Through the back door: the College and award of Membership without examination

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad M. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Home Country ◽  
The World ◽  
Back Door ◽  
The Uk

Every year the Royal College of Psychiatrists awards a number of memberships to psychiatrists without examination. This is done under Bye-Law III 2 (ii). The sub-category Bye-Law III 2 (ii) (a) states that the ‘Membership of the College may be extended to senior psychiatrists who have practised with distinction over many years and are of international repute’. Candidates should be nominated, proposed and seconded by two members or fellows of the College. If the candidate is from outside the UK, one of the sponsors must be from the applicant's home country. Nominations are accepted from all over the world (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2001).

The NACPDE: new opportunities for dentists trained overseas

2009 ◽  
Vol 91 (8) ◽  
pp. 283-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Dental Education ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Dental Surgery ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

The National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Dental Education (NACPDE) was founded in 1978 and is based in the Faculty of Dental Surgery of The Royal College of Surgeons of England and funded by the Department of Health. The UK has traditionally played an important part in providing clinical training and postgraduate education for dentists from all parts of the world. But it is equally important to recognise the contribution oversea-strained dentists have made to the NHS.

scholarly journals The International Fellowship Scheme for consultant psychiatrists: trainees' perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 229-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanju George ◽  
Bill Calthorpe ◽  
Sudhir Khandelwal
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
International Fellowship ◽  
The Uk

The NHS International Fellowship Scheme for consultants offers overseas consultants, in specialties including psychiatry, an opportunity to work in the UK (Goldberg, 2003). This was launched by the Department of Health in 2002 and so far over 100 consultant psychiatrists have been recruited. However, there are several aspects of the project that are unclear. How long will this recruitment continue? Are there any arrangements in place to encourage overseas consultants to return to their home country at the end of their fellowship? Are they eligible to train senior house officers (SHOs) and specialist registrars (SpRs)? Will the recruitment under the scheme have an impact on job opportunities for SpRs currently training in the UK? Why is membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists being granted to the newly recruited consultants without an examination? These and many more concerns have arisen in the wake of this scheme. In this article, we evaluate the scheme, discuss its implications and suggest possible ways forward.

scholarly journals Autopsy in suspected COVID-19 cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 239-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hanley ◽  
Sebastian B Lucas ◽  
Esther Youd ◽  
Benjamin Swift ◽  
Michael Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Clinicopathological Correlation ◽  
Sars Coronavirus ◽  
Autopsy Findings ◽  
Death Toll ◽  
The World ◽  
Group 3 ◽  
The Uk

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus-2 (CoV-2) outbreak in Wuhan, China has now spread to many countries across the world including the UK with an increasing death toll. This will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related deaths at autopsy. The Royal College of Pathologists has responded to this concern with the release of a briefing on autopsy practice relating to COVID-19. The following article is a summary and interpretation of these guidelines. It includes a description of hazard group 3 organisms, the category to which SARS-CoV-2 has been assigned, a brief description of what is currently known about the pathological and autopsy findings in COVID-19, a summary of the recommendations for conducting autopsies in suspected COVID-19 cases and the techniques for making the diagnosis at autopsy. It concludes by considering the clinicopathological correlation and notification of such cases.

the International Advisory Board at the Royal College of Surgeons

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (8) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Martin Bircher ◽  
Mike Parker
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
The World ◽  
International Activities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
International Advisory

The International Advisory Board (IAB) was created at the College in 2009 to coordinate and enhance the College's international activities. At the outset the question was posed as to whether we pursue an active overseas strategy? We believe the answer is a resounding 'yes'. Nearly 25 per cent of our membership is from overseas. We believe we owe all our members a commitment not only to advance standards of healthcare within the UK but also across the world.

scholarly journals ‘A Procedure Without a Problem’, or the face transplant that didn’t happen. The Royal Free, the Royal College of Surgeons and the challenge of surgical firsts

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012106
Author(s):  
Fay Bound Alberti ◽  
Victoria Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Surgical Innovation ◽  
Face Transplant ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Surgical History ◽  
The Media ◽  
International Issues ◽  
The Uk

Face transplants are an innovative and unusual form of modern surgery. There have been 47 face transplants around the world to date, but none as yet in the UK. Yet in 2003, the UK was poised to undertake the first face transplant in the world. The reasons why it didn't take place are not straightforward, but largely unexplored by historians. The Royal College of Surgeons, concerned about the media attention given to face transplants and the ethical and surgical issues involved, held a working party and concluded that it could not give approval for face transplants, effectively bringing to a halt the UK’s momentum in the field. This extraordinary episode in medical history has been anecdotally influential in shaping the course of British surgical history. This article explores and explains the lack of a face transplant in the UK and draws attention to the complex emotional, institutional and international issues involved. Its findings have implications beyond the theme of face transplants, into the cultural contexts and practices in which surgical innovation takes place.

