Tag Archives: Education

By Aoife Connors.

Academic detailing — a method involving face-to-face education of clinicians by investigators trained to present trial findings and guidelines — may be associated with a small change in prescribing patterns for patients with high blood pressure (BP), according to a new report.

Researchers from the Tyndall National Institute in UCC have helped to develop the first scientific prosthetic hand that looks and feels like a real limb.

Galway University Hospitals (GUH) is hosting Ireland’s second International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) bone densitometry course this weekend.

The Minister for Education has requested the Higher Education Authority (HEA) and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI) to carry out an external review of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in relation to the commencement of its degree-awarding powers.

A new RCSI postgraduate programme aims to address the professional development needs of educators in all healthcare disciplines Increased public expectations relating to healthcare are placing ever-increasing demands on our healthcare professionals around the globe.

As part of IMT’s ongoing special report on the HPAT exam, our reporters have brought you more sample questions.

HPAT – Special Report Irish Medical Times has partnered with the Institute of Education to bring you a second week of sample questions from the Institute’s HPAT mock materials {openx:269} The Institute of Education has been running HPAT preparation courses since the test was introduced in Ireland, and it offers a HPAT module as an option for its full-time students.

Dear Editor, As a retired head of a medical school department in the National University of Ireland (NUI), I consider that dismantling the organisation, intended by the Minister for Education, could well lead to low standards and abuse by vested interests.

In the second part of IMT’s HPAT series, Niamh Mullen looks at the controversial suggestion that the test was developed to balance gender in medical schools {openx:269} Before the introduction of the Health Professionals Admissions Test (HPAT), high-achieving young women were securing 60 per cent of places in undergraduate medical degrees.