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Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners by Assessment

In all the medical Royal Colleges Fellowship is a higher grade than membership of the College, but in the great majority of Royal Colleges Fellowship is awarded by election to a minority of the members who have been judged by the Council of the College, or by a relevant sub-committee, to have achieved professional distinction. This is the arrangement in the Royal Colleges of Physicians, General...

Medical leaders celebrate the ascent of woman.

The BMJ’s editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, gathered together an unprecedented number of female medical leaders earlier this week in celebration of the fact that eight medical royal colleges are now led by women. The senior women are (left to right) Sue Bailey, chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges; Kate Lovett, dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; Carrie MacEwen, chair elect of th...

A College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

A College of Paediatrics and Child Health 'With your letter of 16th June 1994, you submitted a Petition for the grant of a Royal Charter incorporating a College of Paediatrics and Child Health. I am now writing to say that the Privy Council having considered the Petition are minded, without prejudice, to recommend to Her Majesty that a Charter be granted'. (Extract from a letter from NH Nicholl...

Diagnosis of brain death. Statement issued by the honorary secretary of the Conference of Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom on 11 October 1976.

The Triple Qualification examination of the Scottish medical and surgical colleges, 1884-1993.

The Triple Qualification (TQ) examination of the three Scottish medical colleges was founded in 1884 in the aftermath of the Medical Act of 1858, to offer a medical qualification that would have equal status with that of the universities and other medical schools. Continued efforts to amend the Act had threatened that the universities might dominate basic medical education to the exclusion of t...