Health Visitor Education
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Health Visitor Education
Classmark: LUA MED/35/1
Original reference: LUA/DEP/100
Date(s): 1925-1992
Size and medium: 59 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/631878
Collection group(s): University Archive | Medical Collections
Description
Records relating to the administration and management of Health Visitor education within the Department of Public Health Medicine [and its earlier iterations].
Mainly consists of records for the Health Visitor course. Includes files of annual course records [between 1933/34 and 1988/89]; student records; publications and course texts; copies of examination papers, registers of students and applications; Health Visitor Students' Library registers; meeting minutes; correspondence files; and other records relating to the administration of the course.
Also contains files of records for related courses and study days, including: the Diploma in Nursing, Public Health teaching to District Nurses, Health Visitor Continuing Education General Approach & Review [GEAR] Courses, Health Visitor Fieldwork Teacher courses, Community Nurse Manager Study Days, Peripatetic Workshops for Health Visitors, AIDS (HIV) Trainer Courses and Symposia, and Short Courses for Assessors of Supervised Practice.
Biography or history
Trainee Health Visitors had attended lectures in the Department of Public Health since the early 20th century, shared with the Diploma in Public Health students. By 1926 the course had become formalised with student Health Visitors being full University students. To qualify, they took examinations to obtain the Certificate in Health Visiting, originally examined by the Royal Sanitary Institute. The course moved to the new Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in 1948.
When the Royal Sanitary Institute syllabus was changed to the new Council for the (Education and) Training of Health Visitors syllabus in 1965, the University became a validating body for the UK Health Visitors Certificate qualification. The University decided to close the course in 1989; after which a training course for Health Visitors opened at Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Beckett University).
Sources:
University of Leeds Reporter no. 302, 20 October 1989.
Source: I.D.G. Richards, Public Health in the Leeds Medical School, 1973-1993 (Oct 1983).
System of arrangement
A functional system of arranagement was imposed on the collection.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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