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The Royal Society of Medicine

The Royal Society of Medicine is an independent, apolitical organisation, founded over 200 years ago.

It is one of the largest providers of continuing medical education in the UK.

It provides accredited courses for continuing professional development, which is so vital in allowing doctors, dentists, veterinary surgeons and other healthcare professionals their continuing freedom to practise.

Their aims are:

	to provide a broad range of educational activities and opportunities for doctors, dentists and veterinary surgeons, including students of these disciplines, and for allied healthcare professionals.
	to promote an exchange of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation of medicine, both within the health professions and with responsible and informed public opinion.

There are excellent Thursday afternoon dermatology/dermatopathology meetings. Please see their web site for details: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/smtderma.php

The Royal College of Pathologists

The College is a professional membership organisation committed to excellence in the practice of pathology. Our 7700 members and fellows work in hospital laboratories, universities and industry worldwide.

The College aims to advance the science and practice of pathology, furthering public education and promoting research in pathology and to disseminate the results.

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Tel: 020 7451 6700; Fax: 020 7451 6701

Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Pathological Society has been in existence for almost a century with the objects of advancing pathology and allied sciences. Membership is in no way geographically restricted and includes individuals from all five continents. The elected committee actively pursues an outreach policy and in recent years has developed or strengthened links with like societies in other countries such as The Netherlands, Hungary and Japan.

Though concerned with diseases and disease processes the Society (which has the official status of a charity) is lively, active and interactive. This is reflected in its meetings, its journals and its sponsorship of students both undergraduate and postgduate.

The British Association of Dermatologists

The British Association of Dermatologists is the central and long-established association of practising UK dermatologists, and our aim is to continually improve the treatment and understanding of skin disease.

The National Specialist Dermatopathology EQA Scheme

The National Specialist Dermatopathology (NSD) EQA Scheme is a United Kingdom and Eire wide scheme set up with the support of the Royal College of Pathologists Dermatopathology Subcommittee with the aims of education (exchange of ideas and dispersal of new knowledge) and ensuring the highest standards of performance in diagnostic histopathology. It is designed for specialists in dermatopathology and is aimed at a level to conform to the equivalent of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) specialist skin cancer MDT work. Non-neoplastic cases are aimed at a similar level. The scheme includes lymphoma and sarcoma involving the skin. For further information please contact Mark Bamford mark.bamford@uhl-tr.nhs.uk 0116 2541414 ext 2184 www.nsdeqa.co.uk