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As will be apparent, the road to becoming a separate college was long and rocky. Early paediatricians owed their main allegiance to the colleges which had looked after them during their training, and virtually all had passed the membership examination of one of these colleges and most were fellows. The Edinburgh College of Physicians for many years had a paediatric option for part of the clinical examination, but it was not until the early 1970s that the MRCP (UK) came into being with a common exam for all three colleges. There was a single UK-wide MCQ as part one with a set number of ‘overlap’ questions straddling the paediatric/adult interface. As will be seen in Chap. 7, this evolved into a completely separate paediatric examination. There was therefore a growing cohort of consultant paediatricians who did not have the same loyalty to a single ancient college and who saw themselves as an evolving specialty in their own right.
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See A History of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Ed Fry, Hunt and Pinsent; Pub MTP Press 1983.
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See Twenty five Years, Shaw, RCOG.
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Leigh, B. et al. (2017). Commentaries. In: Craft, A., Dodd, K. (eds) From an Association to a Royal College. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43582-4_2
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