What does it mean to be a Fellow?
Fellowship is an honour, denoting the esteem in which a Member
of the College is held by his or her peers. It is a mark of
achievement to which every Member should aspire and from which no
Member should be debarred solely by circumstance.
A Fellow is someone who has made a contribution to patient care,
to the College or to the discipline of general practice
significantly over and above what might reasonably be expected of
any Member of the College. In this sense, Fellowship signifies that
the Fellow has brought ‘added value’ to his or her career.
Fellowship can be merited both by the breadth and the depth of
achievement. Some Fellows earn recognition for contributions made
in a number of areas and over extended periods of time. For others,
Fellowship is an accolade marking outstanding and far-reaching
achievement in a relatively narrow field. A Fellow of the College
exemplifies its motto ‘cum scientia caritas’, and is an ambassador
for the College’s standards and values in whom the College is happy
to signal its pride.