The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, or RACP, is the organisation responsible for training, educating, and representing over 9,000 physicians and paediatricians in Australia and New Zealand. It was founded in 1938.
The college is responsible for education of trainees and ongoing education for specialist physicians/paediatricians ("fellows of the college"). It also publishes two journals - The Internal Medicine Journal and The Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health, and has a foundation which provides funding for research in the field of internal medicine.
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