Chambers T
Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
J R Coll Physicians Lond. 1992 Jan;26(1):97-100.
Conscious of its responsibilities to its Fellows and Members who are paediatricians, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is anxious to play its part, along with others, in maintaining and improving standards in paediatrics. Recognising the importance and prominence of the specialty within the generality of specialist medicine, and alongside general internal medicine, it has established a Paediatric Board, reporting directly to Council, which will deal with and advise on all matters concerning paediatrics and child health, and thus enhance the autonomy and influence of the specialty both within the College and on medical affairs in general. It will do this in close association with the British Paediatric Association (BPA) which will nominate members of the Board. In particular the RCP will continue to set standards in paediatrics through examinations, accreditation, representatives on consultant advisory appointment committees, and its membership of the GMC and the Conference of Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties, to which the Paediatric Board will make a substantial contribution. The network of regional paediatric advisers to the RCP will ensure that the Board is kept in touch with paediatric opinion throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Relationships with Scottish paediatrics and paediatricians will be important, for example, in the organisation and development of the MRCP(UK) examination and its paediatric Part II. Links with paediatricians in the Irish Republic exist through the Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training.
皇家内科医师学院（RCP）深知其对身为儿科医生的院士和会员负有责任，因此渴望与其他机构一道，在维持和提高儿科学标准方面发挥作用。认识到该专科在专科医学总体范畴内以及与普通内科并列的重要性和突出地位，学院设立了一个直接向理事会汇报工作的儿科委员会，该委员会将处理所有与儿科学和儿童健康相关的事务并提供建议，从而增强该专科在学院内部以及在一般医疗事务中的自主性和影响力。它将与英国儿科学会（BPA）密切合作开展此项工作，BPA将提名委员会成员。特别是，RCP将继续通过考试、认证、在顾问咨询任命委员会中的代表以及其在英国医学总会（GMC）和医学皇家学院及其学院会议中的成员身份来制定儿科学标准，儿科委员会将为这些工作做出重大贡献。RCP的区域儿科顾问网络将确保委员会与英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰各地的儿科意见保持联系。与苏格兰儿科学和儿科医生的关系也很重要，例如，在英国皇家内科医师资格考试（MRCP(UK)）及其儿科第二部分的组织和发展方面。通过高等医学培训联合委员会与爱尔兰共和国的儿科医生保持着联系。
