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| Abbreviation | RACP |
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| Formation | 1938 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
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Region served | Australia & New Zealand |
Membership | 32,000[citation needed] |
Official language | English |
President | Prof. Jennifer Martin |
| Website | https://www.racp.edu.au |
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is a not-for-profit professional organisation responsible for training and educating physicians and paediatricians across Australia and New Zealand.[1]
The RACP is responsible for training both generalist and subspecialist physicians and paediatricians. The College has formal training programmes in general and acute medicine, paediatrics & child health, addiction medicine, adolescent medicine, cardiology, clinical genetics, dermatology (New Zealand only), clinical haematology, immunology and allergy, clinical pharmacology, community child health, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatric medicine, infectious diseases, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, nuclear medicine, oncology, respiratory and sleep medicine, public health medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, palliative medicine, rehabilitation, rheumatology, and sexual health medicine.[2][3] The RACP is also responsible for the ongoing education of Fellows of the College through its continuing professional development (CPD) programme.[4]
- ^ "About the RACP". The Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
- ^ RACP. "Training pathways". Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
- ^ Senate Inquiry into the Government Investment Funds Amendment Bill 2011 Submission by The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. July 2012
- ^ RACP. "Connoting Professional Developmentent". Royal Australasian College of Physicians.