The Hammersmith 19351985

1. Explanations and definitions.- 2. Postgraduate medical education: the problem and a solution.- 3. Hammersmith Hospital.- 4. The birth of the Postgraduate Medical School.- 5. Infancy and war.- 6. The Nationalization of Health Services and Federation of Postgraduate Institutes.- 7. Peacetime Hammersmith.- 8. The four necessities.- 9. Growth: the bare essentials (19451966).- 10. Growth: staff (19451966).- 11. Teaching.- 12. Research.- 13. Clinical practice.- 14. The years of uncertainty and unrest (19701978).- 15. The crisis years (19781982).- 16. 1984 and the way ahead.- 17. Annotated references and notes.