Marking the centenary of the fellowship of postgraduate medicine

Abstract

The past century has seen major developments in postgraduate medicine. There have also been significant challenges to equitable provision of these medical advances into clinical services and ensuring their safe and effective use both in developed healthcare systems as well as within health services within less developed countries. The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM) is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after the First World War,1 2 with as its first president the pioneering clinician and medical educator Sir William Osler, Oxford Regius Professor of Medicine.3 The FPM led the development in London of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine. The FPM continues its interest in supporting national and international postgraduate medical education through its international journals the Postgraduate Medical Journal (PMJ) , founded in 1925, and Health Policy and Technology (HPT) , founded in 2012, and by organising conferences and workshops. …