Affiliateship is open to psychiatrists in the Specialty
Doctor,Staff Grade and other Non-Consultant Career Grade posts such
as Clinical Assistant and Associate Specialist. Other job titles
are sometimes used to describe such posts, and individual
consideration might be given to doctors in other grades, not
specified above, but who are nevertheless working in
Psychiatry.
This grade enables psychiatrists who are not in training grades
or substantive consultant posts, and who do not have the MRCPsych,
to join the College.
"Any two Members of the College may nominate a qualified Medical
Practitioner who is working as a psychiatrist in the United
Kingdom, does not hold the MRCPsych qualification, does not hold
specialist registration and who has met the criteria for
appointment to their post, as set out from time to time by the
Departments of Health in United Kingdom, which should not be an
approved training post, substantive consultant post or honorary
consultant post."
The College is keen to recruit doctors in Specialty
Doctor and Associate Specialist posts to Affiliateship,
particularly where they may have registered just for the
College CPD scheme as non-members - that scheme is now
closed.
As part of our commitment to this we are currently
waiving the one off registration fee (normally £176).
The subscription fee for July - December 2013 is £168,
inclusive of CPD.
Please send the application forms to Elizabeth Atkinson at the
Royal College of Psychiatrists
CV
form
Citation
form
Registration
form
Registered Affiliates will:
- Receive the British Journal of Psychiatry and The
Psychiatrist (formerly known as the Psychiatric
Bulletin)
- Receive notification of College conferences and events
- Receive notification of Faculty and Section meetings
- Receive notification of Divisional meetings
- Be affiliated to Faculties
- Be affiliated to a Division
- Have free online access to Evidence Based Mental Health
- Have free online access to Advances in Psychiatric
Treatment
- Participate in the College’s programme of Continuing
Professional Development.
- Be eligible to access the College’s Information Service, which
includes the full use of course stock of psychiatric texts and
journals for reference purposes as well as on-line electronic
journals
Please note that there are no post-nominals associated with the
Affiliate grade. Affiliates may describe themselves in text
as "Affiliate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists" but may not
write any abbreviation of this after their names, nor imply
the holding of any qualification of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists.