Collection UMDS - UNITED MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCHOOLS OF GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' HOSPITALS (UMDS)

Key Information

Reference code

UMDS

Title

UNITED MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCHOOLS OF GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' HOSPITALS (UMDS)

Date(s)

  • 1956-1998 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

Approximately 10 linear metres

Scope and content

Minutes of committees including the Board of Governors, 1984-1997; Guy's Academic Committee 1982-1986; UMDS Academic Board, 1983-1994; Dental Studies Committee 1983-1989; Dental Academic Committee, 1989-1998; Dental Research Committee 1988-1989; Dental School and Hospital Departments/Board 1995-1998; Accommodation Committee 1982-1986; and Guy's King's and Thomas' Strategy Group, 1995-1996; Finance Committee 1984-1990; Library Committee 1982-1997; administrative records including files of the School Secretary, Registrar, Assistant Registrar and Clinical Dean, 1969-1997; Special Lectures files 1956-1998; Resource planning files 1992-1997; Library administration 1978-1999; Old students events/ alumni 1985-1997; Plan of UMDS site 1998; Examination Question Papers 1989-1998; Student Medical Education Committee (SMEC) papers 1990-1996; papers of the Physiological Society, 1997; student records 1982-1997; Personnel records, 1984-1998; publications including prospectuses, 1983-1995; Calendars, 1985-1986; Annual Report, 1984-1997; and related school and hospital publications, 1982-1996; financial reports and accounts, 1988-1992; student photographs, 1982-1998; ephemera, 1985-1997.

System of arrangement

As outlined in the Scope and Content field.

General Information

Name of creator

Biographical history

The Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals reunited as the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals (UMDS) in 1982. The new institution was then enlarged by the amalgamation of the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery with Guy's Dental School on 1 August 1983. In 1990 the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals (UMDS) began discussions with King's College London and, following formal agreement to merge in 1992 and the King's College London Act 1997, the formal merger took place on 1 August 1998. The merger created three new schools: the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Biomedical Sciences.

Archival history

There has arisen at times some difficulty in determining the division between records of UMDS and Guy's Hospital Medial School (GHMS). Some files containing material postdating the 1982 merger, have remained part of GHMS series and been catalogued with GHMS. The division may not always appear to be consistent. However where material was deposited as 'UMDS records', it has been kept in the UMDS section though the contents of some files originated at either St Thomas or Guy's Hospital Medical Schools, prior to 1982. Some committee records are contained in bound volumes. Where the UMDS committee directly succeeded the Guy's committee, they have remained with the Guy's collection, due to the impracticability of dividing the volumes.

Custodial history

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002. Student record cards and files relating to award ceremonies and special lectures were transferred separately, January 2003.

Conditions governing access

Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.

Files containing personal data are closed for 80 years and sensitive personal data for 100 years from the date of the most recent document in the file.

Access may be granted to researchers, and upon signature of a special undertaking, providing such research is for purely statistical purposes and published data is anonymised such as to prevent the identification of individuals.

Where open, access is subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

A detailed catalogue of the contents of the collection is available online and in hard copy in the King's College Archives Reading Room on the King's Strand Campus.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›

Related materials

Archives of Guy's Hospital Medical School held at King's College London, especially for UMDS Medical Examining Council see GHMS Medical (Examining) Council volume 1977-1989; and for UMDS Junior [Medical] Staff Committee see GHMS Junior [Medical] Staff Committee volume 1971-1985. Also archives of St Thomas' Hospital Medical School held at King's College London.

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Accession area