ABSTRACT
In 1954, Alastair Geoffrey Donald became a founder associate of the newly established College, working as an advocate for medical education within general practice, and ultimately elevating the status and profile of the specialty. Graham Buckley said of Donald: ‘The key role Alastair played was to harness the disparate and sometimes mercurial talents of others to create and establish high quality postgraduate training programmes for General Practice across the country’. Donald was able to make his own escape under cover of darkness and the staff and associate specialist used the Royal College of General Practitioners as its base in preparing the storming of the embassy. Donald’s contribution and legacy to medical education both regionally and nationally continues to be seen. Whilst a general practitioner in his local community, he worked as the first appointed Regional adviser, contributing to the team that established postgraduate general practitioner training in the South-East of Scotland.
