Talk:Royal Society of Medicine

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Merge proposal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine into article section
I strongly recommend the merging of the article stub for Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine into a relevant section of the same name in Royal Society of Medicine. Looking at this article, the most efficient method would be to simply expand the description of the Proceedings... in the current Publications section.

Since its creation on 13 August 2008, there have been no further edits to the Proceedings... stub. Given that the stub contains but a couple of sentences, the proposed merge would be a minor exercise, but do better justice to both the current article and the Proceedings... stub. I have already added the very useful archive link from that stub to the current article.

The situation for the Proceedings... stub is quite different to that of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. This latter pertains to an existing journal, which while itself not highly active (not really an issue for such an article anyway) is substantive enough that any effort regarding it is best directed at improving the article, which itself shouldn't take much effort. The Proceedings... stub however, really shouldn't be left as it is. But it's highly unlikely to be elaborated on much more than it is, so merging is the best option. In the event that someting more substantive is later written justifying an article, it's just a matter of spliting it. But that's extremely unlikely in the foreseeable future Wotnow (talk) 17:21, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ I have now completed the merge of the Proceedings... journal into the 'Publications' section of this article. In practice, this didn't require any changes to the Royal Society of Medicine article, as all the information in the Proceedings... stub article was contained in (a) the publications section of this article, just laid out in list format, and (b) the links section, following my previous addition of the archives link. Wotnow (talk) 20:46, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Journals sold to SAGE
Info about journals needs updating as they have been sold to SAGE Publications. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2012/nov/23_nov.htm Nurg (talk) 20:22, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Changes to Royal Society of Medicine page

 * What I think should be changed (include citations):

Hi, there are a number of changes I would like to make to the Royal Society of Medicine page. First of all, the intro descriptive paragraph currently is:

"The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a medical society in the United Kingdom, headquartered in London.[1]

"The RSM is a Royal Charter body registered with the Privy Council, and its official Patron is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II."

We would like this to be changed to:

The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is one of the United Kingdom’s leading providers of continuing learning in healthcare. Its vision is ‘better healthcare for better lives’. It aims to achieve this by sharing learning and supporting innovation on the science, practice and organisation of medicine, through four key pillars:

Education: delivering multidisciplinary specialist and general education as well as professional development. Learning Resources: providing excellent healthcare resources. Networks: connecting those involved in and interested in healthcare. Innovation Support: leveraging expertise from across the RSM to help and inspire innovators. The RSM is a registered charity and membership organisation. It delivers multidisciplinary, specialist and general education, as well as professional development, drawing on the support of leading experts in over 50 specialist areas of medicine. Its learning resources span a wide collection of books, journals, electronic journals and online medical databases, and is home to one of the finest physical and digital medical libraries in the world. The RSM is a Royal Charter body registered with the Privy Council, and its official Patron is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.


 * Why it should be changed:

This is a more accurate description of the Royal Society of Medicine. In particular, the Royal Society of Medicine is NOT a medical society.

KarenNower (talk) 11:11, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello! I cannot implement this request as written; it is clearly promotional and not written from a neutral POV. However, if you can provide an independent source (i.e. not the RSM's website) that describes the RSM as a registered charity or otherwise supports the claim that RSM is not a medical society, I am happy to change the description of the RSM in the lead sentence to be more accurate. —Ganesha811 (talk) 11:32, 24 June 2022 (UTC)