Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners by Assessment

In all the medical Royal Colleges Fellowship is a higher grade than membership of the College, but in the great majority of Royal Colleges Fellowship is awarded by election to a minority of the members who have been judged by the Council of the College, or by a relevant sub-committee, to have achieved professional distinction. This is the arrangement in the Royal Colleges of Physicians, General Practitioners, Pathologists. Psychiatrists and the newer Colleges of Ophthalmology and Anaesthetics.