Dr Malcolm Shaw
Known as: Calum
03/02/1911 to 28/06/2007
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Nationality: British
CRN: 536105
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Higher Grade School in Lochgilphead followed by Dunoon Grammar School 1926-28, winning prizes in science and mathematics. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MB ChB, University of Glasgow, 1938 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
MA, University of Glasgow, 1933 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
On qualifying Shaw held resident appointments at the Glasgow teaching hospital and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Next, from 1940 to 1946 he served as a doctor in the British forces in India, Iran and Iraq, becoming an anaesthetic specialist with the rank of Major. On demobilisation (1946) he passed the DA and secured a 6-months clinical clerkship in anaesthetics under the auspices of the University of Glasgow. In this post he was understudy to the hospital work of Dr HH Pinkerton, which he found an excellent initiation back to civilian practice. Next he held training posts at the Western Infirmary and the Royal Infirmary for Sick Children in Glasgow. In 1956 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow where he remained until his retirement in 1976.
Professional interests and activities
He was Secretary & Treasurer of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists for 1950-52 and its President in 1966. For the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists he served as Hon. Secretary-Treasurer 1957-63, Founding Editor of the News Letter 1960-67, and President for 1969-70.
Other biographical information
Shaw has been described as “kind, thoughtful and compassionate” and noted for his “dedication to anaesthesia and his gentlemanly, old-style bedside manner”. He married Julia Middleton, a general practitioner, in 1948 and they had one son. In retirement he played the organ and was an Elder in the Church of Scotland, also studying Gaelic and all aspects of Scottish highland history. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his son, a grand-daughter and two great-grand-daughters.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
[1] Dr Shaw’s self submitted biographical college “Boulton form” dated 1988.
[2] MacDonald A. Obituary. Annals Scottish Society of Anaesthetists 2008: 14-16. The photograph is courtesy of the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists.