We are the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Based in the UK, we are responsible for setting standards of training, administering examinations and awarding Fellowship and Membership of the College as well as supporting Post Graduate Doctors in Training to qualify in the specialty of Emergency Medicine.
The College works to ensure high quality patient care by setting and monitoring standards. We provide expert guidance and advice on health policy to relevant bodies on matters relating to Emergency Medicine and advocate and influence policy makers and politicians on behalf of our members and the wider specialty.
We are the membership body for more than 12,000 Emergency Medicine clinicians in the UK and across the world, and work to support them to have sustainable and satisfying careers.
We are proud to be supported by our Royal Patron, Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal.
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At RCEM our members are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to represent them and support the work they do for their patients, not just in the UK, but around the world. We offer a range of membership options which are tailored to suit and cater for EM specialists whatever their career path. To find out all about our membership option visit our member pages via the link below. If you are already a member, you can also log in to our excusive Member Portal from these pages.
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We've launched #CountMeIn - our campaign to ensure we are fully representing our members - and are asking all members to fill in their demographic pro...
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EMSAS members have decided their new Chair after two weeks of campaigning by Dr Brittliff and Dr Qureshi.
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Dr Salwa Malik, Vice President of The Royal College of Emergency Medicine with responsibility for membership, said:...
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This report identifies ongoing concerns which include staffing shortages, overcrowding, workforce burnout, bullying and harassment, time to train and ...
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Dr. Khaled Abdul Ghaffar, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, received the work of the Minister of Health and Population and a d...
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A new study from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and University of Bath has found the safe delivery of emergency care is now under seri...
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RCEM has worked closely with our exam delivery partner, Pearson VUE, to introduce new booking windows for all MRCEM & FRCEM written exams.
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Together with The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) we (RCEM) have developed www.ukraineclinicalguidance.com, a website filled wit...
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A year after the conclusion of our Exams Internal Reviews, we would like to share an update of the work...
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To mark the beginning of Pride the College has launched its first Diversity Calendar. This calendar highlights key EDI awareness days and weeks and bo...
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RCEM is seeking a new Quality Improvement Fellow to support the development of our National QI Programme
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For the avoidance of doubt: we are aware of recent comments on social media regarding ACPs in Emergency Medicine. The Royal College of Emergency Medic...
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A doctor with a life-changing illness is behind a new RCEM QIP on Time Critical Medications for safer A&E visits.
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Due to an incident with the March 2022 FRCEM SBA results, we are implementing changes to our exam results production processes. The new enhanced check...
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Guidance as for any case suspected or confirmed.
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Following the high volume of interest in the Diploma Ceremony on Thursday 1 December, we have replanned the logistics to accommodate an extra 50 gradu...
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The College would like to welcome Dr John-Paul (JP) Loughrey, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Medicine, Queen Elizabet...
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The College would like to welcome Dr Russell McLaughlin, Consultant and Clinical Director in Emergency Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, to t...
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The next EC-ACP Supervisor Training Day will take place on 29 September 2022.
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The next EC-ACP Supervisor Training Day will take place on 20 September 2022.
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The College has worked closely with Wera Hobhouse, a Liberal Democrat MP, to successfully table a debate in Parliament examining waiting times for eme...
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RCEM's members get the opportunity to have their say in the upcoming EMSAS Chair election.
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The Association for Trainee Doctors Group issued a letter to all Royal Medical Colleges via the Academy. We responded formally to this letter.
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Exam dates and application windows for 2023 have now been confirmed.
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The past months have seen significant work here at the College to address the issues...
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Delivering ‘Excellence in Emergency Care’ – that’s the aim the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has set out in its new corporate strategy.
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Following the success of Emergency Medicine Day 2024, RCEM is celebrating its GreenED team adding their voices to the climate crisis focus of EM-Day.
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HSIB focus group investigating diagnosis of non-accidental injuries in infants.
