The Royal College of Pathologists ( RCPath ) is a professional membership organisation. Its main function is the overseeing of postgraduate training, and its Fellowship Examination (FRCPath) is recognised as the standard assessment of fitness to practise in this branch of medicine.
8-530: John Oliver Pearce Edgcumbe , FRCP , (1920 â 18 October 2001) was a British medical practitioner who became Devon's first consultant haematologist . He was a collateral descendant of the painter Joshua Reynolds and co-edited, with John Ingamells , a new edition of the letters of Sir Joshua, the first for over 70 years. John Edgcumbe was born in Teignmouth in 1920, a collateral descendant of Joshua Reynolds. He married Teryll, nÊe Degwell Thomas and they had
16-650: A son and a daughter. Edgcumbe qualified in medicine from Cambridge/The London Hospital in 1946. He received his MD in 1952. He originally leaned towards neurology and won the Queen Square Prize for Neurology in 1954, but decided to specialise instead in haematology and became Devon 's first consultant haematologist. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists , president of the British Society for Haematology 1972-3 and president of
24-502: Is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II . The Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) is the main method of assessment for UK pathology training - evaluation of a candidate's training programme, indicating fitness to practise, whilst also marking the entry into independent practice and the beginning of continuing professional development. Upon successful completion, trainees are awarded Fellowship status of
32-444: Is a registered charity and is not a trades union. Its 11,000 members work in hospital laboratories, universities and industry worldwide. The College of Pathologists was founded in 1962, to optimise postgraduate training in the relatively young science of pathology, with its high importance in the diagnostic process, and the increasing range of specialist studies within it. The college received its royal charter in 1970 and its Patron
40-627: The Devon and Exeter Medical Society in 1981-2. The idea for a new edition of the letters of Joshua Reynolds had been raised in the 1980s when Brian Allen and John Edgcumbe found that they were independently collecting new material and decided to collaborate. After he retired, Edgcumbe held a visiting fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art in order to complete the work. The book was eventually published by Yale University Press in 2000, jointly edited by Edgcumbe and John Ingamells. In their review of
48-484: The Johnson Club. Edgcumbe died on 18 October 2001 at his home after suffering from prostate cancer . He was survived by his wife (died 2009) and two children. Royal College of Pathologists The Royal College of Pathologists is a professional membership organisation, to maintain the standards and reputation of British pathology , through training, assessments, examinations and professional development. It
56-576: The Royal College of Pathologists. Fellowship may also be awarded on the basis of submitted published works, though this does not contribute to the award of the Certificate of Completion of Training and is not a mark of eligibility for appointment to a Consultant post or unsupervised practice. The college runs a national scheme for overseeing of continued education of pathologists in clinical practice, as well as sponsoring workshops, lectures and courses. The following are disciplines of pathology which
64-597: The work, The Times noted that the quantity of known letters from Reynolds had swollen by almost two-thirds since the last collected edition by Frederick W. Hilles in 1929, but lamented Reynolds uninspired prose style. Records relating to the editing of the book are held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art , Yale University. Edgcumbe was a member of the Reynolds Society and
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