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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 Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
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The college is responsible for education of trainees
Specialist registrar

'Specialist Registrar' A Specialist Registrar or SpR is a Physician in the United Kingdom 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 members of professional associations maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge and skills and develop the personal qualities required in their professional lives....
 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 concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of unusual or serious diseases. In North America, specialists in internal medicine are commonly called, "Internists." Elsewhere, especially in Commonwealth of Nations nations, such specialists are often called Physicians....
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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 Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
.

The college is responsible for education of trainees
Specialist registrar

'Specialist Registrar' A Specialist Registrar or SpR is a Physician in the United Kingdom 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 members of professional associations maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge and skills and develop the personal qualities required in their professional lives....
 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 concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of unusual or serious diseases. In North America, specialists in internal medicine are commonly called, "Internists." Elsewhere, especially in Commonwealth of Nations nations, such specialists are often called Physicians....
.

Main Divisions

  • Adult Medicine Division
  • Paediatrics & Child Health Division


Faculties

  • Joint Faculty 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)


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