ABSTRACT
Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Richard Scott, in 1939, had spells of work as an assistant in general practice, in Fife, and in hospital medicine, in Edinburgh and Greenock. Scott was the director of the project and the first students were accepted in October 1948. In 1951, Scott obtained a travel bursary from the Rockefeller Foundation that made it possible for him to spend three months in the United States and Canada studying various teaching and community research projects. Scott was appointed advisor and subsequently consultant to the Word Health Organization in 1961 and was elected a member of the College of the Family Physicians of Canada in 1972. Scott was no showman, but he tirelessly pled the case for general practice to be given the attention it required. Closest to Scott’s satisfaction in creating a first-class University department was his pleasure in helping found the College.
