Media

The Royal Society of Medicine is one of the country’s major providers of postgraduate medical education for doctors, dentists, vets and other health professionals. The Society is not a policy-making body and we do not issue guidelines or standards of care. We have nearly 60 Sections which each provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion. Sections cover disciplines as diverse as medical genetics and clinical hypnosis to palliative care and sleep medicine. The membership of Sections changes frequently but we can usually find experts to give you a background briefing or a quote.

Note to journalists: Please contact the media office for further information on our sections, and not section administrators.

Over 450 wide-ranging academic and public meetings are held at the RSM every year. Journalists can visit our diary page to view forthcoming meetings.

RSM media releases can be found below or via the links on the right.

Contact the Media Office about:

• press passes for our meetings,
• papers from our journals, including our flagship monthly, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,
• filming on our premises,
• our media e-bulletin - for a monthly update on our forthcoming cutting-edge meetings.

 

Latest releases

20 November 2009	Cosmetic surgery patients at more risk than ever A special edition of the journal, Clinical Risk, published today by the Royal Society of Medicine, looks at how the combination of an under-regulated market, "professional greed", increased marketing and overwhelming media hype have created a "perfect storm" that threatens patients and practitioners alike.
13 November 2009	Student poster prize winner announced
12 October 2009	Allergic disease costs NHS Scotland £130 million a year and is "worse than in England" The most comprehensive and detailed review of the burden posed by allergic disease in Scotland concludes that one in three of the Scottish population are affected by allergies at some point in their lives – higher than in England.
2 July 2009	examdoctor has all the questions for MDU members Doctors and medical students who are facing examinations in the next few months can get extra help with their revision thanks to an online resource called examdoctor which is now available to MDU members with an exclusive discount of 33 per cent.