Medical royal colleges
There are a number of medical royal colleges in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Each is responsible for a different speciality within the medical field.
Presidents of colleges
Sir Richard Thompson- Physician-Guys & St Thomas's
Prof Norman Williams -Surgeons- Barts
Dr Archie Prentice - Pathologists
Prof Sue Bailey- Psychiatry
Dr Antony Dale Falconer - Plymouth - Gynaecology
They are general charged with supervising the training of doctors within that speciality, although that responsibility has been somewhat taken over by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board in recent years.
The medical royal colleges are listed below.
Dates below in brackets are the year of receipt of a Royal Charter. Some of these institutions, however, predate their Royal Charter by many years, for example the Royal College of Surgeons of England had been incorporated as the 'Guild of Surgeons Within the City of London' in the fourteenth century.[1]
Royal College of Anaesthetists (Est. 1992[2])
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
Faculty of Pain Medicine
Royal College of General Practitioners (Est. 1952[2])
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Royal College of Physicians of London (Est. 1518[2])
Faculty of Occupational Medicine
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
Faculty of Public Health
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Est. 1505[2])
Faculty of Dental Surgery
Faculty of Health Informatics
Faculty of Pre Hospital Care
Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
Royal College of Surgeons of England (Established 1800[2])
Faculty of Dental Surgery
Faculty of General Dental Practice
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Est. 1930[2])
Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
Royal College of Ophthalmologists (Est. 1988[2])
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Est. 1996[2])
Royal College of Pathologists (Est. 1970[2])
Royal College of Psychiatrists (Est. 1971[2])
Royal College of Radiologists (Est. 1975[2])
The medical royal colleges are represented by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