Stigma

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 317-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

‘Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale.’ (Rudolph Virchov, 1848, quoted in Link & Phelan, 1996)Discrimination and prejudice against people with mental illnesses is ubiquitous, pernicious and wrong. The overwhelming case against such stigma has been recognised by initiatives from the UK government, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the US Surgeon General, the World Psychiatric Association and many other organisations

International Listening Post report summary: the world at the dawn of 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-124
Author(s):  
Sandy Henderson ◽  
Ulrike Beland ◽  
Dimitrios Vonofakos
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

On or around 9 January 2019, twenty-two Listening Posts were conducted in nineteen countries: Canada, Chile, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Germany (Frankfurt and Berlin), Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy (two in Milan and one in the South), Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the UK. This report synthesises the reports of those Listening Posts and organises the data yielded by them into common themes and patterns.

The fate of the bird specimens from Cook's voyages possessed by Sir Joseph Banks

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Medway
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
British Museum ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
The World ◽  
Extensive Collection

Joseph Banks possessed the greater part of the zoological specimens collected on James Cook's three voyages round the world (1768–1780). In early 1792, Banks divided his zoological collection between John Hunter and the British Museum. It is probable that those donations together comprised most of the zoological specimens then in the possession of Banks, including such bird specimens as remained of those that had been collected by himself and Daniel Solander on Cook's first voyage, and those that had been presented to him from Cook's second and third voyages. The bird specimens included in the Banks donations of 1792 became part of a series of transactions during the succeeding 53 years which involved the British Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and William Bullock. It is a great pity that, of the extensive collection of bird specimens from Cook's voyages once possessed by Banks, only two are known with any certainty to survive.

scholarly journals A public health perspective on mental health: lessons for population health in the 21st century

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
James V. Lucey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Shared Commitment

In December 2019, clinicians and academics from the disciplines of public health and psychiatry met in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), to restate their shared commitment to population health. The purpose of this review is to bring our discussion to a wider audience. The meeting could not have been more timely. Six weeks later, the COVID-19 emergency emerged in China and within 12 months it had swept the world. This paper, the contents of which were presented at that meeting in December recommended that future healthcare would be guided more by public health perspectives and informed by an understanding of health economics, population health and the lessons learned by psychiatry in the 20th century. Ultimately two issues are at stake in 21st century healthcare: the sustainability of our healthcare systems and the maintenance of public support for population health. We must plan for the next generation of healthcare. We need to do this now since it is clear that COVID-19 marks the beginning of 21st century medicine.

scholarly journals Thy 3F and 3a malignancy rate, a multisite regional retrospective case series

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 545-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Alexander ◽  
J Rudd ◽  
D Walker ◽  
G Wong ◽  
A Lunt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Cancer ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Thyroid Malignancy ◽  
Retrospective Case ◽  
Retrospective Case Series ◽  
Indeterminate Nodules ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Diagnosis Of Thyroid Cancer ◽  
Benign Thyroid

Introduction The aim of this study was to ascertain the incidence of thyroid cancer for patients categorised as Thy3, 3a or 3f across four tertiary thyroid multidisciplinary centres in the UK. Material and methods This is a retrospective case series examining patients who presented with a thyroid nodule and diagnosed as Thy3, 3a or 3f according to the Royal College of Pathologists modified British Thyroid Association and Royal College of Physicians Thy system. Results In total, 395 patients were included in this study. Of these, 136 turned out to have benign thyroid disease and 24 had micropapillary thyroid carcinomas. The overall rate of thyroid malignancy was 28.8%. For each subcategory, the rate of malignancy was Thy3 24.7.7%, Thy3a 30.4% and Thy3f 29.2. However, the incidence of thyroid malignancy varied considerably between the four centres (Thy 3f 18-54%). Discussion The diagnosis of thyroid cancer is evolving but detection for malignancy for indeterminate nodules remains below 50% for most centres around the world. In 2014, the British Thyroid Association subdivided the original Thy3 category into Thy3a and Thy3f and recommended a more conservative approach to management for Thy3a nodules. Despite this, only two centres yielded a higher conversion rate of malignancy in the new higher graded Thy3f group compared with Thy3a. Conclusion It is debateable whether the new ‘Thy3’ subcategories are more useful than the original. Local thyroid malignancy rates may also be more useful than national averages to inform treatment decisions.

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