships at the medical school of Western University.[2]

Origins

In response to a number of requests to have a medical refresher course, Dr. James W. Crane and others founded the Harvey club in 1919, at the end of the first World War.[1] Annual dinner meetings were held initially at Tecumseh house in London, Ontario, where members would present papers.[2] The club was named after William Harvey, renowned English physician and physiologist, famous for the detailed description of the systemic circulation as a closed circuit.

In addition to presentations, the club briefly published papers into a locally distributed journal, The Bulletin of Harvey Club, which was republished in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.[3] More commonly, papers presented at the Harvey Club are published in other journals.[4][5][6]

The Harvey Club Today

The Harvey Club meets four times a year to present papers related to developments relevant to medicine related to the sciences, humanities, and world events.[2] The club provides a scholarship for medical students studying at Western University. The Harvey Club of London Prize is awarded to the medical student with the best paper presented on the history of medicine. The award has a financial component, and the name of the recipient is engraved on a silver plate.[7]

Notable Members[8]

  • Dr. Charles George Drake
  • Dr. Murray Barr
  • Dr. Robert Noble

Honorary Members[9]

  • Sir Fredrick Banting
  • Dr. Leonard Rowntree
  • Dr. Michael Bliss

Other notable medical associations named after William Harvey

The Harveian Society of London is a medical society founded in 1831 based in The Medical Society of London, Chandos Street, in Cavendish Square.

The Royal College of Physicians of London holds an annual lecture established by William Harvey in 1656 called the Harveian Oration.

The Harvey Society, found in 1905, is based in New York City and hosts an annual lecture series on recent advances in biomedical sciences.

References

  1. 1 2 1908-1995., Barr, Murray Llewellyn (1977). A century of medicine at Western : a centennial history of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. London: University of Western Ontario. ISBN 0919534007. OCLC 4045914.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 "Harvey Club of London - Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry - Western University". www.schulich.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  3. ↑ Spence, E. (1922). "Bulletin of Harvey Club, London". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 12 (7): 493–494. ISSN 0008-4409. PMC 1524496. PMID 20314159.
  4. ↑ McAlister, Vivian C. (2007). "William Harvey, Fabricius ab Acquapendente and the divide between medicine and surgery". Canadian Journal of Surgery. 50 (1): 7–8. ISSN 0008-428X. PMC 2384247. PMID 17391608.
  5. ↑ McKellar, Shelley (April 2016). "Dr. William Waugh (1851–1936): promoter of change in nineteenth century medical education and practice". Canadian Journal of Surgery. 59 (2): 143–144. doi:10.1503/cjs.002416. ISSN 0008-428X. PMC 4814289. PMID 27007095.
  6. ↑ Western University (1939-03-01). "UWOMJ Volume 9, No 3, March 1939". University of Western Ontario Medical Journal.
  7. ↑ "The Harvey Club of London Prize - Harvey Club of London Prize Winners - Western University". www.schulich.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  8. ↑ Harvey Club fonds, Western Archives AFC 39 - 3/1, 39 - 3/2, 39 - 3/3, https://www.lib.uwo.ca/files/archives/archives_finding_aids/AFC%2039%20-%20Harvey%20Club.pdf
  9. ↑ Harvey Club fonds, Western Archives AFC 39 - 1/4 https://www.lib.uwo.ca/files/archives/archives_finding_aids/AFC%2039%20-%20Harvey%20Club.pdf
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