The organisation of GP training in this country needs an urgent reappraisal if we are to solve the problems facing general practice, according to ICGP Chief Executive Kieran Ryan. Gary Culliton reports.
Clock ticking on training places
November 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Some of those on the GP training schemes have been struggling for the past 15 months to secure further employment in the health service, Irish Medical Times has learned.
Only two take up the new Safetalk suicide training
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Aoife Connors. Oireachtas members were invited to train in suicide first aid for the first time last week (September 23), in response to the 486 deaths by suicide registered across the country in 2010.
Endoscopy training programme gets underway
July 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. A standardised joint endoscopy training programme for SpRs has begun, aimed at developing the technical skills of new trainees through the use of simulators.
Charting a way through choppy waters
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a two-part exclusive interview, Dara Gantly speaks with new RCSI President Prof Eilis McGovern about steering the College through the difficult times ahead The times they are a-changin’. With a €1 billion cut in health service funding this year and more to follow in the upcoming budget, you could be excused for using the [...]
Doctors on the dole
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dara Gantly examines the likelihood of seeing Irish medical graduates joining our ever-increasing dole queues As you are acutely aware, unemployment has reached its highest level since 1995, with the number of people working falling by more than 100,000 in the last 12 months alone. At 13.8 per cent, the likelihood of the dole queue topping [...]
Dole queue may loom for doctors
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Dara Gantly dara.gantly@imt.ie The President of the RCSI has warned that young doctors could face the real prospect of unemployment within the decade if the number of training and permanent posts are not increased to match the increase in graduate numbers. In her first major interview since taking over as President, Prof Eilis McGovern [...]
Simulation training: a new adventure
April 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dr Crina Burlacu, College of Anaesthetists in Ireland, explains the setting up of the national programme of training through simulation and details the associated benefits The College of Anaesthetists in Ireland (COAI) has announced the launching of the College of Anaesthetists’ Simulation Training (CAST) Programme, which involves the introduction of full-scale realistic simulation in the [...]
EU attempts to tackle workforce issues in health
August 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dara Gantly examines the Irish submissions made to the EU Green paper on the European Workforce for Health Irish health organisations want the European Commission to ensure that medical qualifications are standardised across the EU, that countries become self-sufficient in the supply of their labour force, and that the prohibition on language testing of EU [...]
Irish system faces shortfalls
July 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dara Gantly on a new report, which found that Ireland’s medical training system will lead to shortfalls in GPs and public health doctors by 2020. A new report analysing the labour market for 12 healthcare professions has predicted that shortfalls in the number of GPs, specialists in public health medicine, nurses and midwives will occur [...]
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