I am about to start FY1 and have no idea which royal college of physicians to join. I know the Royal colleges have memberships for those in foundation training. Is there any real difference between them? I know the MRCP exams are joint but are the elearning and CPD content different?
Hi I am Addy,
I am the mother of three cats. I am also the Chair of the Trainee and Members Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. I became Chair in October 2019 just before the global pandemic so this past year has been a bit of a learning curve for me. I am passionate about ensuring we get great training here in the UK and work closely with all three Royal Medical Colleges to achieve this. I am also super passionate about promoting women and minority groups in leadership roles within medicine. This year I helped launch the Associate Regional Advisor network with the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh to give doctors more opportunities to take on leadership roles earlier on in their careers. I am an ST7 in Geriatric Medicine working in the North East with a specialist interest in dementia and delirium. I have just been offered a post as a consultant in the North East so I am super excited to be reaching the next stage soon. I am happy to chat about any of the above. Whether you want to know more about what is happening with training, whether you want tips on how to approach getting a consultancy post, or whether you want to know more about representation roles and leadership, but especially happy to hear from anyone with fur babies. Happy to chat.
Hello all,
I'm planning to take the RCPSC IM exam next year. I've heard there are old questions floating around on the net and so I was hoping to make some connections on here to get access to them.
Also I was wondering if there are any really good textbooks and other reading materials that should be on my reading list.
Cheers!
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>“This is one of the most important things in the crisis — getting testing right,” said Professor Nicholas Talley, who edits the Australian Medical journal, and a former president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
A spokesperson for the TGA said the Doherty Institute in Melbourne would be assessing how the tests perform to ensure they are used in the best way possible.
I wanted to post this -yet again- to keep it fresh, in lieu of misinformation out there from non-vapers and unfortunately, vapers as well.
Let me remind everyone that the Royal College of Physicians is one of the most prestigious organizations in the world, and the first one to warn us about the link between smoking, cancer and cardiovascular deceases in 1962.
Key recommendations
- Smoking is the biggest avoidable cause of death and disability, and social inequality in health, in the UK.
- Provision of the nicotine that smokers are addicted to without the harmful components of tobacco smoke can prevent most of the harm from smoking.
- Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is most effective in helping people to stop smoking when used together with health professional input and support, but much less so when used on its own.
- E-cigarettes are marketed as consumer products and are proving much more popular than NRT as a substitute and competitor for tobacco cigarettes.
- E-cigarettes appear to be effective when used by smokers as an aid to quitting smoking.
- E-cigarettes are not currently made to medicines standards and are probably more hazardous than NRT.
- However, the hazard to health arising from long-term vapour inhalation from the e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco.
- Technological developments and improved production standards could reduce the long-term hazard of e-cigarettes.
- There are concerns that e-cigarettes will increase tobacco smoking by renormalising the act of smoking, acting as a gateway to smoking in young people, and being used for temporary, not permanent, abstinence from smoking.
- However, the available evidence to date indicates that e-cigarettes are being used almost exclusively as safer alternatives to smoked tobacco, by confirmed smokers who are trying to reduce harm to themselves or others from smoking, or to quit smoking completely.
- There is a need for regulation to reduce direct and indirect adverse effects of e-cigarette use, but this regulation should not be allowed significantly to inhibit the development and use of harm-reduction products by smokers.
- However, in the interests of public health it is important to promote the use of e-cigarettes, NRT and other non-tobacco nicotine products as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking in the UK.
[Link](https://www.rcplondon.
... keep reading on reddit ➡I've seen that the RCP are going to hold a review of their opposition to legalising cannabis. Does anybody know where you can find the timescales on when they'll be doing that? I'm guessing it is not a particularly fast process, orgs like that don't rush anything.
It'll make big news if they retract their opposition and would be a major step towards legalisation in the UK. Wouldn't surprise me if they've had a nudge from somebody to have a look at their policies in exchange for some cash.
Anyway, anybody got a clue?
