In the United Kingdom , some Commonwealth realms and Ireland , a medical royal college is a professional body responsible for the development of and training in one or more medical specialities .
4-470: Medical royal college , In the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth realms and Ireland, a professional body responsible for the development of and training in one or more medical specialties. Royal College may also refer to: Medical royal college They are generally charged with setting standards within their field and for supervising the training of doctors within that speciality, although
8-695: The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. The Royal Colleges are involved with international activities to improve health through education and training, with some of these efforts coordinated by the International Forum of the AoMRC. The Royal College of General Practitioners has been actively involved on an international level to help family medicine doctors have access to "contextually relevant training and development programmes". Medical colleges can seek royal patronage and permission to use
12-519: The prefix 'royal', usually also having a royal charter . The letters in brackets are commonly used for or by the institution, for example in post-nominal letters that denote membership or fellowship. Dates in brackets are the year of incorporation by Royal charter. The origins of some of these institutions may predate their incorporation by many years, for example the origins of the Royal College of Surgeons of England may be traced directly to
16-692: The responsibility for the application of those standards in the UK, since 2010, rests with the General Medical Council . In the United Kingdom and Ireland most medical royal colleges are members of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) are listed below, with their postgraduate faculties (some of which are independently members of the academy) and institutes. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges itself has one faculty of its own –
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