ZOOM MEETING 13:00 to 17:00 EDT
Meeting ID: 832 8734 1345
For information, contact medicalmuseum.med [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Canadian%20University%20Medical%20Collections%3A%20Status%2C%20Successes%2C%20and%20Challenges%202023)
Welcome to the Canadian University Medical Collections: Status, Successes, and Challenges 2023. The half-day symposium brings together individuals whose work addresses the complex role of managing Canadian University-based collections of medical objects. Such collections may include either biological material (e.g., bones, anatomical dissections, pathological “wet specimens”, etc.) or non-biological objects (e.g., medical models, microscopes, surgical instruments, etc.). The goals are to document what exists and how it is used as well as to establish an informal network of people to strengthen academic and professional links.
It is our hope that this symposium will invite open discussion as well as spark future research collaborations on museums in medical education.
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13:00-13:10 |
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Richard Fraser |
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13:10-13:25 |
Felicity Pope Networking Efforts. A special interest group, the Coalition of Canadian Medical Museums & Archives (CCHMA) formed in 1999 only to close down thirteen years later. These brief remarks address its aims, achievements and reasons for its demise from the point-of-view of the surviving instigator. |
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13:25-13:40 |
Richard Fraser The Maude Abbott Medical Museum is a repository for material objects related to the history of medicine at ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą and the province of Quebec. It includes several large collections (e.g., “wet” pathology specimens, skeletal material, lantern slides, and medical instruments) as well as smaller ones of anatomical models, research apparatus, and histology slides. |
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13:40-13:55 |
houses over 2000 specimens, organized by organ system and subclassified by etiology. Our collections hold historical and current disease conditions from the 1940s to the present day ranging from gross to microscopic anatomy. The Dr. William Boyd collection composes the core of the gross pathological specimens, along with the addition of the Dr. Betty Poland Cytogenetic Embryo Collection, the BC Children’s Hospital Congenital Heart Disease Collection, and the Dr. William Thurlbeck Lung Research Collection. |
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13:55-14:10 |
Chantal Atallah The Louis Berger collection of pathology specimens originated in 1928 at Université de Laval. Although it was used for teaching for many years, much of it was eventually placed in storage. The major part of it has recently been transferred to the care of the Maude Abbott Medical Museum in Montreal. |
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14:10-14:20 |
Break |
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14:20-14:35 |
Roberta Martindale Anna Nevesinjac The is a dedicated space in a health sciences education building that houses pathology specimens (wet), a skeleton as well as a repository of digitized specimen pictures and a collection of “quarterplate” slides. The museum has space to hold small group sessions, such as tours and classes. |
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14:35-14:50 |
Gabor Fischer MD, PhD The Boyd collection is a collection of pathology samples obtained through autopsies, representing diverse pathologic findings from multiple organ systems. I believe most samples are from the first half of the last century. |
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14:50-15:05 |
Professor, Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery Grant’s museum is an anatomical museum that was founded by Dr. JCB Grant in the 1940’s and is based on dissections of the human body that were displayed for student study and illustrated for Grant's Atlas of Anatomy. Grant's Atlas was first published in 1943 and was the first anatomical atlas to be published in North America. The museum is currently used by students in a wide variety of programs when taking anatomy courses at the University of Toronto. |
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15:05-15:20 |
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences The Anatomy Learning Centre facilitates the hands-on teaching and learning of anatomy and histology at Queen’s University. The Anatomy Museum contains hundreds of jarred and plastinated specimens from all regions of the body, as well as a large collection of anatomical models and osteological specimens. The Main Dissection Lab utilises formalin fixed cadavers and hundreds of microscopic slides as the primary teaching material. Embryological specimens are stored in the Sensitive Specimen Room, and soft-embalmed and fresh/frozen cadavers are dissected for surgical skills training in the Restricted Dissection Room. |
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15:20-15:35 |
Director of the Education Program in Anatomy and Surgical Skills Center at McMaster Our collection is formally known as the McMaster Medical Museum but we normally just refer to it as the Main Anatomy Collection and the Pathology Museum. The museum is housed separately from the main collection. The collection includes about 700 plastic embedded specimens which are mainly pathology and 1,200 jarred specimens balanced between normal and pathological. There are also about 100 plastinates. There are approximately 80 full and partial skeletons. |
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15:35-15:45 |
Break |
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15:45-16:00 |
The HEART Lab Prosected Specimen Collection is a highly utilized and valued resource for faculty, staff, and students. It services 8 schools and departments across the University, post-graduate medical clinical skills training sessions, and external groups with interest in the anatomical sciences. The collection encompasses cadaveric prosections, pathologies, skeletal remains, plastinated specimen’s and anatomical models. |
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16:00-16:15 |
Pierre Masson’s heritage goes above and beyond his world-famous trichrome stain and his writing on human neoplasms: “Les Tumeurs Humaines”. During his lifetime, Masson built a large collection of histology tissue slides. We set ourselves the task of rescuing this collection and making it available for education and research. |
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16:15-16:30 |
Curator, University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection The University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection seeks to safeguard, catalogue, and research the material culture of research at the University of Toronto. It includes a number of collections and artifacts related to the history of health and medicine. These consist primarily of instruments, but also include such things as medical models, samples of biological medicines, and medical implants. Only a small percentage of the medical artifacts have been catalogued. Catalogued material can be found under the “Health Sciences” heading of the . |
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16:30-16:45 |
Originating with the Faculty of Medicine at Western in the late nineteenth century, the Medical Artifact Collection contains over 1200 artifacts which represent the practice and teaching of health and medicine in southwestern Ontario. It includes objects and instruments related to cardiology, ophthalmology, dentistry, pharmacology, surgery, homeopathy, obstetrics, phlebotomy, veterinary and military medicine, microscopy, anatomy, and alternative medicine from the late eighteenth century until today. There are no wet pathological specimens. |
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16:45-17:00 |
Closing Remarks |
