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who were part of a resistance movement against the occupying German forces. With the
Partisan combatants constantly on the move, he operated in caves, stables, or mountain huts, with the operative field often lit only by candlelight. He wrote a first-hand account of this experience in 1992. After the
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to establish an exit examination toward the end of higher surgical training in orthopaedics (FRCSEd (Orth), which subsequently became the
Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship in 1990 and was subsequently adopted as the norm for all surgical specialties in the United Kingdom and Ireland. His clinical
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which later awarded him its honorary fellowship. James attracted orthopaedic specialists to work in
Edinburgh, encouraging them to develop an interest in a specialist area of orthopaedics, and in this way he was able to establish a comprehensive regional orthopaedic service. He made contributions to
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and together they arranged orthopaedic training programmes which were to gain national and international reputations. He was appointed in 1958 to the chair of orthopaedic surgery at the
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and established training programmes which attracted trainees from around the world. He believed in structured specialist training. As chairman of the
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James became secretary and then president of the
British Orthopaedic Association, and the association's award of its honorary fellowship gave him particular pleasure. In 1959, James was elected a member of the
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James was born in London, son of
Stanley Bloomfield James, and his wife Jessica (née Heley). His father had worked in a variety of jobs around the world, as a lumberjack in Canada, as a combatant in the
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