Our 10,000 Fellows, Members, Licentiates and Trainees work across 25 medical specialties in 84 countries.
This network provides the knowledge, expertise and commitment that allows us to train and educate doctors and drive constant improvements in patient care.
Our Members identify themselves with the post-nominal letters MRCPI. Our Fellows use the post-nominal FRCPI.
We have four international Academies: India, Oman, China (Hong Kong) and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai). Our Chapters promote our activities in their regions and provide assistance and support for examinations, meetings, Masterclasses and courses
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (MRCPI) is achieved through examination and is highly regarded internationally.
MRCPI examinations are available in three specialties:
Both the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine offer Membership examinations, which are essential components of Higher Specialist Training and valued by healthcare employers worldwide.
We also offer Diploma examinations in:
We are committed to creating a healthier society.
As an independent organisation representing thousands of doctors, we are a united, powerful voice that can influence national health policies to ensure they are in the best interests of people’s health.
We currently have policy groups in five key areas:
Professor Mary Horgan is the 142nd, and first female President, of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Professor Horgan is a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine at Cork University Hospital.
As president, Professor Horgan chairs our Executive and Council, and is actively involved in many other areas of our College.
She also serves on the Board of the Health Products Regulatory Authority and the Mercy University Hospital, the Governing Body of UCC, formerly a Board Member of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service and previous Chair of the Council of Deans of Medical Schools of Ireland.
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