Our mission, vision and values
Find out more about the RSM’s mission, vision and values.
About us
The RSM is a charity and one of the country's major providers of postgraduate medical education.
The Royal Society of Medicine is a leading provider of high-quality continuing postgraduate education and learning to the medical profession. Its mission is to advance health, through education and innovation.
Independent and apolitical, the RSM also aims to actively encourage and support those who are entering medicine and healthcare.
We are a Royal Charter body registered with the Privy Council, and our official Patron is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Diversity
The Royal Society of Medicine acknowledges the pain and suffering that racism has caused and continues to cause and stands in solidarity with those who pursue equity, justice, human dignity for all and an end to racism. In particular, as the current crisis has unfolded, it is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic is widening inequalities, through all the social determinants of health and well-being, which clearly include racism. We will take action to identify and redress inequalities in our organisation and to build a Society in which all are valued equally.
What we do
How we are governed
Meet the people who govern the RSM, including members of the RSM Council, Academic Board and our Senior Management team.
Job vacancies
View our latest job vacancies and learn more about working at the RSM.
Latest news
Read the latest news and activities from the RSM.
The road towards digital education at the RSM
Professor Nik Patel reports on progress towards digitally integrated education at the RSM.
Confronting the health challenges of climate change
Professor Linda Luxon explains why the impact of climate change on health needs to be moved higher up the agenda.
Joining the effort in vaccinating against COVID-19
Revising for finals, volunteering as a vaccinator; life’s a juggle for final year medical student Brian Wang.
Making up for lost time in medical education
A recent commentary published by JRSM discusses the challenges and opportunities for undergraduate clinical teaching during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Media releases
COVID-19: Schools urgently need guidelines on improving ventilation in classrooms
6 February 2021
There is an urgent need for guidelines on how schools can use ventilation to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the classroom, according to doctors at Imperial College London and the headteacher of a secondary school in Pinner, Middlesex.
COVID-19: Science scepticism may be reinforced by UK rush to approve vaccines
15 January 2021
Former director of public health Professor John Ashton has said that scientific scepticism may be reinforced by the UK’s rush to approve COVID vaccines for public use and the apparent political desire to be the first out of the blocks in contrast to our European neighbours.
COVID-19: Call for millions spent on failing privatised test and trace system to be diverted to local services
28 October 2020
A group of doctors is calling on the government to divert the hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on the failing centralised privatised COVID-19 national test and trace service into local primary care, local NHS labs and local public health services.
Covid-19: Pooled testing among recommendations to fix test, trace and isolate system
16 October 2020
In a series of recommendations to fix the struggling Covid-19 test, trace and isolate system in England, health researchers say that pooled testing for Covid-19 could significantly increase testing capacity in a relatively short space of time.
Reports
Annual reports and strategy
Read and download the RSM’s annual reports and strategy plans.
RSM Council minutes
Minutes from RSM Council meetings are available online to RSM members only. Members need to sign in to access the minutes.
Services
