College Day 2025 – in person
Fellows wishing to attend in person are required to book in advance. All bookings for in person attendance, requests to vote in person for the election of the president, and dinner must be made by Monday 7 April 2025. We regret we are not able to accept walk-in registrations.
Dinner bookings can be made by clicking on the Fellows dinner tab above.
All fellows are automatically registered for online attendance on College Day. Fellows will receive an email by Friday 7 March 2025 which will include a link to watch the full broadcast. This email will be sent from no-reply@eckoenterprise.net.
If you have not received an email by Monday 10 March 2025, please let us know via rcpevents@rcp.ac.uk or 020 3075 2389. We encourage you to access the website as soon as you have received the email. This will help to ensure that you do not have any issues in accessing the broadcast page and associated documentation on the day.
College Day papers
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Log in to your account12.30–1.15pm - Pre-registered fellows to collect ballot papers to vote in person for the presidential election
1.30–2pm
Special general meeting – presidential election
Dorchester Library – in-person admission to pre-registered fellows or online access to fellows only
2pm - Refreshments
3.30–4.30pm
FitzPatrick lecture 2025: The history of intensive care medicine – a specialty moulded by infection
Dr Jack Parry-Jones, consultant in adult intensive care medicine, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
Seligman Lecture Theatre – in-person admission to pre-registered fellows only or online access for all.
4.30pm - Refreshments
5–6pm
Samuel Gee lecture 2025: Less medicine and more care – the role of palliative care in the NHS
Professor Fliss Murtagh, professor of palliative care, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull.
Seligman Lecture Theatre – in-person admission to pre-registered fellows only or online access for all.
6pm - Refreshments
6.30pm
Announcement of result of the presidential election
Dorchester Library – in-person admission to pre-registered fellows or online access to fellows only.
7–7.30pm
Fellows dinner
For pre-booked guests only.
Fellows are invited to join us for dinner, those who wish to do so should book separately by clicking on the link below. All bookings for dinner must be made by Monday 7 April 2025.
Online attendance
The Samuel Gee lecture is free and online access is open to all. If you have colleagues, family or friends interested in attending, please direct them here to book their place.
History of the Samuel Gee lecture
The lecture was established by a bequest from Miss Edith Thyra Gee in 1964 in memory of her father, Dr Samuel Jones Gee who died in 1911.
Samuel Gee, a fellow, had a longstanding relationship with the RCP. He was the Goulstonian lecturer in 1871, Bradshaw lecturer in 1892 and Lemleian lecturer in 1899 as well as senior censor. He was appointed physician to the Prince of Wales (later King George V) in 1901. His book Medical Lectures and Aphorism contains all of his lectures given at the college.
Gee is recognised as one of the greatest medical experts of his day and one of the greatest clinical teachers of the Victorian era. He was the first to identify coeliac disease and wrote extensively on medical topics such as chickenpox, scarlet fever and tubercular meningitis.
Online attendance
The FitzPatrick lecture is free and online access is open to all. If you have colleagues, family or friends interested in attending, please direct them here to book their place.
History of the FitzPatrick lecture
The lecture was founded by a gift from Mrs Agnes Letitia FitzPatrick in 1901, in memory of her husband Dr Thomas FitzPatrick who passed away in 1900. The FitzPatrick lecture is delivered annually on the subject of 'The history of medicine' and the first lecture was held in 1903.
Dr Thomas FitzPatrick was born in Virginia, a small Irish country town and graduated at Trinity College in Dublin. He was a noted linguist who joined the East India Company as an assistant surgeon, served in Bengal and returned to London after an illness, where he practised in Sussex Gardens. He wrote about the social and sanitary conditions of the labouring classes in Ireland.
Date
14 April 2025
Location
RCP Regent's Park, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4LE
14 April 2025
Royal College of Physicians of London, RCP Regent's Park, 11 St Andrew's Place, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4LE