The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation

Nonprofit organization

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 that was founded after World War I

World War I

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 and pioneered the development of postgraduate education

Postgraduate education

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al programmes in all branches of medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

. Its foundation in the autumn of 1919 was the results of a merger between the Fellowship of Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical Association and Sir William Osler

William Osler

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 became the first president of the new organisation. The fellowship is supported by national and international fellows with expertise in the practice of medicine, medical education, clinical research

Clinical research

Clinical research is a branch of medical science that determines the safety and effectiveness of medications, devices, diagnostic products and treatment regimens intended for human use...

, and related disciplines.

Current activities

The fellowship aims to achieve its objectives through publications, organising educational meetings and supporting other relevant activities.

• The fellowship has since 1925 published the international journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal
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  The Postgraduate Medical Journal was established by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine in 1925 . The Postgraduate Medical Journal continues to be the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine...
  
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• In 2012 the Fellowship will launch a new international journal:Health Policy and Technology, published on the Fellowship's behalf by Elsevier
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The fellowship hosts a range of seminars and conferences.

• In 2008, the fellowship supported the 2nd International Symposium on Progress on Personalising Medicines.
• The fellowship also supported in 2011 the 3rd International Symposium on Progress on Personalising Medicines, in partnership with the British Pharmacological Society
  British Pharmacological Society
  The British Pharmacological Society is the professional association for pharmacologists in the UK.The society was formed when a group of pharmacologists met in Oxford, UK in 1931. The learned society aims to further education within Pharmacology and also organizes meetings of the world's most...
  
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• Since 2009, the fellowship has also arranged joint events with the Medical Society of London
  Medical Society of London
  The Medical Society of London is one of the oldest surviving medical societies in the United Kingdom ....
  
  . The inaugural joint debate for the fellowship and the Medical Society of London was held in January 2009, on NICE
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   and personalising medicine, between FPM Fellow Munir Pirmohamed and Michael Rawlins
  Michael Rawlins
  Sir Michael Rawlins is the chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence .- Education :Rawlins obtained his undergraduate medical degree at St Thomas' Hospital, graduating in 1965...
  
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• The first FPM summer public lecture was delivered on 6th June 2011 by FPM Fellow Allister Vale on 'Chemical terrorism: what the clinician needs to know'.

The fellowship is a major supporter of the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Donald Singer, a clinical professor, and poet and translator Michael Hulse...

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• The winner in 2010 of the first Open International prize was New Zealand poet C. K. Stead
  C. K. Stead
  Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism....
  
   and the winner of the first NHS prize nurse and educator Wendy French.
• The 2011 Open winner was Michael Henry; the 2011 NHS prize winner Belfast dentist Paula Cunningham.
• The Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative won the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts .
• The fellowship is supporting the 2012 Hippocrates Prize and associated 3rd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine.