Tomorrow's surgeons
Gain insight into a career as a surgeon. Whilst there is an immense interest in surgery among medical students, information about portfolio development and the path to becoming a surgeon can be scarce...
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Dr Melita Irving RSM Trustee
Dr Melita Irving has been an RSM Trustee since 2019 and her current term will continue until 2023. A consultant in clinical genetics at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, Melita talks here about her expe...
Event FAQs
Below you can find frequently asked questions about events. If you cannot find the answer you are looking for, please contact Customer Services. Contact Customer Services with your query. You have 48 ...
Obituary: Dr Steve Furniss
The Royal Society of Medicine is deeply saddened to hear of the sudden and unexpected death of RSM member Dr Steve Furniss. Dr Furniss, who recently retired as a consultant cardiologist at Eastbourne ...
October 2022
October 2022 Society news Special member offers Your membership of the RSM gives you access to a valuable portfolio of discounts and other perks, designed with demanding lives in mind. You will need t...
Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowships – boosting careers, changing lives
Every year the RSM awards the prestigious Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship. With awards of up to £15,000, the fellowships support senior registrars and early career consultants to undertake additi...
Catastrophic failures in the NHS can be caused by breakdowns in basic communication systems
The NHS sometimes struggles to manage basic communication systems that are often critical to the safety of patients. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Carl Macrae, of the Univer...
NHS sexual harassment violence prevention training employees
Healthcare risks falling behind other sectors in providing training to help employees address sexual harassment and violence within the workplace. A group of doctors and academics writing in the Journ...
AI in healthcare needs patient-centred regulation to avoid discrimination – new commentary
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 pati...
Systemic failures in public health system led to deaths in elderly patients
The deaths of 17 elderly people earlier this summer were the result of systemic failures in the public health system in England, according to a leading public health expert. Writing in the Journal of ...