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McDonald, Sydney Fancourt (1885 - 1947)

FRACP, FRCP

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Paediatrician

Born: 18 November 1885 Rocklea, Queensland, Australia. Died: 8 August 1947 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Sydney Fancourt McDonald had a distinguished medical career in clinical paediatrics and wrote numerous important articles in the field. He started his medical career at the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases and the Alfred Hospitals in Victoria. Then in 1912 he was appointed Assistant Senior Resident Surgeon at the Children's Hospital. In late 1914 McDonald moved to England to further his studies, but when World War I broke out he enlisted as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. McDonald served in several military hospitals and clearing stations and finally returned to Australia in 1919c where he worked at Queensland’s Hospital for Sick Children from 1920. He also kept up his military service and held many posts including medical examiner for the Royal Australian Air Force. Sydney McDonald was also heavily involved with many professional medical bodies and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1904 - 1910 Second Lieutenant in the Australian Militia Engineers
1909 Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Melbourne
1910 Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1910 - 1914 First Officer, then Major, in command of the Melbourne University Rifles
1912 - 1914 Assistant Senior Resident Surgeon at the Children's Hopsital, Melbourne
1913 Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Melbourne
1914 Resident Medical Officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London
1914 - c. 1919 Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps with the 4^th (British) General Hospital in Versailles (France), the 33^rd and 51^st Casualty Clearing Stations and the 46^th Stationary Hospital
1919 - Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London
1920 - 1923 Out-patient Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane
1923 - Senior In-patient Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children
1923 Physician at the Rosemount Military Hospital
1923 - 1944 Councillor of the British Medical Association, Queensland branch
1928 - Councillor of the Medical Defence Society of Queensland
1928 - Chief Medical Examiner for the Department of Civil Aviation in Queensland
1930 President of the British Medical Association, Queensland branch
1937 - c. 1941 Wing Commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
1938 Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
1938 First Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Queensland
1940 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), London
1940 - 1947 Consultant Physician at Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital
1941 - Group Captain of the medical branch of the RAAF
1944 - 1946 Member of the Faculty of Medicine Board at the University of Queensland
1946 - Chair of the advisory committee on paediatric studies within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 26 July 2005

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