Upcoming Courses
Limited spaces available
Please see our upcoming CPD courses and meetings, taking place in October and November. Places are limited for all our courses, so early registration is advised to avoid disappointment.
We write to advise you that we have places available for the following CPD courses and meetings that will take place in the following weeks. Places are limited for all our courses, so early registration is advised to avoid disappointment.
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Course Title
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Course Overview
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CPD Points
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Registration
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8 October 2025
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Active Bystander Intervention Training
2 places left
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Interactive Learning
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This training session aims to empower the RCSI community to challenge poor behaviors which have become normalised and bring change through the reinforcement of messages defining the boundaries of unacceptable behavior.
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1
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Register here
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9 October 2025
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Procedural Sedation and Analgesia – Cork
2 places left
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Classroom
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This course will help you to identify the most appropriate, safe and effective strategy to ensure the management of hypotensive and tachycardic patients reporting to emergency departments and what to do if the event an anaesthetist is not available. The course is delivered as a series of interactive discussion and didactic lectures, followed by a series of short practical workshops
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8
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Register here
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14 October 2025
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Basic Endoscopy Skills
5 places left
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Classroom
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This endoscopy workshop will introduce endoscopic techniques, sedation, bowel preparation and diagnostic recognition of pathology. The practical session will use both virtual reality endoscopic simulators and bench task trainers to practice doing gastroscopy and colonoscopy, on modules with different pathologies.
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7.5
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Register here
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15 October 2025
22 October 2025
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Accredited Certificate in Emergency Radiology
7 places left
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Interactive Learning
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This online two-day course is designed for healthcare professionals in the ED, providing comprehensive training in radiological interpretation for daily ED operations. The course covers a wide range of topics, from common musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries to paediatric-specific radiology, chest and abdominal films, facial injuries, and more.
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12
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Registerhere
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21 October 2025
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Basic Laparoscopy Skills
3 places left
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Classroom
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This is a hands-on course where you will get expert formative feedback while practicing laparoscope handling, object positioning and tissue manipulation. You will then progress to performing a cholecystectomy on a simulated animal model.
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7.5
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Registerhere
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23 October 2025
18 November 2025
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Trauma 360 - Simulation for survival certificate
New
5 places left
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Classroom
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This bespoke two-day certificate is designed to equip healthcare practitioners with a structured and standardised approach to the reception and management of major trauma. Combining concise theoretical teaching with dynamic, hands-on practical workshops, the course is delivered by an experienced faculty of trauma and emergency medicine experts.
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15
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Registerhere
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29 October 2025
10 November 2025
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Accredited Certificate in Simulation-based Training in Human Factors in Patient Safety
7 places left
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Classroom
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This three-day certificate introduces human factors in healthcare. Each day has a separate overall theme, and begins with an overall introductory lecture, followed by a series of practical and interactive workshops developing on the key theme.
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18
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Register here
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29 October 2025
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Suturing Skills and Wound Closure
3 places left
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Classroom
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This course will help you master your knot-tying and suturing skills from first principles. Experienced consultant surgeons will give you formative feedback on your instrument handling, tissue manipulation, and wound closure.
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7.5
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Register here
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30 October 2025
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Financial Wellbeing, Spending, Borrowing and Your Credit Profile
3 places left
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Interactive Learning
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This session introduces financial wellbeing & why it is so important. It will also go through how to create a spending plan using the 50/30/20 budgeting rule, how to save successfully and borrow using the right resources. Also discussed will be the various types of credit and your credit profile.
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1
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5 November 2025
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Active Bystander Intervention Training
3 places left
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Interactive Learning
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This training session aims to empower the RCSI community to challenge poor behaviors which have become normalised and bring change through the reinforcement of messages defining the boundaries of unacceptable behavior.
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1
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Register here
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6 November 2025
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Basic Skills in Urology
5 places left
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Classroom
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This multi-faceted course will address scrotal diseases as well as cystic and ureteric conditions. Both animal models, virtual reality simulators and bench models will allow the participant to repair a hydrocele, do a circumcision, remove stones from the ureter, insert J stents and perform a simulated TURP.
