The personalities of two of the pivotal characters in the planning and design of the RCP’s Grade I listed headquarters – RCP president Robert Platt and architect Denys Lasdun – are revealed in oral history recordings from the RCP archive.
In August 2017, librarianship student Catherine Chorley undertook a 2-week placement at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) library, surveying some of our rare books previously owned by Henry Pierrepont, Marquis of Dorchester, for important marks of earlier ownership and use.
Prior to speaking at the RCP's Acute and general medicine conference in October, Professor David Oliver writes about his passion for geriatric medicine.
Medical trainees and the shape of training are the focus of Dr Andrew Goddard's reflections, along with old friends in medicine and his acronym of the month.
Dr Andrew Goddard was joined by colleagues and local physicians as he cycled through Cornwall, Devon and Somerset seeking more signatures for the RCP500 Charter.
The experiences of prisoners of war in the far east during the Second World War have been studied for decades at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, informing modern understanding of mental and physical illness.
The clinical lead in education for the RCP's Health Informatics Unit, Dr Amitava Banerjee, reports on an event he attended in Manchester for NHS IT leaders.
Dr Louise Finch, an ST6 in geriatrics and general medicine at Ipswich Hospital, discusses her experience attending the recent Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Eastern regional update in medicine.
