Discover the latest news and activities from the Royal Society of Medicine.
26 June 2025
New commentary published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine warns that current risk-based regulatory approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare fall short in protecting patients.
17 June 2025
We are delighted to celebrate the RSM members and collaborators in our community recognised in The King’s Birthday Honours List 2025 for their outstanding contributions.
16 June 2025
Rachel Lambert-Forsyth has been announced as the new Chief Executive of the RSM. She will take up the role in November and lead the development of a new strategy for the organisation.
11 June 2025
Ethnic minority healthcare workers who are also born overseas face a double disadvantage due to the combined effects of ethnicity and migrant status, according to new research published in JRSM Open.
06 June 2025
To mark Libraries Week 2025 and its theme, “Libraries Change Lives,” we’ve been asking our members about the role the RSM Library plays in their professional and academic lives.
02 June 2025
RSM Chief Executive Michele Acton thanks our many volunteers for their contributions to the charity's mission to mark Volunteers’ Week 2025 (2–9 June).
23 May 2025
The RSM is seeking to appoint two Co-opted Members to join its Education Committee, with one role focusing on healthcare and the other on online education.
21 May 2025
Longstanding RSM Fellow, renowned orthopaedic surgeon and Past-President of the RSM History of Medicine Society, Professor Sean Hughes, has died of lung cancer at the age of 83.
19 May 2025
The RSM is looking for an ambitious and collaborative Chair Designate for its wholly owned trading subsidiary, Royal Society of Medicine Commercial Services Limited (RSMCS).
07 May 2025
Three of the RSM’s Section Presidents will come together for the next instalment of our popular clinical masterclass series on diabetic neuropathy, to be held at the RSM on Tuesday 20 May.
22 April 2025
Did you know we have conservation volunteers? Mara Pengler, RSM Fellow of 20 years, began volunteering in 2015. She describes working with the library’s historic collections as “like travelling back through the centuries of medicine.”
03 April 2024
‘Medicine and Me: Living Our Best Life – Examining Innovations to Deliver Optimal Care for People with Genetic Bleeding Disorders,’ run in collaboration with the Haemophilia Society.
21 March 2025
Holly Leigh Spencer, Sarah Lancaster and Alexandra Lisitsyna have been announced as the winners of this year’s Norah Schuster prize.
10 March 2025
This International Women’s Day we’re celebrating some of the women responsible for the day-to-day running of the RSM and key to making it what it is today.
26 February 2025
Michele Acton is to step down from her role as Chief Executive of the RSM this summer.
14 February 2025
On Monday 10 February we held our second Great Debate, the topic under scrutiny: should we monetise NHS data?
05 February 2025
The Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry Section scholarship programme is an exciting development opportunity for resident doctors.
31 January 2025
Highlights from our third annual Tackling Health Inequalities conference in partnership with NHS England.
21 January 2025
We are now seeking nominations for four Elected Council Members (Trustees) to take up post for a period of up to three years from 1 October 2025. The closing date for nominations is noon on Monday 17 March 2025.
03 January 2025
Congratulations to those of our members who have been recognised in the New Year Honours List 2025.
