e-Associates (FREE)

For medical students, Foundation Doctors and Physician Assistants

If you are a medical student or young doctor at the start of postgraduate training or a physician assistant you can become an e-Associate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for FREE. This gives you the opportunity to understand the work of the College, to benefit from the on-line medical education available through the College website and to attend College educational events at a subsidised rate.

Medical students and Foundation Doctors enrolling as e-Associates can experience the benefits of being an e-Associate for up to 5 years (and up to no later than 2 years after obtaining their primary medical qualification).

Benefits of becoming an e-Associate include -

• free access to the RCPE online general medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme, including a new section in development for trainees
• free access to our developing series of archived web-streamed symposia presentations
• preferential rates for attendance at the rolling programme of RCPE update symposia, covering general/acute medicine and the medical specialties
• free attendance at the annual Trainees & Members’ Symposium
• access to the secure section of the RCPE website, offering regular College news and items of interest to the profession
• access to the RCPE Historic Library, which hosts one of the most important medical library collections in the world
• the ability to directly influence the RCPE and medical training through representation on the Trainees & Members’ Committee, and the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) 

If you would like to become an e-Associate please complete the online registration form, you must agree to the rules of e-Associateship before you can join.

Email: e-associates@rcpe.ac.uk

Alternatively, phone 0131 225 7324

or write to:

e-Associates, Fellowship Support Unit
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.