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7.5
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Register here
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7 November 2025 &
21 November 2025
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Clinical Audit
7 places left
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Interactive Learning
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The objectives of the clinical audit skills days is to provide you with the knowledge and skills to carry out a clinical audit. The training days comprise of slide presentations, discussions and use of examples and workshops.
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6
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Register here
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14 November
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Intermediate General Surgery
5 places left
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Classroom
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This programme covers instruction in technical skills to perform fashioning a stoma (ileostomy/colostomy), performing a bowel anastomosis and performing an open inguinal hernia management. This practical course will use both synthetic and animal simulation to aid learning and practicing skills.
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7.5
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Register here
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17 November 2025
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CLEAR Communication: A Webinar on Clear and Concise Patient Communication
3 places left
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Interactive Learning
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Doctors working outside their country of training face unique challenges. This one-hour session explores how to reduce medicolegal risk through better communication, with a focus on the realities of practising in a new healthcare culture.
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1
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20 November 2025
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How to Conduct Clinical Research
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Classroom
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This course focuses on research methodology. It helps to develop the skills required to plan, conduct and disseminate individual research projects.
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6
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Register here
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24 November 2025
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Casting Workshop
8 places left
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Classroom
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This course will concentrate on knowledge in relation to correct cast application and removal for the upper and lower limb, caring for the limb in a cast and preventing associated complications. Correct selection of casts for specific fractures and ligament injuries will be demonstrated and performed.
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7.5
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Register here
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26 November 2025
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Emergency Toxicology
10 places left
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Classroom
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This course involves a combination of short lectures, simulation scenarios and interactive workshops to review the basics of toxicological emergencies and their challenging presentations in acute care.
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7.5
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Register here
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26 November 2025
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Active Bystander Intervention Training
4 places left
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Interactive Learning
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This training session aims to empower the RCSI community to challenge poor behaviors which have become normalised and bring change through the reinforcement of messages defining the boundaries of unacceptable behavior.
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1
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Register here
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29 November 2025
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Paediatric Life Support
11 places left
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Classroom
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This course will aid you in developing your curriculum vitae so that your previous experience and attributes will stand out. The course also explores the optimum ways you can win over the interview panel at that all-important interview.
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10
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Register here
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If a course is FULL – it is recommended to apply for the waiting list. Often doctors withdraw from courses closer to the date.
You will be required to pay an enrolment fee for courses. However, this fee can be reimbursed via HSE’s Training Support Scheme. Further details can be found here.
Please do not hesitate to contact us in the meantime at cpdss@rcsi.ie
Course Spotlight: Basic Endoscopy
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
The first part of this endoscopy course will discuss themes such as the use of equipment, sedation, bowel preparation and decision-making during in endoscopy.
Date: 14 October 2025
Duration: 7 hours
CPD Credits: 7.5
Location: RCSI, Dublin
Summary
The first part of this endoscopy course will discuss themes such as the use of equipment, sedation, bowel preparation and decision-making during in endoscopy.
The practical workshop will use both virtual reality endoscopic simulators and bench task trainers to learn and practice doing gastroscopy and colonoscopy, on modules with different pathologies. In some of the modules tasks such as polypectomy and biopsy will be performed.
This CPD course is suitable for the Specialist Division of the Register (SDR) application.
Suitable for: SHOs and early registrars in general surgery, upper GI and colorectal surgery.
Learning outcomes
- An increased knowledge of endoscopic handling and orientation
- Acquired an increased knowledge in the types and application of sedation
- An increased understanding of the methods of bowel preparation
- Increased confidence in performing a gastroscopy
- Increased confidence in performing a colonoscopy
- Improved technical skills in preventing complications as a result of looping.
To register, please click here.
Self-paced online courses
Study at your own time
We are consistently striving to expand our selection of self-paced online courses, allowing you to complete them conveniently at your own preferred schedule.
We are consistently striving to expand our selection of self-paced online courses, allowing you to complete them conveniently at your own preferred schedule. Below is a list of the courses we offer:
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NEW - Good Clinical Practice
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This course is relevant to principal investigators, medical team members, research nurses/midwives and other healthcare professionals, monitors and research site personnel.Content is based on ICH E6 (R3) 2025 and includes the key requirements of the Clinical Trial Regulations (536/2014) and national legislation.
