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Rodger returned to Glasgow in 1934 as Deputy Superintendent of the [[Gartnavel Royal Hospital|Royal Mental Hospital]] and Assistant Lecturer in [[Psychiatry]] at the [[University of Glasgow|University]].<ref name="story"/> He remained there until 1940, when he joined the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] as a Specialist in Psychiatry.<ref name="BMJ">{{cite webjournal|title=Obituary of T Ferguson Rodger|journal=British Medical Journal|pmc=1605481|publisher=[[BMJ]]|date=24 June 1978|volume=1|issue=6128|pages=1703–1704}}</ref> By 1944, he was Consultant in Psychiatry with the rank of [[Brigadier]],<ref name="story"/> and was stationed in India and the [[South-East Asian theatre of World War II|South East Asia Command area]]<ref name="RCPsych"/> ([[Burma]], [[British Ceylon|Ceylon]], [[British India|India]], [[Thailand]], [[French Indochina|Indochina]], [[British Malaya|Malaya]] and Singapore). He increased the profile of psychiatry within military medicine and established psychiatry as an important tool in selection of officers.<ref name="story"/><ref name="RCPsych"/> After the War, in 1945, he returned to Scotland as Senior Commissioner of the General Board of Control for Scotland<ref name="story"/><ref name="BMJ"/> (replaced in 1960 by the [[Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland]]), but retained his connection to the Army throughout his life.

In 1948, he was appointed to the new Chair of Psychological Medicine at the [[University of Glasgow]]. He developed his unit at Glasgow's [[Southern General Hospital]] into a strong component of the Universityuniversity's [[University of Glasgow Medical School|Medical School]], and was instrumental in developing it into a leader in the development of psychiatry within hospitals<ref name="RCPsych"/><ref name="BMJ"/> and the combination of psychological medicine with neurological sciences. In 1972, the unit was formed into the Institute of Neurological Sciences, where the [[Glasgow Coma Scale]] was devised by [[Graham Teasdale (physician)|Graham Teasdale]] and [[Bryan J. Jennett]] in 1974. He was an external examiner at [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] and [[University of Leeds|Leeds]] Universities.

Division of the [[Royal College of Psychiatrists|Royal Medico-Psychological Association]] in 1962 and President of the Association nationally in 1965, and was awarded an honorary fellowship in 1972 for his efforts during its application to become a [[Medical royal college|Royal College]]. He was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1967.

Rodger fell ill in 1972 and retired from the Chairchair at Glasgow the following year. He was succeeded by [[Michael Bond (physician)|Sir Michael Bond]], previously a Lecturerlecturer in [[Neurosurgeryneurosurgery]] at the Universityuniversity, who was knighted in 1995 for services to medicine.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biography of Sir Michael Bond|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1008&type=P|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]|date=10 May 2010|accessdate=19 December 2010}}</ref> Bond retired in 1998, and the Chairchair is currently vacant.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chair of Psychological Medicine|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/chair-and-lectureship/?id=810|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]|date=22 April 2008|accessdate=19 December 2010}}</ref>

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