Medical royal colleges

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There are a number of medical royal colleges in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Each is responsible for a different speciality within the medical field. They are generally charged with setting standards within their field and for supervising the training of doctors within that speciality, although the responsibility for the application of those standards in the UK, since 2010, rests with the General Medical Council.

UK and Irish medical royal colleges that are members of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) are listed below, with their postgraduate faculties (some of which are independently members of the Academy) and institutes. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges itself has one faculty of its own - the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Other Irish institutions with similar functions are not listed here: they do not have a Royal Charter (like the UK College of Emergency Medicine) and are not members of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, for example the Irish Colleges of Anaesthetists, of General Practitioners, of Ophthalmologists and of Psychiatrists.

The letters in brackets are commonly used for or by the institution, for example in post-nominal letters that denote membership or fellowship. Dates in brackets are the year of incorporation by Royal Charter. The origins of some of these institutions may predate their incorporation by many years, for example the origins of the Royal College of Surgeons of England may be traced directly to a Guild of Surgeons in the City of London in the fourteenth century.[1]

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd, 1506[2])
  • Faculty of Dental Surgery
  • Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
  • Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care
  • Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
  • Intercollegiate Faculty of Surgical Trainers
Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP, 1518[2])
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG, 1599)
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI, 1654)
  • Faculty of Occupational Medicine
  • Faculty of Paediatrics
  • Faculty of Pathology
  • Faculty of Public Health Medicine
  • Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (joint with RCSI)
  • Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE, 1681)
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI, 1784)
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
  • Faculty of Radiologists
  • Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (joint with RCPI)
  • Institute of Leadership
Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS, 1800[2])
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG, 1930[2])
Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP, 1952[2])
Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath, 1970[2])
Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych, 1971[2])
Royal College of Radiologists (RCR, 1975[2])
  • Faculty of Clinical Oncology
  • Faculty of Clinical Radiology
Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth, 1988[2])
Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA, 1992[2])
  • Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
  • Faculty of Pain Medicine
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH, 1996[2])
(College of Emergency Medicine (CEM, 2006))

References

  1. ↑ Louis Kuo Tai Fu (2000)The origins of surgery. 2: From barbers to surgeons Annals of the College of Surgeons Hong Kong 4 (1), 35–49. doi:10.1046/j.1442-2034.2000.00029.x
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 "History of the Academy". Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Retrieved 2007-06-17. 

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