Look Closer
An exhibition on Nursing in Tayside & Fife
Medical School Foyer, Ninewells Hospital
March 2005 - February 2006
Nurses tended the wounded at Dundee Royal Infirmary during the Great War
A Christmas Tradition at DRI - the Nurses' Carol Service, 1966
Nurses at the 'Matty' (Dundee Maternity Hospital), 1930s
A letter from Matron, DRI 1936 (Click on image for bigger size)
The Fife Campus
The Fife campus of the University's School of Nursing & Midwifery has its origins here in the Victoria Fever Hospital, which opened in 1899 with 15 probationers (student nurses).
The hospital expanded in the 1960s and in 1973 merged with other nursing schools in the area to become Fife College of Nursing. The new building opened in 1986 and nurses' training had moved out of Victoria Hospital completely by 1992, when the school became Fife College of Health Studies.
Visitors to the Exhibition
As Look Closer opened, University Museum Curator Matthew Jarron and curator of the Medical History Museum Dr Graham Lowe welcomed two distinguished visitors to the Medical History Museum.
Dr John Cule is a renowned medical historian and has the distinction of being the only British president thus far of the International Society for the History of Medicine. He was visiting the Medical School to give a lecture entitled 'Medical History for the Medical Student' as part of the Postgraduate lecture series at Ninewells. He was accompanied by Alain Lellouch, a cardiologist from Paris who was visiting Scotland to give a lecture to the Franco-Scottish Society.
The visitors were shown round the Medical History Museum storerooms and were given a preview of the exhibition
Read a History of Nursing Education by John Drummond
Pictured in the exhibition space are (L-R): Matthew Jarron, Dr John Cule, Prof John McEwen (member of the medical history museum committee), Prof Elizabeth Wilson (School of Nursing & Midwifery), Dr John Blair (member of the Medical History Museum committee), Alain Lellouch, Dr Graham Lowe
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