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

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. It was founded in 1938.

The college is responsible for education of trainees

Specialist registrar

A Specialist Registrar or SpR is a doctor in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland who is receiving advanced training in a specialist field of medicine in order eventually to become a consultant...

 and ongoing education

Continuing Professional Development

Continuing professional development or Continuing professional education is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives.-CPD research:...

 for specialist physicians/paediatricians ("fellows of the college"). It also publishes two journals

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 - 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

Internal medicine

Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

.

Faculties

• Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (now the independent College of Intensive Care Medicine)
• Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine
• Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine

Chapters

• Chapter of Community Child Health
• Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine
• Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine
• Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine (formerly Australasian College of Sexual Health Physicians)

External links

• Royal Australasian College of Physicians