Preceded by the annual general meeting.

Presidential Address.

Presented by Professor John Finney.

Presented by Professor Ann Charlton.

Presented by Professor Chris Butler.

Presented by Dr Jennian Geddes. In addition to the talk, starting at 5:45pm there will be a tour of the RCP exhibition "This vexed question: 500 years of women in medicine", complementing the talk. This tour will be led by Katie Birkwood, the RCP Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian.

The Orator is: Sir Muir Gray CBE MD Consultant in Public Health, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust: Visiting Professor Oxford University for Knowledge Management in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and for Value Based Healthcare in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Muir Gray entered the Public Health Service in Oxford in 1972 after qualifying in medicine in Glasgow. He is a consultant in public health in Oxford. He has been working with both NHS En...

"The home of the Oslers in Oxford: does it have a future" - Professor Terence Ryan, "The salt glands of the domestic duck" - Dr Jerome Jephcott, and "Osler in uniform…his relaxed approach" - Mr Graham Kyle

Presented by Michael Collins

Presented by Professor Raanan Gillon. For some years Raanan Gillon has argued that the ‘four principles’ of medical ethics can provide the basis for a succinct ‘moral mission statement’ for medicine to which all doctors everywhere would be able to subscribe. In the course of his presentation he will praise the World Medical Association for recently revising its Declaration of Geneva - a contemporary version of the Hippocratic Oath - by adding (among other revisions) the principle of respect ...