Members of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians are being urged to sack the college’s incoming president and two of its “reformer” board members at an extraordinary general meeting next month.

The vote on the future of Professor John Wilson, a Melbourne respiratory physician, who is set to become the college’s next president in six weeks time, has once more thrown a light on the internal fighting that has dogged the college for years.

The vote has been triggered under the RACP’s so-called “100 member rule”, where emergency meetings are held if demanded by at least 100 members of the college.

At the meeting, college members are also being asked to vote on the removal of Professor Paul Komesaroff and Dr Jacqueline Small.