College News - April 2008

Latest Historical Podcasts

Podcasts of the following lectures, from the current series of Edinburgh History of Medicine Group lectures, are now available online -

• Crime Scene Edinburgh: Forensic Science in the Era of Burke and Hare
  Professor Lisa Rosner, Richard Stockton College New Jersey

• Anatomical Illustrations of the 16th Century: Vesalius and Geminus
  Professor Iain Donaldson, Honorary Librarian RCPE and Univeristy of Edinburgh

• Alexander Morison's Scottish Mental Disease Practice, 1808-1831
  Dr Mike Barfoot, University of Edinburgh

• The Heroic Anatomist: Dissection and the Stoic Ideal
  Simon Chaplin, Royal College of Surgeons of England

• Epidemiology and the Science of Detection, 1890-1960
  Professor Anne Hardy, University College London

• Away with the Fairies. What Happened to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's father, Charles Altamont Doyle?
  Dr Allan Beveridge, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline

Added 15 April 2008

29th World Congress on Internal Medicine, 16-20 September 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fellows and Members may be interested in the above event and related call for papers.

• Further details can be accessed here

Added 14 April 2008

Latest BTMH articles on the norovirus and mercury toxicity

Latest additions to the Behind the Medical Headlines (BTMH) website -

• Norovirus: an established viral plague. What is it, how does it spread and what can we do to protect ourselves?

• Mercury: answering some of the current controversies about it (updated)

Added 02 April 2008

RCPE response to Scottish Government consultation on Tooke Report recommendations

The RCPE has recently submitted its formal response to the Scottish Government consultation on Aspiring to Excellence (the Tooke Report recommendations).

• Click here to access the response

Added 01 April 2008