Disappointment – the 1930 Report ignores the FM and most of its deliberations, and poor relationships with the new Postgraduate School

It will by now be clear to the reader that incorporated in the two government reports (see Chapters 8 and 10) - which led to the establishment of the BPMS - were many recommendations that had originated at meetings of the FM. Why was it therefore that this pioneering organisation was neither acknowledged in the reports, nor officially represented on the Committee of the British (later Royal) Postgraduate Medical School? In this chapter I seek to unravel the issues involved from the point of view of the FM.