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Global action required to address the hospital Emergency Department over-crowding crisis
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An independent external review which was commissioned last year in response to an exams error which saw 50 candidates being given an incorrect pass re...
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On the anniversary of the publication of NHS England and the Government’s Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan the Royal College of Emergency Medic...
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This statement is a follow up to the joint statement issued in 2019 by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and the Society for Acute Medici...
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The British Medical Association (BMA) has announced that further industrial action by junior doctors will be taking place between 14 and 17 June 2023....
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We are launching our Winter Appeal today to support our Emergency Medicine colleagues in Uganda, who urgently need support.
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The Prime Minister talks about GP appointments but Emergency Departments are in cardiac arrest...
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Are you a member with a passion to make a difference and want to share your ideas with us?
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On Monday 16 May, we informed 50 candidates who sat the March 2022 FRCEM SBA examination that a fault occurred with our examination system, which resu...
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Over the past five years hospital admissions for eating disorders have risen by 84%. Hospital admissions of children and adolescents for eating disord...
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The Somerset town of Taunton, once again, is providing the Royal College of Emergency Medicine with stellar and esteemed representatives.
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My name is Ashleigh Lowther, I am the incoming ACP (Advanced Care Practitioner) Chair.
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Closing date - 22 June 2022 (5pm)
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The application window for the National Clinical Impact Awards is open until 05 May 2023.
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A new national pathway, outlining the best practical concepts for ensuring patients with non-ambulatory fragility fractures (broken bone caused by a f...
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New pricing structures for different aspects of the College’s services are being introduced.
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Dr Asif Malik has been appointed as East Midlands Regional Chair for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
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Dr Sarah Honess has officially taken up the post of South East England Regional Chair for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
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Dr James Gagg has been appointed as South West Regional Chair for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
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Dr Susie Dorrian has officially taken up the post of West Midlands Regional Chair for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
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The College is delighted to announce the appointments of Dr Ian Higginson, Dr Jason Long, Dr Salwa Malik, and Dr Maya Naravi to roles of Vice Presiden...
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For individuals that have demonstrated evidence of excellence in emergency care or humanitarian activities within low- and/ or middle-income countries...
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There is currently an extremely high demand for exams places, but we are planning to expand our capacity to facilitate extra places in 2023.
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An update from CEO Gordon Miles and Romana Moss, Director of Education
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An annual competition giving all the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s (RCEM) members the opportunity to submit ideas for the next Quality Improve...
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This year’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 4 October at our Annual Scientific Conference in Belfast.
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine held its Annual General Meeting this evening (26 September 2023) at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow...
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The document provides a detailed summary of the work of the college during the year.
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RCEM’s Annual Scientific Conference is a highlight of the year for many of our members, and a lot of work goes into its planning. However, the dates ...
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A guide to Breach Exemptions and how they impact official Welsh A&E attendance and waiting time data
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is seeking the views of its members regarding the role and scope of Emergency Medicine Physician Associates
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We are delighted to release the RCEM Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Calendar for 2024.
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This year we have two categories - the Research Essay Prize and the Quality Improvement Essay Prize. Find out more here.
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RCEM's 2022 Winter Appeal raised funds supporting our partners, Rawalpindi Medical University (RMU), in their relief work following the devastating im...
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RCEM will be celebrating SAS Week from 9 to 13 October by sharing and praising the great efforts of the entire specialty.
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The team has also continued long-standing collaborations with key international partners.
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We’re looking for a GPEMS Steering Group member. You will be involved in steering group meetings, writing guidelines, editing and working with other m...
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Following stories about the use of tents outside EDs to enable ambulance offloads, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the College of Paramedi...
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24 Hours in A&E - no longer just a TV show, a shameful reality for hundreds of thousands of people
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has published its policy position on Environmentally Sustainable Emergency Healthcare.
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RCEM made front page news in the Independent...
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An opportunity to hear from RCEM President Adrian Boyle on the latest clinical updates and medical challenges.