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Professionalism in Clinical Practice
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RCSI has developed an online course
“Professionalism in Clinical Practice” which is aimed at medical doctors in all specialties. The course is based on the Medical Council’s “Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners” and is presented in an interesting and engaging format
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Skin Tone in Clinical Assessment and Research
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This one-hour CPD programme explores the importance of skin tone diversity in healthcare, covering skin biology, classification systems, and disparities in diagnosis, treatment, and research. It addresses the lack of diverse representation in medical education, simulation models, and clinical studies, the challenges of diagnosing across different skin tones, and the role of emerging technologies and AI in reducing bias
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Clinical Trials - Running a Cancer Clinical Trial
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This CPD course builds on Clinical Trials – From development to opening to provide further practical knowledge for those involved in research. The course will help you to ensure your trials are conducted effectively, including how to identify and address potential risks.
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Quality healthcare requires clear and effective communication between healthcare professionals, teams, and patients. In this course, we will focus on one particular area of healthcare communication: clinical handovers. This online course aims to support clinicians to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively prepare and participate in clinical handover.
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Communication Skills for Video and Telephone Consultation
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Video and telephone consultations in healthcare are not new, but the COVID-19 crisis forced many clinicians to rapidly take up these kinds of consultations as a feasible alternative to face-to-face consultations. This is often a type of consultation that staff has not encountered before. Applying the Calgary-Cambridge guide to video and telephone calls provides a structured and safe approach to this virtual format.
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The course is presented as a series of recorded one-hour modules. Each module, involving a separate specialty theme, will involve case-based discussions with a variety of guest speakers. Slides covering the content are provided, and a short series of MCQs based on the content covered is completed to complete the module.
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ECG Interpretation in the Emergency Department
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This online course uses a case discussion format to revise the basics of ECG Interpretation for Emergency Medicine physicians. This online platform allows candidates to access the recorded content on demand, with the facility to repeat more challenging modules as desired. Candidates are required to complete a quiz at the beginning and end of the course.
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Medical Science for Surgery and Emergency Medicine
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RCSI, in collaboration with the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine (https://acslm.ie/), has developed a CPD/CME programme designed to support the ongoing development of competence in this vital area of clinical practice. The programme offers a series of short online courses covering 25 key topics in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The first seven courses in the series focus on Cancer Diagnostics, Surgical Microbiology, Blood Transfusion, Coagulation, Surgical Immunology, Heart Failure Assessment in the Emergency Department, and Near Patient Testing (NPT), spanning both basic and applied pathology.
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Virtual Lean Healthcare Yellow Belt
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As part of the programme participants learn excellent techniques for improving processes and implementing change in your hospital or department, but they also develop abilities that are highly portable across the organisation and internationally.
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Essential Skills in Health Professions Education
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The course includes mini-modules on large group teaching, small group teaching, bedside teaching, simulation-based learning, and Universal Design for Learning. Each mini module includes video content, curated reading lists and interactive activities.
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Clinical Trials – From development to opening
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Cancer clinical trials are pivotal research studies that aim to advance our understanding of cancer and develop new treatment options. They involve rigorous testing of novel therapies, drugs, or interventions to assess their safety and efficacy in real-world patient scenarios.
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Introduction to Green Surgery
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This short course explores the contribution of surgery to climate change and examines interventions that can lead to reduced greenhouse gases and reduce the climate impact of surgery.
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Foundations in Robotic Surgery
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The course covers material which we believe is fundamental to understanding the current state of surgical robotics in the market and the skills necessary to safe and effectively utilise this technology in your everyday surgical practice.This course is design for any healthcare professional wanting to develop their knowledge and understanding of surgical robotics, including surgeons, trainees, medical students, nurses, and technicians.
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Basics of Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Emergency Department
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This one-hour online course is designed to equip you with essential knowledge for providing safe and effective sedation in the Emergency Department. This comprehensive module will guide you through the fundamentals of procedural sedation, preparing you to handle challenging situations with confidence and expertise.
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For further queries please do not hesitate to contact us at cpdss@rcsi.ie
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