Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) (1938 - )

Summary

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians represents over 30,000 medical specialists and trainees across Australia and New Zealand. It provides opportunities for connecting within the profession, accredited training as specialist physicians, continuing professional development, and assessment of overseas-trained physicians. Admission to Fellowship of the College (with the post-nominal FRACP) is by completion of the post-graduate education and training requirement of the College. The College has two Divisions (Adult Medicine, and Paediatrics and Child Health), with a number of subsidiary Chapter, and three Faculties. In addition it is affiliated with 51 specialist societies. The College's History of Medicine Library, originally established as a clinical library, has a large collection of medical history items and maintains the College Roll with biographies of Fellows.

Details

The College Faculties are:
Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM);
Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM);
Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFRM).

Awards presented by the College include:
Eric Susman Prize (annually since 1962);
Neil Hamilton Fairley Medal (every 5 years, since 1969):
Honorary Fellowship is awarded to distinguished or renowned members of the medical profession and other respected and acclaimed individuals.

Journals published by the College include:
Proceedings of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians vol. 1-6 (1946 - 1951); continued by:
Australasian annals of medicine (ISSN 0571-9283) vol. 1-19 (1952 - 1970); continued by:
Australian and New Zealand journal of medicine (ISSN 0004-8291) vol. 1-30 (1971 - 2000); continued by:
The internal medicine journal (ISSN 1444-0903) vol. 31 (2001- ) published by Blackwell for the College:
The journal of paediatrics and child health (ISSN 1034-4810: online 1440-1754) vol. 1 (1960- ).

Related entries

Timeline

 1930 - 1938 Association of Physicians of Australasia
       1938 - Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)

Published resources

Books

• Heagney, Brenda, Half a century of penicillin : an Australian perspective (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1991), 22 pp. Details
• McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2 vols (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988-1994). Details
• Winton, Ronald, Why the pomegranate? : a history of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 175 pp. Details

Edited Books

• Gandevia, B. ed., Bibiliography of Australian Medicine & Health Services to 1950, 4 vols (Canberra: A.G.P.S., 1988). Details
• Wiseman, Josephine C. ed., To follow knowledge: a history of examinations, continuing education and specialist affiliations of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 234 pp. Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Royal College of Physicians: Australian Branch', Daily Advertiser (1938), 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143854163. Details

Resources

• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-464316. Details
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians, College roll, Royal Australian College of Physicians, Sydney, 2020. https://www.racp.edu.au/about/our-heritage/college-roll. Details

Resource Sections

• 'About the RACP', in Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, c.2018, https://www.racp.edu.au/about/about-the-racp. Details

See also

• Gandevia, B. H., An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Medicine in Australia (Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Co, 1957), 139 pp. Details
• Gandevia, Bryan; Holster, Alison and Simpson, Sheila, An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Medicine and Health in Australia (Sydney: The Royal Australasia College of Physicians, 1984), 187 pp. Details