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.
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.
Q&A with Nik Patel: meet the new Chair for RSM Academic Board
On 1 October 2019 consultant cardiologist Professor Nikhil Patel became Chair of the RSM’s Academic Board. As he began preparing to take on this influential role, he spoke to the RSM about the plans for his term of office.
Meet Michele Acton: The Society’s new Chief Executive
How will ex-investment banker and former Chief Executive of the UK’s largest charity funding pioneering eye research make the transition to leading an organisation whose mission is to advance health, through education and innovation? New RSM Chief Executive Michele Acton sets out her stall.
President's update: October 2019
Read the latest President's update from Sir Simon Wessely.
RSM members honoured at Zenith Global Healthcare Awards 2019
Former RSM President Professor Sir Michael Rawlins and former President of the RSM Surgery Section Professor William Thomas were honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the prestigious Zenith Global Healthcare Awards 2019.
Media releases
Use of locum doctors rising despite limited evidence on quality and safety
12 November 2019
There is little hard evidence to support the widely held perception that locum doctors present a greater risk of causing harm to patients, according to new research published by the JRSM.
Emotional trauma and fear most likely cause of ‘Havana Syndrome’
1 November 2019
The cause of the mystery illness among US and Canadian diplomats in Havana is most likely to be emotional trauma and fear according to a leading sociologist and an expert in neurodegenerative diseases.
Systemic failures in public health system led to deaths in elderly patients
23 August 2019
The deaths of 17 elderly people earlier this summer were the result of systemic failures in the public health system in England, according to a leading public health expert.
Call for green burial corridors alongside roads, railways and country footpaths
5 July 2019
A leading public health expert is calling for a strategic initiative to develop green burial corridors alongside major transport routes because British graveyards and cemeteries are rapidly running out of room.
Reports
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
