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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dear Editor, Re: ‘Medical Training – Anatomy is best learned on cadavers!’ (IMT, March 27, www.imt.ie/opinion/2009/03/anatomy_is_best_learned_on_cad.html. I wish to convey my concerns regarding the aforementioned article, which contains many aspects I believe to be unfounded and misleading. Firstly, the notions of ‘fast track’ graduate entry medical (GEM) students going on to become ‘more mature doctors’ [...]
Dr Joyce Galbraith writes that while there are mixed views on fast-track courses into medicine, there is no substitute for a good grounding in anatomy. The increasing use of the so-called ‘fast-track’ method of medical training has caused some critics to regard this new system as a dumbing-down of academic standards — which, in some [...]
Dr Sinéad Donohue elaborates on the postgraduate training needs assessment, currently being carried out, on the need for clinical cultural competency training. Culture emerges from a blend of many different factors and it is therefore not surprising that we often find ourselves trying to communicate across cultural differences. An individual’s cultural identity is particularly relevant [...]
Dear Editor, We, the trainers of Ireland’s future GPs, deplore the recent income cuts affecting our trainees, which target vital educational aspects of their training. We acknowledge that everyone needs to make a contribution in these difficult times. These contributions should, however, be proportionate for all workers in the health service. GP registrar deductions fly [...]
A new study showing that fall-prevention training can help people to maintain their balance could have major benefits for patients who have osteoporosis. Fall-prevention training using unstable surfaces in a laboratory could help elderly people to avoid slips and trips that cause painful injuries. Research published in the Journal of Neurophysiology showed that training people [...]
Dr Mark Hannon says that medical training schemes will have to change if patients in Ireland are ever to get the healthcare service that they expect and that they deserve. As so often happens, the mainstream press (in this case, The Irish Times) has recently highlighted a healthcare issue that has been apparent to healthcare [...]
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