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The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is a British non-profit organisation that was founded after World War I and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine.〔John MacAlister's Other Vision: A History of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine by Gordon C. Cook, 175 pp, £29.95, ISBN 1-85775-789-0, 2005. Oxford, England〕 Its foundation in the autumn of 1919 was the results of a merger between the Fellowship of Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical Association〔John Lister. Scenes from Postgraduate Life. The history of postgraduate medicine education. Postgrad Med J 1994;70:728-731. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2397773/pdf/postmedj00046-0057.pdf Based on Lecture at 75th Anniversary Dinner of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine〕 and Sir William Osler 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, and related disciplines. The office and meeting rooms of the fellowship are in Central London. It is governed by a council that meets quarterly. ==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''. * In 2012 the Fellowship launched a new international journal:Health Policy and Technology, published on the Fellowship's behalf by Elsevier. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=3rd International Symposium on Progress on Personalizing Medicines )〕 * Since 2009, the fellowship has also arranged joint events with the Medical Society of London. - January 2009: inaugural joint debate on NICE and personalising medicine, between FPM Fellow Munir Pirmohamed and Sir Michael Rawlins. - February 2012: a debate on the challenges to the future of electronic health records. - January 2014: updates on cardiovascular disease - sudden cardiac death and intravascular treatment for heart valve disease. * The first FPM summer public lecture was delivered on 6 June 2011 by FPM Fellow Allister Vale on 'Chemical terrorism: what the clinician needs to know'. On 1 October 2015 the fellowship organised a conference 〔http://fpostgradmed.blogspot.com/2015/09/advances-in-medicine-over-past-9.html〕 to mark the 90th anniversary of the launch of the Postgraduate Medical Journal. The fellowship is a major supporter of the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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