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Social History of Medicine Advance Access originally published online on November 3, 2009
Social History of Medicine 2009 22(3):513-530; doi:10.1093/shm/hkp059
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. All rights reserved.

Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930-1960

European Refugee Physicians in Scotland, 1933–1945

Kenneth Collins*

* History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Lilybank House, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RT, UK. E-mail: drkcollins{at}gmail.com


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Summary. In the years following the Nazi seizure of power, several hundred refugee physicians, almost exclusively Jewish from Central Europe, obtained medical qualifications in Scotland. The study programmes, mainly in the extra-mural medical schools in Glasgow and Edinburgh, gave them access to the examinations of the Triple Qualification Board of the Scottish Royal Colleges of Medicine and Surgery which provided a licence to practise medicine in Britain. Many refugee psychiatrists, whose speciality was less well developed in Britain, began their new careers in Scotland, finding the atmosphere congenial despite the contemporary hardships of dislocation, anti-alien agitation and internment.

Keywords: medical qualifications; refugee physicians


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