Royal College of Surgeons of England
The Royal College of Surgeons of England ( RCS) is the professional association of Surgeons of England and Wales.
Organization
The doctors are organized in the UK at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP ), and there are other associations such as the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The surgeons in Scotland are organized traditionally in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, in Ireland at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The RCS decreases tests, which are used in the UK to at least four years of residency training in surgery as a qualification for work as a surgeon. In particular, these are the tests as a member (Member) of the RCS ( MRCS ) and a Fellow ( FRCS ), the title can also be set by the above-mentioned three other colleges of Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. In addition, there are specialist titles such as urology or orthopedics.
Fellows and Members of the RCS are addressed with Mr ( Mister ) or Mrs, Ms, Miss in women, not with doctor, even if they have previously purchased the medical doctorate. The scheme dates back to the time when there were as surgeon with the barbers in a guild and not with the doctors. The address is in the form of a title. The same applies in some countries of the Commonwealth, but for example not all surgeons in Scotland (where it is directed by specialization ).
For RCS includes the Faculties of Dentistry ( Faculty of General Dental Practice) and oral surgeons ( Faculty of Dental Surgery ). The anesthesiologist since 1988 include the Royal College of Anaesthetics.
History
The association was founded in the 14th century as the Guild of Surgeons of London ( Guild of Surgeons within the city of London). Since surgical activities was also performed by barbers in the Worshipful Company of Barbers, there were two groups that were united in 1540 under Henry VIII to the Company of Barber- Surgeons. 1745 the two professions and parted again. 1800 received the Company of Surgeons confirmation by the king and became the Royal College of Surgeons of London, since 1843 the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Seat is in Lincoln 's Inn Field in London since 1797. The original building, designed by George Dance the Younger and built from 1805 to 1813, was replaced by a new building by the architect Charles Barry due to lack of building from 1833. The building was heavily damaged by an incendiary bomb in 1941, only the Dance designed facade ( portico ) and the library remained.
The College is one of the Hunterian Museum ( also Lincoln's Inn Field), with the collection of the surgeon John Hunter, which was bought in 1799, as the core. Advanced she was including through the collection of Richard Owen. There, the skeleton of approximately 2.3 m high Irish Giant Charles Byrne ( 1761-1783 ) is on display among others.
Prices
- Lister Medal, 1924
- Honorary Gold Medal, awarded irregularly since 1802.
- Bronze Medal, annually together with the RCP and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has been awarded since 1957 for outstanding photographic work in medicine.
- Wood Jones Medal, awarded since 1975 as a prize in anatomy.
- Bradshaw Lecture, held every two years since 1875 ( alternating with the Hunterian oration ). There is also a homonymous Bradshaw Lecture of the Royal College of Physicians.
- Hunterian Oration, since 1813. It is held by a FRCS since 1853 every two years, alternating with the Bradshaw Lecture.
- Clement Price Award, awarded every three years since 1958.
- Cheselden Medal, awarded since 2009 at irregular intervals. It is one of the highest awards of the Company.