Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) is the coordinating body for the United Kingdom and Ireland's 23 Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties. It ensures that patients are safely and properly cared for by setting standards for the way doctors are educated, trained and monitored throughout their careers. The presidents of these organisations meeting regularly to agree direction.

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Established1974
HeadquartersClerkenwell, London, England
Region served
United Kingdom
Websitewww.aomrc.org.uk

Established in 1974 as the Conference of medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties, it was renamed the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in 1996.[1]

It has established one Faculty of its own - The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), which is jointly administered by the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of General Practitioners.

List of chairs of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

The Chair is the elected head of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Their term of officer is up to three years.

  • Dame Fiona Caldicott 1996
  • Professor Narendra Babubhai Patel 1997
  • Professor Roderick Norman McIver MacSween
  • Professor Sir Alan Craft (2004 to 2007)
  • Professor Dame Carol Black (2007 to 2009)
  • Professor Sir Neil Douglas (2009 to 2012)[2]
  • Professor Terence Stephenson (2012 to 2015)[3]
  • Professor Dame Susan Bailey (2015 to 2017)[4]
  • Professor Carrie MacEwen (2017 to 2020)
  • Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard (2020 to present)

Committees & other subgroups
  • Academy Education Committee
  • Academy Foundation Programme Committee
  • Academy Specialty Training Committee
  • Academy Assessment Committee
  • Academy Trainee Doctors' Group
  • Academy Patient/Lay Group
  • Academy Infection Training Working Party
  • Academy Project Governance Committee
  • Academy Health Inequalities Forum
  • UK Donations Ethics Committee
  • Revalidation Project Governance Committee
  • Directors of Continuing Professional Development
  • International Forum

Members

There is a separate Scottish organisation: The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland.

See also

References
  1. "About us". Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Archived from the original on 6 September 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. "Professor Sir Neil Douglas". The University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. "RCPCH President elected Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges". Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  4. Vaidya, Abhay (28 January 2015). "Professor Dame Sue Bailey to Open Bolton Health Mela". National Forum for Health and Wellbeing. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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