Your dues at work

We know how important it is for you to know where your dues go as Fellows of the Royal College.

Here’s an explanation of where your money is being invested.

Let’s start with the most recent annual membership fee for 2025/2026 for Fellows living and practising in Canada - $1080

This $1080 is invested in 5 key areas:

Protecting and enhancing the designation
Supporting members in learning and practice improvement
Community building and recognition
Advocating for members and system improvement, and
Research

Protecting and enhancing the designation

Of your $1080, $428 covers activities to protect and enhance the Royal College designation.

This includes:

assessing the quality of postgraduate and continuing medical education programs,
maintaining the system of specialties and medical education frameworks, and
confirming whether current and future specialists meet established standards of excellence.

All of these activities ensure the designation meets the needs of Fellows and medical regulatory authorities.

This is an investment in:

Credentialling of future members of the profession
Development and maintenance of specialty standards and the evolution of residency education through initiatives like Competence by Design
Accreditation of postgraduate and continuing professional development institutions, providers, and programs
Development and implementation of medical education frameworks, including CanMEDS

A portion ($130) of the $428 goes towards investing in future specialists through subsidizing exam costs. The majority of exam expenses are covered by the exam and assessment fees that candidates pay.

Supporting members in their learning and practice improvement

$372 supports you in your learning and practice improvement.

This includes our Maintenance of Certificate (MOC) program, which helps you stay up to date with your practice, from residency through to retirement.

Your dues support the provision and maintenance of My MOC, the Royal College platform to enter and track your learning activities.

Beyond MOC, we support members through:

Addressing physician wellbeing,
Learning and practice improvement,
Our newly launched My Learning platform featuring a consolidation of Royal College instructor-led and self-study courses, as well as curated content from trusted learning partners, and
The Royal College Services Centre, offering one-stop assistance for all inquiries.

Community Building and Recognition

$174 enhances the contributor experience and connecting our community. This ensures that your voice shapes our programs across the College.

Community building happens in many ways, including through:

Supporting thousands of contributors coming together to do the critical work of the Royal College, including specialty committees, exam boards, accreditation committees, and many others
National Advisory Committees,
Communities of practice, and
Networking opportunities

Advocacy for members and systems improvement

$81 of your membership dues fund advocacy efforts for systems improvement.

This includes work to address:

The health human resource crisis,
Improving physician well-being,
Planetary health,
Anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI),
Indigenous health, and more

Research

$25 of your dues enables us to continue to fund research grants and research work.

Our series of grants support medical education research and professional development, to help broaden knowledge and foster scientific dialogue.

A look at what your dues don’t cover

The work of Royal College Canada International is not supported by your dues. RCCI is an entirely separate entity with its own governance structure.

In fact, RCCI allocates one-third of its net proceeds back to the Royal College, and another third of its net proceeds towards improving health profession education and local capacity in low- and middle-income countries through International, Development, Aid and Collaboration projects.

In addition, the Royal College Foundation and Canadian Aid and Action Fund (CAAF) are funded 100% by donations and not by membership dues.

Note: Financial figures included are reflective of actuals from 2023/2024