e-Associates (FREE)

For medical students, Foundation Doctors and Physician Assistants

If you are a medical student or young doctor at the start of postgraduate training or a physician assistant you can become an e-Associate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for FREE. This gives you the opportunity to understand the work of the College, to benefit from the on-line medical education available through the College website and to attend College educational events at a subsidised rate.

Medical students and Foundation Doctors enrolling as e-Associates can experience the benefits of being an e-Associate for up to 5 years (and up to no later than 2 years after obtaining their primary medical qualification).

Benefits of becoming an e-Associate include -

• free access to the RCPE online general medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme, including a new section in development for trainees
• free access to our developing series of archived web-streamed symposia presentations
• preferential rates for attendance at the rolling programme of RCPE update symposia, covering general/acute medicine and the medical specialties
• free attendance at the annual Collegiate Members’ Symposium
• access to the secure section of the RCPE website, offering regular College news and items of interest to the profession
• access to the RCPE Historic Library, which hosts one of the most important medical library collections in the world
• the ability to directly influence the RCPE and medical training through representation on the Collegiate Members’ Committee, and the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) 

If you would like to become an e-Associate please complete the online registration form, you must agree to the rules of e-Associateship before you can join.

Email: e-associates@rcpe.ac.uk

Alternatively, phone 0131 225 7324

or write to:

e-Associates, Fellowship Support Unit
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.