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two years before returning to their home countries. The RCP’s scheme is the biggest of all the UK


colleges programmes with nearly 250 junior doctors currently training in the UK.


International reach Twenty percent of members and fellows currently live outside the UK, and work to improve medical standards touches every corner of the globe. Much of the RCP’s international work is guided by international director Professor David Warrell and a team of seven associate international directors, including Professor Ali Jawad (Middle East and North Africa) and Dr Fraz Mir (South Asia). Each one is responsible for a different region of the world, and leading on developing strategy and implementing projects in that region. Supporting the associate international directors


is a network of 60 international advisers in 39 countries. International advisers are local representatives who act as a point of contact between local members and fellows and the RCP. They are tasked with establishing local links for RCP projects, nominating doctors in their country for fellowship, and advising on a range of professional and educational issues.


Current international projects The RCP is a world leader in postgraduate education solutions, delivering a range of medical education workshops with partners around the world. Recent partnerships include a series of faculty development workshops in Oman, Nigeria, Ghana and the US. These include one and two-day ‘doctors as


educators’ courses, aimed at developing the skills necessary for the effective training and supervision of trainees. These intensive courses are suitable for doctors of all grades and specialties, and consist of a series of interactive workshops and problem based activities.


New initiatives Over the last two years, the RCP has been working in Oman on an innovative and novel initiative to


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Royal College of Physicians MAIRI MC CONNOCHIE


Mairi McConnochie is the Head of International Affairs at the Royal College of Physicians, responsible for developing strategy in collaboration with the international director and identifying avenues for international


collaboration. To discuss opportunities for your organisation to


partner with the RCP, or for more information on the RCP’s international projects, please email international@rcplondon.ac.uk


take recently published evidence-based guidelines (covering a global evidence base) and adapt them to suit the local culture and context. The Oman Ministry of Health funded the initiative and has been instrumental at a policy level in supporting the project from inception through to publication and implementation. An RCP team has been working alongside a


Opposite: International medical graduate symposium, Royal College of Physicians, London


Below: Inaugural meeting of the College of Physicians of East, Central and Southern Africa foundation group in Nairobi, Kenya


team of Omani clinical colleagues, enabling them to understand international evidence-led healthcare systems, develop country specific guidelines and initiate ‘change in action’. The policy value of this approach is that modest global investment generates national guideline programmes, reducing variation in care and optimising healthcare delivery costs. The team is currently examining ways in which they can extend this successful model into other countries.


Medical training in West Africa M-PACT (MDG 6 Partnership for African Clinical Training) is a three-year project in collaboration with the West African College of Physicians (WACP), funded by the Ecobank Foundation. Started in July 2014, the project aims to support the focus of UN Millennium Development Goal 6 – to ‘combat HIV/ AIDS, malaria and other diseases’, by increasing access to high-quality clinical training on managing and treating these diseases for doctors from across the region. The two colleges are working together to develop


three MDG 6 training centres in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal and deliver 18 training courses reaching more than 500 West African physicians.


Supporting a new college in East Africa The RCP is supporting the establishment of a college of physicians of East, Central and Southern Africa. Through providing mentorship, technical support, and access to a range of experts on curriculum development and fundraising, the RCP is helping senior doctors from across the region to establish the institution. The new college’s mission is ‘to improve


standards of healthcare throughout the region by providing specialist training for physicians committed to lifelong learning’. It aims to increase access to standardised, high quality postgraduate training and to address urban/rural discrepancies.


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