The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is organising its Centenary Conference, which is to be held on 7th December at the Royal
College of Physicians in London. The December 2018 FPM Centenary Conference will include a poster
awards session showcasing national and international studies aimed at Transforming Health. The Conference will be eligible for 6 CPD points.
Talks by expert
clinicians will provide updates on best medical practice in diagnostics and new
therapies with regard to common serious clinical disorders, ranging from lung
disease to cancer, stroke and cardiac disease, liver problems and other serious clinical disease. Speakers
will also discuss management of new clinical challenges, including antibiotic
resistance, the impact of ageing on co-morbidity, and other important current
challenges for clinical practice.
Speakers and discussants
will include Professor
Christopher Byrne, University of Southampton on Identifying and
managing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Professor
Peter Barnes FRS, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, with
updates
on treating asthma and COPD, Professor
Tom Kirkwood CBE, University of Newcastle, on ageing, health and
multi-morbidity, Professor
Sir Munir Pirmohamed, University of Liverpool NHS Chair of
Pharmacogenetics on applying personalised medicine in clinical practice. Dr Tim Nicholson,
Institute of Psychiatry, King’s Medical School, on functional
neurological disorders and Professor Anthony Rudd,
Guy’s and St Thomas’s, National Clinical Director for Stroke with NHS England,
on reducing
the severity of stroke. FPM President Donald Singer FPM journal editors Bernard
Cheung (Postgraduate Medical Journal) and Ken Redekop (Health Policy and Technology) will give a brief overview of the FPM and
its activities.
The FPM is a British
non-profit organisation founded in the autumn of 1919 as a merger of the
Fellowship of Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical Association, with Sir
William Osler as its first president. Its initial aims were the development
of educational programmes in all branches of postgraduate medicine. The FPM now
organises clinical and research meetings and publishes two journals. The FPM
has since 1925 published the international journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal.
In 2012 the Fellowship launched a new international journal, Health Policy and
Technology, published on the Fellowship’s behalf by Elsevier.
The Postgraduate Medical Journal publishes topical
reviews, commentaries and original papers on themes across the medical
spectrum. It provides continuing professional development for all doctors, from
those in training, to their teachers, and active clinicians, by publishing
papers on a wide range of topics relevant to clinical practice. Papers
published in PMJ describe current practice
and new developments in all branches of medicine; describe relevance and impact
of translational research on clinical practice; provide background relevant to
examinations; and papers on medical education and medical education research.
The FPM’s peer-reviewed journal Health Policy and Technology
focuses on past, present and future health policy and the role of technology in
clinical and non-clinical national and international health environments. It
aims to foster closer links with policy-makers, health professionals, health
technology providers, patient groups and academia.
Further ways in
which the FPM will mark its anniversary
include introducing a new Associate Member category for the FPM and
launch of new international awards for excellence in medical writing by doctors
in social media.
The new
Associate Member category for the FPM will be open to doctors in established
postgraduate training posts, to senior doctors in established posts and to
other experts who are interested in postgraduate medicine. Authors and
reviewers for the official journals of the FPM – Health Policy and Technology
and the Postgraduate Medical journal will be entitled to a reduced membership
fee for their first year as Associate Members. Benefits for Associate Members
will include a reduction in the registration fee for attending FPM educational
events and a reduced annual electronic subscription to the PMJ or HPT journal.
See the FPM website for more details about how to apply to become anAssociate Member of the FPM .
The FPM will
also launch international awards to recognise best social media writing on
medical themes. To be eligible, articles
should be aimed at increasing understanding by the public and health
professionals of important health-related issues. Articles published online
since 1st January 2018 will be eligible.
Up to 5 awards
of £100 each will initially be made – one for each major geographical region:
the Americas, Europe, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia/New
Zealand. The judging panel will include
health professionals from the FPM and from the Editorial Boards of HPT and the
PMJ and experts in social media. Winning writers will have the opportunity to
publish their award-winning article in HPT or the PMJ, depending on the theme
of the article.
