We write to advise you that we still have places available for the following CPD courses and meetings that will take place in November. Places are very limited for all our courses, so early registration is advised to avoid disappointment.

If a course is FULL – it is recommended applying for the waiting list. Often doctors withdrawn from courses closer to the date.

If you would like to book and attend more than your FREE 3 full-day courses allowance, you will be required to pay an enrolment fee for the additional 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

Best Wishes,

RCSI CPD Team

This is on-line modular course has adapted from our previous CPDSS Medical Emergencies Day. The course is presented as a series of recorded one-hour modules, with access released on a rolling monthly basis. 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 are completed in order to complete the module. The themes covered within each module will be changed on an annual basis.

Detailed information of the course can be found on our website here

We have now made available the following module:

• Module 1. Endocrine and Metabolic Medicine  – please register  here
• Module 2. Neurology  – please register here

Please note NCHDs enrolled on the CPD Support Scheme with RCSI are eligible to apply for one-year free subscription on the brand-new Affiliate Membership of RCSI. Please click here to claim your one-year free subscription.

For more information, please visit: https://www.rcsi.com/surgery/membership/affiliate-members

We are organizing bi-weekly webinars on a Wednesday evening that keeps medical professionals up to date with COVID-19 in different topics.

The Institute of Leadership (IOL) are running a series of webinars in collaboration with The National Clinical Leadership Centre for Nursing and Midwifery (NCLC) and Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (ONMSD).  

The series will consist of nine pre-recorded webinars that commenced in September 2020 and will continue until February 2021.  The aim of the series is to provide an opportunity for representatives from all nursing disciplines and midwifery services to present and share their clinical leadership experiences, during the pandemic. 

The webinars are pre-recorded and will be released on the website every second week, please click here to view them.

Dear Colleagues,

The Irish Hip Fracture Database (IHFD) will soon allow for the recording of long-term outcomes including mortality and function at 30 days, 120 days and 1 year. We are currently conducting a qualitative study with different health professionals (approximately 30 participants in total) to find out the challenges and strategies for following up patients with hip fracture. Through your clinical role you will likely have followed up patients at the 6 week clinic. You may also have been involved in audit or research collecting these outcomes after hip fracture. Your experiences and opinions are very important to the development of this initiative and the future of the IHFD. I am conducting focus groups and interviews on Zoom during the week of 1st November. It would involve a once-off hour long involvement from you online and neither you nor your hospital will be identified in results. If you would be happy to take part in this anonymous study please contact me on m.walsh@ucd.ie for more information and we can schedule a time that works for you.

I will also be conducting a systematic literature review examining prognostic models after hip fracture beginning around April 2022. I will be looking for assistance and co-authorship with this. It would involve screening 1000-3000 Titles/ Abstract and assisting with detailed critical appraisal of approximately 30 papers. We hope it will result in a good publication. If you are interested in this, you can contact me for more information. Please include some background on your experience with research methods, systematic reviews and/ or statistical modelling.

Kind regards,

Mary

Mary E. Walsh, PhD, BSc Physiotherapy

HRB Postdoctoral Fellow, HipFORGE project
School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
University College Dublin

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8920-7419
CORU Registered Physiotherapist PT 032016

RCSI has developed an online course “Professionalism in 21st Century Medical 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.

There are 12 online modules covering different aspects of Medical Professionalism and each module can attract 5 CPD credits. An online introductory video (5-7 minutes per module) is supported by a Learning Resource Area which contains carefully selected reading materials and videos related to the subject matter of the module.

On completion of the reading and viewing tasks, you can take a MCQ test to earn your CPD points and even print your own certificate!

The course is designed to be accessed on any mobile device, which means that it can be accessed anytime and anywhere. You may study the modules in any order and at your own pace. This online course on Professionalism will be available to all registered medical doctors in Ireland.

Module 1: Relationship with Patients:

Care This module explores the complexities of the doctor-patient relationship including empathy and compassion, power differentials, respect, trust and advocacy. 5 CPD Credits

For more information visit: https://msurgery.ie/course/professionalism-in-21st-century-medical-practice/

Handover Course:  https://msurgery.ie/course/handover-course/

This online course aims to support clinicians to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively prepare and participate in clinical handover. The course demonstrates how good communication skills can achieve continuity and safety of patient care during handover. The application of ISBAR3 is examined in a variety of clinical settings using video analysis of everyday handover situations.

