Teaching
- High profile for teaching at outset
- 1942 – In collaboration with the University of Birmingham industrial nursing course established
- 1944 – Preliminary training school of nurses established provided nurses to the Acci and other hospitals
- 1945 – Two week course for industrial medical officers established
- 1950 – National course on Care of Injured established
- Final course held in December 1990
- March 1951 – Institute of Accident Surgery established as a registered charity
- Ethos to promote education including to the military, medical students, nursing students, physiotherapy and occupational therapy students. A dynamic engaging teaching environment.
- Regular T and O senior registrar rotations from both the Oswestry and Birmingham rotations.
- Regular military medic attachments including the soldiers from Hereford and the para regiments.
- Provision of rapid updates preceding the Falklands War.
Key achievements
- Hunterian Professorships
- EM Evans 1951
- Essex Lopestri 1952
- D MacG Jackson 1953
- Arris and Gale Lectureship
- Ruscoe Clark 1952
- John Bull awarded CBE
Simon Sevitt produced seminal work on:
- renal failure
- the pathology of burns
- thromboembolism
- healing of fractures
JH Hicks work on healing of fractures was pioneering including the development of the Hicks Plate for fracture fixation