A Short History of the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne
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CONTENTS A Short History of the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne A Word From The Head eviDent CPD Update News In Brief From the Museum Profiles A short history the Melbourne Hospital in Lonsdale Nominally the hospital had its of the Royal Street. Initially the hospital prospered, own management committee, the treating patients and taking on members of which, together with Dental Hospital apprentices but politics, gold rushes the secretary, were common with the of Melbourne and the collapse of the land boom college. saw the Committee of Management The union between the two bodies reduced to two, Mr John Iliffe, the prospered with the college eventually President, and the Secretary Mr Ernest designing, financing and completing Joske. They must have dreaded the in 1907 a building at 193 Spring Street closure of the hospital and the end of to house both organisations; with the By Henry F Atkinson a decade of work. hospital as a tenant. They were justly After several difficult and unproductive Drastic steps were necessary, public proud of this achievement which John years of debate by the Odontological meetings were called resulting in Iliffe stated at every opportunity, was Society of Victoria on the possibility the administration of the hospital built without government help. of establishing a dental hospital in and all its assets, being returned to To both patients and students it was Melbourne, the president John Iliffe its founding fathers - the Dental not possible to separate hospital from took the problem directly to a meeting Association of Victoria - of which college. of the local dentists with the result that Iliffe was also President. The hospital continued over... the Dental Association of Victoria was continued in reduced circumstances Picture: Porcelain room and staff, c.1907, formed with the single aim of opening a until 1897 when another meeting sepia toned photograph of the porcelain dental hospital. of local dentists resulted in the room at the Melbourne Dental Hospital establishment of an educational and Australian College of Dentistry, This event occurred with much institution, the Australian College of Spring Street Melbourne with (l to r) fanfare in 1890. The new Melbourne Dr E F Greenwood, unknown student, Dentistry, which included the hospital Dental Hospital occupied rooms over Mr T Unsworth, Dr Angus Bain, Mr Ernest administration (apparently returned Garton’s Horse and Carriage Bazaar Joske and Mr L Price, 20.5 x 28.0 cm, reg. without fanfare from the dental directly opposite the gates of no 1232/362, Henry Forman Atkinson association). Dental Museum A Word From MOHTEC will provide experience This new CRC builds on the old CRC probably why the government looked Internal hospital problems over This action involved the hospital The absorption of the Dental Faculty the Head for the final year DDS students with for Oral Health Science and welcomes sympathetically at the next request for management saw senior staff, the and the Hospitals and Charities into the Medical Faculty and the private patients and with private new particpants, Colgate Oral Care, funds. In 1925 it made the first grant superintendent and secretary, resign Commission and resulted in the official creation of a Dental School RTE ET MAR practice business management. Murray Goulburn Dairy Co-operative ET A TE of 100 pounds. The finances of the because of difficulties over the Minister of Health establishing the prior to the move to a new building and the University of Queensland hospital and college were, however, administration. Ministerial Advisory Commission to where the school would be a tenant, The DDS will be Australia’s only Dental School. The participants of still tangled creating a challenge for consider, amongst other items, the made further changes to relationships postgraduate qualification for As a result the government took the original CRC will all continue in the new hospital accountant who was relationship between the hospital between the hospital and the school The School has been engaged in a range training general dental practitioners. continued from page 1 ... a direct interest in the project by the new CRC-OH and these are the having great difficulty in explaining and school. Discussions also centered inevitable. of activities in the first quarter of 2010; We believe this program creates appointing to the Committee of Melbourne Dental School and other the concept of separate budgets. on changing the philosophy of the with the major focus on preparing a new benchmark in 21st century Entry was by a common door off the Management independent members Today the Federal Government is Departments of The University of hospital to that of a general or the documentation for the Australian dental education. The degree will not street, students treated patients and A significant change in philosophy with business experience. determined to make changes at the Melbourne, CSL Ltd; GC Australasia, furthermore when the superintendent, teaching hospital. Dental Council for the accreditation only lead to registration as a general - the acceptance of a physical This was followed by a complete national level to the funding of health Recaldent Ltd and Monash University. the only paid hospital staff went on of our new Doctor of Dental Surgery dental practitioner with the Dental separation of the two bodies - came reorganisation of the administration This concept was strongly supported care in order to bring services to the All the CRC participants are indebted leave, a senior student was appointed (DDS) curriculum; completion of the Practice Board in Australia and New when the University Council in of the project. The building advisory by the chairman of the Hospitals wider community. to Ms Gilda Pekin Deputy CEO and to the position. A dental faculty was negotiations to finalise the agreements Zealand, but it will also create a 1926, accepted the proposal of a committee membership now Commission who had recently These actions will undoubtedly involve Legal Counsel who has worked formed and the college was affiliated to establish the new Cooperative pathway to enter the MPhil, PhD or government committee, that the new consisted of businessmen with concluded a similar proposal involving dental hospitals which together tirelessly for the last nine months with The University of Melbourne, Research Centre for Oral Health Doctor of Clinical Dentistry. dental college be incorporated into experience in finance, architecture the new Austin Hospital and the with the fundamental changes (CRC-OH) and to secure approval to facilitate agreement between all which, according to the inaccurate the medical school and the hospital university; the The School is fortunate to have and engineering, in undergraduate and graduate from the finance committee of the parties and make the CRC a reality. wording on a large cast bronze plaque into the general hospital opposite. proposal was internationally-recognised academics alongside education now underway, may indicate University Council for the release of The introduction of the DDS, and the mounted on the wall of the entrance Some sketch plans were apparently ultimately who will deliver the course using representatives that it is time to reconsider the wider funds to establish the Melbourne Oral establishment of MOHTEC and the hall, also included the hospital. drawn but the administrations did narrowly lectures, pre-clinical practical classes of the hospital Today the Federal teaching hospital concept in any new Health Training and Education Centre new CRC-OH would feature amongst not formally separate until 1928 when defeated. The and clinical patient treatments Mr Joske, through college influence, and university. Government is determined developments. (MOHTEC) at 723 Swanston St. the most transformational changes for the College Council, as a separate Commission involving all specialties of dentistry was now made the Faculty Secretary Now for the first to make changes at the the Melbourne Dental School in its 106 and independent body, had its first however I am very pleased to report that the and case-based and online learning. which together with his other dental time in 20 years national level to the funding year history and clearly augur well for meeting followed by the Hospital increased Picutred above: accreditation documentation for The curriculum is based on up-to- activities, Register of the Dental Board, a complete set of health care in order to Far Left: Main Clinic, c.1907, sepia an exciting and prosperous future. Secretary of the College, Secretary of Committee of Management, a hospital staff by the DDS was recently submitted to date scientific evidence in oral health, of architectural toned photographic print of the main year later in 1929. The physical and bring services to the wider appointments to the ADC and an ADC accreditation imparting advanced philosophies, the Hospital, and Honorary Member drawings was conservative clinic at the Melbourne practical situations did not change community. clinical teaching visit to the School has been planned skills and knowledge related to all of the Odontological Society, must available, thus Dental Hospital and Australian College at Spring Street, the building was the areas with more for August with the aim of having areas of clinical dental practice and have given an air of a mad Hatter’s tea enabling tenders of Dentistry, Spring Street, Melbourne, house surgeons showing three rows of chairs, gas lights, the new program accredited before party to the administration; Joske was same and the committee members to be advertised research. unsewered spittoons, 20.5 x 28.0 cm, reg. Eric Reynolds literally writing and signing letters to were common, but the essentials and a contract and clinical our first student intake in early As part of the four year full-time no 1232/375, Henry Forman Atkinson Head, Melbourne Dental School himself. of financial separation were on the let. supervisors. The hospital changed 2011. I would particularly like to degree, students will spend significant Dental Museum.