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In the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth realms and Ireland, a medical royal college is a professional body in the form of a royal college responsible for the development of and training in one or more medical specialities.

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United Kingdom and Ireland

Standards and guidance

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.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland most medical royal colleges 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.

International role

The Royal Colleges are involved with international activities to improve health through education and training, with some of these efforts coordinated by the International Forum of the AoMRC. [1] The Royal College of General Practitioners has been actively involved on an international level to help family medicine doctors have access to "contextually relevant training and development programmes". [2]

History of institutions

Medical colleges can seek royal patronage and permission to use the prefix Royal, usually also having a royal charter. [3]

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. [4]

Some institutions with similar functions are not listed here: they do not have a Royal Charter 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.

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Australia and New Zealand

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References

  1. ↑ "International Forum". Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "RCGP International". Royal College of General Practitioners . Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "Royal Patronage and Title "Royal"". Government of Canada. 7 April 2014. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Louis Kuo Tai Fu (2000). "The origins of surgery. 2: From barbers to surgeons". Annals of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. 4 (1): 35–49. doi:10.1046/j.1442-2034.2000.00029.x.
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