RCS membership: The year in numbers
Thanks to the support of you, our members, here are some of our achievements so far this year.
500
5,300
Over members attended diplomats ceremonies with their families.
Over people attended 260 RCS events across the UK,
including regional, careers and library workshops and events.
38 Research
Fellowships awarded – worth £1.5m.
We responded to 22 consultations on topics including cosmetic interventions, antimicrobial stewardship and credentialing.
Over 83,000 visits to the Hunterian Museum and Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology.
90,000
Over article downloads from e-journals subscriptions for members. This works out at around 1,891 a week, 270 a day and 11 per hour.
6th
We opened our surgical trials centre and launched 11 new studies. On average our trial centres recruit 3,850 patients per year.
20
We had meetings with parliamentarians and 23 mentions in parliament.
21%
21%
We saw a increase in visitors to our website, www.rcseng.ac.uk,
1,353,579
with visitors so far this year.
548
We published articles - that’s 1,141,600 words. There were 3,778 downloads of our most popular article
‘A stressful job: are surgeons psychopaths?’
186 people joined our
11,000
Over people attended one of our courses.
Women in Surgery network, taking the total number of members to 4,812.
Make the most of your membership at www.rcseng.ac.uk