Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Professor O Grady is Examiner of the Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Visiting Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of London. 

This book has grown considerably since the first edition in 1993. The fifth edition is the most comprehensive of all editions to date and reflects the increasing complexity of the speciality. The enthusiastic uptake of this book is a tribute to The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of The Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom who have done so much to sponsor the discipline leading to the discipline achieving the status of specialist recognition. 

One of the developments that has contributed substantially to the improved quality of drug development is the emergence of Pharmaceutical Medicine. Pharmaceutical Medicine is the discipline concerned with the medical aspects of research, development, evaluation, registration, monitoring and marketing of medicines in the interest of patients. In Great Britain a Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine was introduced in 1975, and in 1989 the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine was established as part of the Royal College of Physicians. Subsequently, similar developments took place in other countries. 

The new discipline of pharmaceutical medicine is a speciality which has only very recently become recognized in its own right as a speciality within medicine. Indeed, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians was only founded in 1989 in the United Kingdom and the Academy in the United States even more recently in 1993. Like many new ventures, this new medical speciality is not seen by all today as one of the premiere medical roles. However, there is a growing involvement of academics within the pharmaceutical industry and Nobel prize-winning... 

The CEPM has approved diploma courses in pharmaceutical medicine in United Kingdom (2), Switzerland, Belgium, Spain (2) and Sweden. The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (London) has recognised two diplomas, in Belgium and Switzerland, as equivalent to the United Kingdom. 

The Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine was established in 1976 by the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom. The diploma is awarded by examination once a year by the board of examiners of the RCPs Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. The examination is knowledge based and comprises MCQs, short questions, essays and an oral. 

Theoretical training comprises 360 hours. The diploma examination for physicians comprises written papers, MCQs and oral. The diploma is recognized by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine as equivalent to that in the United Kingdom. 

The diploma is recognised by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (London) as being equivalent to that of the United Kingdom. 

There has been much published on the incidence, detection and prosecution of publication fraud, rather less on fraud and misconduct in clinical research, but we should be equally concerned about research fraud. The Consensus Conference on Misconduct in Biomedical Research convened by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1999 defined research misconduct as behavior by a researcher, intentional or not, that falls short of good ethical and scientific standards . Frank Wells, co-founder of MedicoLegal Investigations Ltd., the only specialist research fraud investigation company in Europe, prefers the generation of false data with the intention to deceive . 

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom www.fpm.org.uk... 

Dr. Edwards is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at Temple University Graduate School of Pharmacology. He has taught for the Pharmaceutical Education Research Institute for over 12 years and was on the teaching faculty of the National Association of Physicians. He is a founder member of the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians. Dr. Edwards has homes in New Jersey and Florida. 

Professor Griffin is on the Board of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Examiners of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, and serves on the Task Force on Specialist Medical Training in Pharmaceutical... 

PETER D. STONIER, BA, BSc, PhD, MBChB, MRCPsych, FRCP, FRCPE, FFPM has 24 years experience in pharmaceutical medicine. He was Medical and Board Director of the UK Hoechst Group of companies until he became a consultant in 2000. He is immediate past-President of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians UK. Formerly he was President of the International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Chairman of the British Association of Pharmaceutical Physicians. He is Visiting Professor in... 

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