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File consists of two books authored by David Sackett: Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine (1985), one of the seminal books that has gone through several editions as a classic textbook in the field, and Mentorship in Academic Medicine (2014), the definitive guide about mentorship for clinician scientists that David Sackett authored with Sharon Straus. Also included is a draft of a synopsis of David Sackett's novel writing exercise

Starting from the late 1970s, Dr. Sackett and his colleagues began to popularize the use of clinical epidemiologic principles and published extensive background papers to support their teaching of evidence-based medicine. File consists of records reflecting the highlights of the role that Dr. Sackett and his colleagues played in the evolution of evidence - based medicine and their extensive contributions to the development of research methods for health care. Included are reprints, photocopied publications, press clippings, and a journal with a task force report on periodic health examinations that was co-authored by Dr. Sackett. Also included is correspondence relating to Dr. Sackett’s role as the founding editor of the journal Evidence-Based Medicine from 1996-1999.

Throughout his professional life, David Sackett published 9 books, chapters for 54 others, and over 300 papers in medical and scientific journals.

This file consists of records documenting Dr. Sackett’s early writing and publishing activities from the 1960’s to mid 1970’s. Most of the records are annotated with comments and notes. File includes a reprint of his “first publication” entitled, Multiplication of Vaccinia virus in serum-free and serum-containing cell cultures (1960), when his was pursuing his M.D. degree at University of Illinois College of Medicine. Also included is a manuscript and a reprint of his “first solo publication” based on his post-doctoral research fellowship project at Illinois entitled, Adaptation of monodirectional high-voltage electrophoresis on long papers to the rapid qualitative identification of urinary amino acids (1964). During his time at the State University of New York at Buffalo, his interest shifted from laboratory to clinical medicine, particularly clinical epidemiology. There are manuscripts and reprints from this period of time that reflect the change, including a reprint of his “first epidemiology publication” entitled, The epidemiology of aortic and peripheral atherosclerosis, A selective review (1965), a reprint of his “first original epidemiologic research” entitled, The Relationship Between Cigarette Usage and Aortic Atherosclerosis (1966), and a reprint of his “first paper in a major clinical journal”, which was published on The New England Journal of Medicine in 1968.

File also consists of reprints and photocopied publications that reflect a broad range of topics in clinical epidemiology, including benefits of aspirin for patients with threatened stroke and threatened heart attack, the ability of nurse practitioners to provide effective primary care, the futility of traditional health education in helping hypertensive patients take their medicine, ways to detect and reduce bias in clinical research, and ways to design, conduct, and report randomized clinical trials. Also included is one of his publications on the education of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.

File consists of slides documenting First and Second World War veterans with amputations and their activities. Included are slides depicting family life of veterans with amputations, hospital ships, tanks, driving with prosthetics, and other rehabilitation activities at Lyndhurst Lodge, Camp Hill Hospital and Deer Lodge.

Identified individuals in slides include Elwin Plumbtree, Ernest Copper, H. Pullin, Edward Small, Harry Davidson, and B. Campbell.

File consists of the Academy's appointed representative on the Worker's Compensation Board and includes reports to council, correspondence, and annual reports. In addition, there is letter addressed to the Academy's membership from Dr. R.M. Mitchell, President and Chair on Worker's Compensation Board of the Ontario Medical Association, advising the Academy to conduct a study of scheduled fees before the Board can revision their schedule of fees.

File consists of material related to Fred Woodcock, documenting his life, advocacy, and contributions to the Canadian National Institute of the Blind (CNIB) and other organizations supporting individuals with visual impairments. Included is a biography detailing his life achievements, an obituary, and news clippings.

File consists of event records for the Academy's section of Women Physicians annual Women's Health Day and Elizabeth Bagshaw Memorial Lecture and includes correspondence, application to the College of Family Physicians of Canada for the approval of course or program for study credits for continuing study requirements, press releases announcing the lectures, event brochures listing the schedule, speakers and topics, financial statements and reports, event topic abstracts, and planning committee minutes. The file also contains photocopies where the original records were destroyed.

File consists of event records for the Academy's section of Women Physicians annual Women's Health Day and Elizabeth Bagshaw Memorial Lecture and includes the planning committee minutes and correspondence, event news releases, exhibitor registration forms, event programs and event brochures listing the schedule, speakers and topics, event evaluations, invoices, financial statements, notices of meetings, exhibitor lists, treasurer's reports, and event posters.

File consists of event records for the Academy's section of Women Physicians annual Women's Health Day and Elizabeth Bagshaw Memorial Lecture and includes memos, planning committee minutes and correspondence, notices of meetings, event schedules, event new releases, exhibitor registration forms, event evaluation forms, financial reports, key speaker curricula vitae, and promotional posters. The file also contains transcribed letters by the project archivist, as well as photocopies where the original records were destroyed.