A delegation led by RCP president Professor Jane Dacre has visited Pakistan, participating in symposia on advancing patient care.

The RCP marked World Diabetes Day on 14 November with a multidisciplinary conference in Amman, Jordan, where diabetes prevalence stands at more than 13%.

The RCP’s first global health conference, 'Global ambition, global reach: Advancing patient care in low-resource settings', took place on Wednesday 25 October.

An RCP team led by registrar Dr Andrew Goddard is in Kampala this week, supporting the delivery of the first Physicians for Africa medical education course.

Two major milestones have been acheived in Africa this week, with Royal College of Physicians (RCP) members supporting the East, Central and Southern Africa's first Educational Leaders Meeting in Zambia, and delivering the final clinical skills course of the M-PACT infectious diseases programme i

RCP members are working with west African colleagues in Freetown this week to deliver an intensive clinical skills course.

An intensive RCP / West African College of Physicians infectious diseases training course begins in Freetown on Monday 1 May 2017.

In the sixth visit of its kind since 2014, a joint Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow team travelled to Yangon, Myanmar to deliver two intensive PACES training courses.

Two more courses have been announced for Burmese trainees preparing to take the MRCP(UK) PACES exam in Yangon in January 2017.

An RCP team travelled to Liberia last week to participate in the 40th Annual General and Scientific Meeting of the West African College of Physicians.