CPD Points

The course is recognized for 3 CPD points.

Video Consultation Course:  https://msurgery.ie/course/video-consultation-course/

Many healthcare staff are now carrying out consultations using video calls. This is often a type of consultation that staff have not encountered prior to COVID-19 and can be an area of anxiety. Building on the previous course on telephone consultations, this course shows you how to apply the core skills of the Calgory-Cambridge Guide to video consultations provides a structured and patient-centered approach.

Future of CPD: still time to have your say!

RCSI Health Professions Education Centre (HPEC) is exploring the views of healthcare professionals regarding the future of Continuous Professional Development beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. HPEC are inviting you to share your views on accessing CPD and future preferences; there’s still time to complete this short, important survey with the deadline now extended to Friday 8th October. This survey is supported by 3M. 

Student Participant Information Leaflet.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JLZ29H7

Professor Mark Shrime, O'Brien Chair in Global Surgery at RCSI, will address the complex issues around surgery, poverty and international development during a special Kapuscinski Development Lecture on Monday 1 November. All are welcome to attend this talk, which starts at 1pm.  

The Kapuscinski Development Lectures give top global thinkers a platform to discuss development in the European Union and beyond. The lectures honour the name of Kapuscinski, a Polish journalist and writer, who died in 2007. Kapuscinski, whose books were translated into many languages, was often named the "Third World Chronicler" or "Voice of the Poor" for his famous reportages and books describing developing countries on all continents.  The Kapuscinski lecture series offers students from European Union member states an opportunity to learn and discuss about development issues such as climate change, human rights, aid effectiveness, Europe-Africa relations and Sustainable Development Goals, among others. These high-level events also contribute to the debate and formulation of the European development policy. Over 30,000 participants have enjoyed more than 100 lectures since they began in 2009.

Professor Shrime joined RCSI as O'Brien Chair of Global Surgery in 2020. A co-author on the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, Professor Shrime leads the university's Institute of Global Surgery in its work to address the provision of surgical care in low- and middle-income countries. Professor Shrime joined RCSI from Harvard Medical School where he was Director of the Center for Global Surgery Evaluation.

Register here bitly.com/KDLMS

The poor availability of surgical services in developing countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, is a long-neglected problem. It garnered international attention with the issuance of the World Health Assembly resolution 68.15 on strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anaesthesia as a component of Universal Health Coverage. 

John Kachima BSc, MBChB, MMed, FCS (ECSA Uro) is a Consultant Urologist and Senior Medical Superintendent at Livingstone Central Hospital, Zambia.  For the last decade, he been part of two EU-funded surgical systems-strengthening research projects in collaboration with RCSI and colleagues from the Netherlands, Malawi, and Tanzania.  He is also Editor in chief of the Medical Journal of Zambia.

In his Grand Rounds presentation, he will give a frontline worker's perspective on the efforts to turn rhetoric of the World Health Assembly into reality on the ground in Zambia.  All are welcome to attend this talk which starts at 2pm. Register here https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wts0HLQRQISCV0TdLfHYTg

Dear EM colleague,

Just a reminder about our annual VTE conference which will be live on zoom next month October 7/8^th which is free to register https://www.vtedublin.org/#2021-registration-now-open and approved for CPD points. While some of the program is more haem/onc orientated there are a couple of interesting EM relevant talks on the Friday including Prevention of VTE in patients with traumatic brain injury and Diagnostic strategies in suspected PE across different healthcare settings; what model to use in what patient.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who are involved in recruiting patients to the TILLIRI study to contribute to answering the important question as to which patients with lower limb immobilisation should be offered thromboprophylaxis.

Many thanks

Tomas Breslin

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Mater Hospital Dublin

We are organising every Wednesday evening webinars that keeps medical professionals up to date with COVID-19 in different topics.

The Institute of Leadership (IOL) are running a series of webinars incollaboration with The National Clinical Leadership Centre for Nursing and Midwifery (NCLC) and Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (ONMSD).  

The series will consist of nine pre-recorded webinars that commenced in September 2020 and will continue until February 2021.  The aim of the series is to provide an opportunity for representatives from all nursing disciplines and midwifery services to present and share their clinical leadership experiences, during the pandemic. 

The webinars are pre-recorded and will be released on the website every second week, please click here to view them.