Strategy 2021–2026
Learn more about our 2021–2026 strategy, in which we share our plans for delivering our vision: better healthcare for better lives.
The RSM is a charity and one of the country's major providers of postgraduate medical education.
The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a registered charity and membership organisation. Our vision is better healthcare for better lives. By sharing learning and supporting innovation, our goal is to be the leading provider of continuing learning to healthcare professionals.
We deliver multidisciplinary, specialist and general education, as well as professional development, drawing on the support of leading experts in over 50 specialist areas of medicine. We have a global network of 20,000 members. Bringing together healthcare professionals across specialties, we offer a range of membership options for every career stage, from students to retirement.
Our learning resources span a wide collection of books, journals, electronic journals and online medical databases. We are home to one of the finest physical and digital medical libraries in the world. We connect those involved and interested in healthcare and, by leveraging expertise from across the RSM, we support, help and inspire the innovators developing the medical products and services of tomorrow.
The RSM is a Royal Charter body registered with the Privy Council. Our patron is His Majesty King Charles III.
Learn more about our 2021–2026 strategy, in which we share our plans for delivering our vision: better healthcare for better lives.
Meet the people who govern the RSM, including members of the RSM Council, Academic Board and our Senior Management team.
Learn how the RSM, established in the rooms of a barristers’ chambers at Gray’s Inn, grew from humble beginnings to take up residence in London’s medical quarter.
Read the latest news and activities from the RSM.
06 December 2024
Professor Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, NHS England, on the Tackling Health Inequalities programme
28 November
People with Long COVID use the health service significantly more than they did before their diagnosis.
06 November 2024
Jacklin Kwan is the winner of the 2024 Sarah Hughes Trust Prize, awarded annually for new journalism that exposes false or misleading information in health or medicine.
1 November 2024
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) has been ranked as one of the world’s top ten general medicine journals for the first time.
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Minutes from RSM Council meetings are available online to RSM members only. Members need to sign in to access the minutes.
The Royal Society of Medicine is committed to environmental sustainability and tackling climate change.
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