Strategy 2021–2026
Learn more about our 2021–2026 strategy, in which we share our plans for delivering our vision: better healthcare for better lives.
About us
The RSM is a charity and one of the country's major providers of postgraduate medical education.
About the RSM
The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a registered charity and membership organisation. Our vision is better healthcare for better lives. By sharing learning and supporting innovation, our goal is to be the leading provider of continuing learning to healthcare professionals.
We deliver multidisciplinary, specialist and general education, as well as professional development, drawing on the support of leading experts in over 50 specialist areas of medicine. We have a global network of 20,000 members. Bringing together healthcare professionals across specialties, we offer a range of membership options for every career stage, from students to retirement.
Our learning resources span a wide collection of books, journals, electronic journals and online medical databases. We are home to one of the finest physical and digital medical libraries in the world. We connect those involved and interested in healthcare and, by leveraging expertise from across the RSM, we support, help and inspire the innovators developing the medical products and services of tomorrow.
The RSM is a Royal Charter body registered with the Privy Council. Our former patron was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
How we are governed
Meet the people who govern the RSM, including members of the RSM Council, Academic Board and our Senior Management team.
Our history
Learn how the RSM, established in the rooms of a barristers’ chambers at Gray’s Inn, grew from humble beginnings to take up residence in London’s medical quarter.
Latest news
Read the latest news and activities from the RSM.
How healthcare professionals can improve wellbeing for those living with visible difference
The Royal Society of Medicine invited Susan Ross, Head of Education and Learning at Changing Faces, the leading UK charity for those living with a visible difference, to share advice on how healthcare professionals can impact good mental health outcomes for people living with a visible difference.
An exhibition in memory of medicine’s great humanist, Sir William Osler
22 May 2023
The latest exhibition at the Royal Society of Medicine Library celebrates the life and works of Canadian physician Sir William Osler, 1849-1919.
Wyndham Lloyd Davies: 1934 to 2023
19 May 2023
The Royal Society of Medicine offers condolences to the family and friends of Wyndham Lloyd Davies, renowned urologist and former President of the RSM Urology Section (1991-92), who died in March this year.
Matthew Taylor: a more ambitious national social contract for healthcare
18 May 23
Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation and one of the UK’s most influential health leaders, visited the Royal Society of Medicine on Monday 15 May 2023 to give the annual Stevens lecture, an RSM flagship public engagement event founded in 1970 by philanthropist and inventor Edwin Stevens.
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Sponsorship
Get involved with our events through a range of sponsorship and exhibition opportunities.
Council minutes
Minutes from RSM Council meetings are available online to RSM members only. Members need to sign in to access the minutes.
Environmental sustainability
The Royal Society of Medicine is committed to environmental sustainability and tackling climate change.
Job vacancies
View our latest job vacancies and learn more about working at the RSM.