There are a number of medical royal colleges in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Each is responsible for a different speciality within the medical field. They are general charged with supervising the training of doctors within that speciality, although that responsibility has been somewhat taken over by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board in recent years.
The medical royal colleges are listed below. Dates below in brackets are the year of receipt of a Royal Charter. Some of these institutions, however, predate their Royal Charter by many years, for example the Royal College of Surgeons of England had been incorporated as the 'Guild of Surgeons Within the City of London' in the fourteenth century.
- College of Emergency Medicine
- Royal College of Anaesthetists (Est. 1992)
- Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
- Faculty of Pain Medicine
- Royal College of General Practitioners (Est. 1952)
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
- Royal College of Physicians of London (Est. 1518)
- Faculty of Occupational Medicine
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
- Faculty of Public Health
- Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Est. 1505)
- Faculty of Dental Surgery
- Faculty of Health Informatics
- Faculty of Pre Hospital Care
- Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Royal College of Surgeons of England (Established 1800)
- Faculty of Dental Surgery
- Faculty of General Dental Practice
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Est. 1930)
- Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Royal College of Ophthalmologists (Est. 1988)
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Est. 1996)
- Royal College of Pathologists (Est. 1970)
- Royal College of Psychiatrists (Est. 1971)
- Royal College of Radiologists (Est. 1975)
The medical royal colleges are represented by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
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