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Members of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine have voted to increase the College’s annual subscription rates...
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Since the outbreak of the current conflict in the Middle East the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has recognised the horror facing all those affec...
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Voting for one of three candidates for College President is now open. Vote before 25 February.
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Dr Katherine Henderson’s term in office as President comes to an end at the AGM in the autumn of 2022, and as such we are now seeking nominations for ...
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...to see the detrimental and damaging cultures in some Emergency Departments eradicated.
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Reacting to the news that Junior Doctors in Scotland have rejected the Scottish Government’s 14.5% pay offer...
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Today (21 June 2023) the National Audit Office (NAO) has published its ‘Access to unplanned or urgent care’ report.
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On 3 April 2022, five RCEM runners were among the 12,000 runners who ran 13.1 miles around the streets of London in the fifth edition of the London La...
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On Sunday 9 October 2022 over 16,000 participants took part in the 15th anniversary of the Royal Parks Half Marathon covering 13.1 miles past London’s...
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In celebration of Emergency Medicine Day 2024 (27 May 2024), The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has signed a treaty calling for the ‘phasi...
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has forced the Welsh Government to admit it has been misrepresenting the extent of waiting times in the...
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A red heat warning has been issued for the first time ever over large parts of the UK for Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 of July. There are forecasts of tem...
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We are immensely saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty The Queen.
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine recently experienced a technical fault that led to a small number of candidates being incorrectly informed tha...
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The College has issued the following statement regarding the situation in the Middle East.
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Last month, a team from RCEM made a visit Ghana as part of the DHSC/THET funded Global Health Workforce Programme in partnership with the Ghana Colleg...
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Are you a parent working in the NHS that would be interested in career development and support to help balance the demands work and home life?
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The RCEM has announced the provision of no cost membership for members on new parents’ leave...
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has updated its guidance for Emergency Department crowding in response to the increasing threat to timely emer...
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Professor Matt Reed sets out his aims as the new Chair of RCEM’s Research Committee and shares his Emergency Medicine story.
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Earlier this year the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) opened a consultation on
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It was recently brought to our attention that there was an oversight during the data migration from the NES ePortfolio, relating to the ‘Reflective Pr...
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EMSAS has produced a statement on Specialist Doctor appointments in EM, the aim of which is to provide some guidance regarding job descriptions for t...
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The British Medical Association has announced further industrial action by junior doctors between 7am on Wednesday 14 June 2023 and 7am on Saturday 17...
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RCEM Careers welcomes applications from Student Societies wishing to be affiliated with the College and can then request event sponsorship. All four ...
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5.15 pm on Tuesday 26 September 2023 as part of our Annual Scientific Conference in Glasgow.
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In February 2023 the Government and NHS England published its Delivery Plan for the Recovery of Urgent and Emergency Care Service...
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has agreed its position regarding Physician Associates in Emergency Medicine.
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A book which presents important need-to-know information for all those involved in treating patients in an emergency setting has just been updated and...
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The Welsh Government has today announced that all Emergency Departments in Wales will take part in RCEM’s GreenED sustainability programme.
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An opportunity to hear from RCEM President Adrian Boyle on the latest clinical updates and medical challenges.
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Our dedicated and highly experienced Events Team plan an annual calendar of events, study days and conferences aimed at the Emergency Medicine community. Taking place across the UK they provide a chance for our members to come together to learn, engage and network with their peers and leading experts in the field of Emergency Medicine. We host two main member conferences a year, our Spring CPD Conference and our Annual Scientific Conference in the autumn. Find out more about our ASC via the button below and also visit our full events calendar via the link to find out more about our other upcoming events.
Annual Scientific Conference 2024 Events Calendar
The RCEM online educational platform and resource for the Emergency Medicine community.
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We run hundreds of examinations each year, supporting thousands of candidates across the world. For more information and how to apply follow the link below.
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Ensure you are up to date with the latest Clinical Guidelines, which impact you and your patients by clicking the link below.
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