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Medical Council CEO Caroline Spillane tells Dara Gantly about how the Council is managing to expand its role and functions against a backdrop of increased financial pressures, in the first of a two-part interview with IMT.

Prof Kieran Murphy, Medical Council President, reflects on the successful first year of the new Professional Competence Schemes.

By Dara Gantly.

Dear Editor, Plato’s famous allegory of the cave was written over 2,000 years ago, yet its relevance in the context of Irish medicine is at times dizzying.

Dear Editor, Having recently become aware of the latest Irish Medical Council (IMC) consultation on the assessment of doctors, I had a look at the consultation and was flabbergasted.

Dear Editor, I was fascinated to see that the Irish Medical Council believes Canada has an established professional competence scheme that is acceptable for Medical Council purposes (‘Special deal for overseas PC’, Irish Medical Times, May 13, 2011, http://bit.

By Aoife Connors.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.