"Section for General Practice and Primary Care"

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Shining a spotlight on three RSM Sections

Section presidents play a pivotal role in leading the RSM’s educational programmes, working with their section councils to develop and plan impactful and relevant events in their specialist areas. To ...

Dame Lesley Regan appointed Women's Health Ambassador

The Royal Society of Medicine welcomes the appointment of RSM Fellow Dame Lesley Regan as the Government’s first Women’s Health Ambassador for England. The Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at I...

COVID-19: Cuba offers UK salutary lesson in ‘shoe-leather’ epidemiology

Cuba’s successful containment of COVID-19 through door-to-door screening of every home in the country, shows how ‘shoe-leather’ epidemiology could have averted the dramatic failure of the UK’s respons...

Professor Roger Kirby becomes President of the Royal Society of Medicine

On Tuesday 28 July 2020, Professor Roger Kirby was inaugurated as President of the Royal Society of Medicine. He takes over from Professor Sir Simon Wessely and will hold office for three years. Profe...

Engaging with Shakespeare to humanise medicine

Earlier this month Dr David Jeffrey, writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine*, suggested that a study of Shakespeare’s plays may be a creative way of enhancing empathic approaches in m...

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The Roger Bannister Memorial Lecture

Join us to explore our current understanding of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and how we can continue to learn by researching common conditions, such as Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS). Thro...
  • Date Tue 19 Jul 2022
  • Price £24 - £141
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Compassion is vital in the regulation of medical professionals

Compassionate regulation was a recurrent theme throughout a recent episode of the RSM’s In Conversation Live webinar series, with guest Professor Iqbal Singh CBE interviewed by RSM President Professor...

Joint winners triumph in Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year finals

Colorectal trainee surgeon Doctor Jonathan Evans and neurology trainee Dr Peter Jenkins have been named joint winners of the Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year Award for 2017/18. In a hotly contested fi...

Meet Jonathan Evans: Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year finalist

On Thursday 17 January five young doctors will compete for the coveted title of Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year. Marking the culmination of the Royal Society of Medicine’s 2017/18 prize programme for...

Tackling inequalities: could Covid’s legacy be a great redistribution of health?

Few events have more vividly and visibly highlighted the UK’s growing health inequalities than the COVID-19 pandemic. But could the nation’s sobering awakening actually become the catalyst for meaning...