Educational & professional benefits
The Royal Society of Medicine’s commitment to the ‘exchange
of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation
of medicine’ is over 200 years old. Today, this heritage is sharply
focused on the needs of medical practitioners in a pressurised and
demanding world.
Academic and Professional benefits
of RSM Membership include:
The largest postgraduate medical
library in Europe
Enjoy
Members-only access to the RSM Library. The extensive facilities include nearly 1,000 journals, online access to seven health-related databases, 28 PCs, six private study rooms, the out-of-hours study centre (available after closing hours both evenings and weekends), online search facilities, postal service, photocopying service, search service, and of course our friendly and experienced library staff who are only too pleased to help.
58 Specialty Sections and over 400 meetings a year, nearly all with CPD accreditation
Over 400 Specialty Section meetings and conferences are held each year to further your CPD and private interests. We cover specialties from Anaesthesia through to Venous medicine. Fellows can apply to join four Sections and Associates two*, although Members are welcome to most Section meetings at Member's rates. The Sections are:
- Anaesthesia
- Black & Ethnic Minority Health
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic
- Catastrophes & Conflict
- Clinical
- Clinical Forensic & Legal Medicine
- Clinical Immunology & Allergy
- Clinical Neurosciences
- Coloproctology
- Comparative Medicine
- Critical Care Medicine
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology & Diabetes
- Epidemiology & Public Health
- Food & Health Forum
- General Practice with Primary Healthcare
- Geriatrics & Gerontology
- History of Medicine
- Hypnosis & Psychosomatic Medicine
- Intellectual Disability
- Laryngology & Rhinology
- Lipids, Metabolism & Vascular Risk
- Maternity & the Newborn
- Medical Genetics
- Nephrology
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Occupational Medicine
- Odontology
- Oncology
- Open
- Ophthalmology
- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
- Orthopaedics
- Otology
- Paediatrics & Child Health
- Pain Medicine
- Palliative Care
- Pathology
- Patient Safety
- Pharmaceutical Medicine & Research
- Plastic Surgery
- Psychiatry
- Quality in Healthcare Forum
- Radiology
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology & Rehabilitation
- Sexuality & Sexual Health
- Sleep Medicine
- Sport & Exercise Medicine
- Surgery
- Technology in Medicine
- Telemedicine & eHealth
- United Services
- Urology
- Vascular Medicine
- Venous
* Not all Sections accept Associates, please call our Membership Dept. to enquire.
For more information on our conferences and meetings go to RSM Events on our main website.
RSM Membership allows you remote access to many online resources.
You can search Medline, Embase, CAB Global Health, DH-Data, AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine), the King's Fund database and the Cochrane Library.
Our literature searchers can also search a range of other databases in your behalf.
Your Membership also allows you access to 1,000 full text ejournals, all through the Members’ Only section of our website.
Discounts on Medical Publications and Journals
RSM members are entitled to a 20% discount with Oxford University
Press Medical titles and ongoing offers with other publishers.
Networking with colleagues and
industry heads
Using the RSM facilities will allow you, if you so wish, to expand your contacts and discuss issues of the day with colleagues and other healthcare experts. All this in a relaxed, inviting atmosphere that promotes a forum for convivial debate.
For just £24 a year you can opt to have the respected 