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Fellowship
For consultants or consultant-equivalents
 Fellowship is awarded by the College upon nomination by existing Fellows to doctors of consultant or equivalent status from around the world. Many Fellows have been Collegiate Members, but this is not obligatory. Fellowship is also awarded to non medical persons of considerable distinction and who the College wishes to honour.
NEW Subscription Offer for RCPE Collegiate Members Progressing
to Fellowship
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Benefits of Fellowship include –
- international peer and public recognition through use of the ‘FRCP Edin’ post nominals
- membership of a network of respected clinicians sharing their expertise and experience
- a vehicle for raising collective concerns about medical developments
- support for protecting professional activities within busy working lives, including the role as trainer
- access to the full programme of online general medical CME and webstreamed lectures
- comprehensive updates for doctors in general and acute medicine and the medical specialties at preferential rates
- registration for the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme run by the RCPE and the other UK Royal Colleges of Physicians to support learning and revalidation
- quarterly print issues of The Journal of The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- opportunity to participate in projects and working groups to determine advice and future direction of education and clinical medicine
- opportunity to participate in the governance of the College through election to committees and to Council
- free access to the Historic Library, which hosts one of the most important medical library collections in the world
- hire of College facilities for professional and social activities, and accommodation in the heart of Edinburgh, at preferential rates
A brochure detailing the Benefits of Fellowship can be accessed here (PDF)
The subscription is automatically tax-deductible in the UK, offering a 22-40% reduction depending upon your tax band
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