Mr Barry McGuire appointed as Professor of Surgical Education and Academic Development
RCSI is delighted to announce the appointment of Barry McGuire as Professor of Surgical Education and Academic Development. Barry is a graduate of RCSI and the specialist urology training scheme in Ireland.
He completed a fellowship in Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago in the area of robotics, laparoscopic and percutaneous surgery. He was appointed as a consultant urologist in Beaumont Hospital in 2015 and subsequently to St Vincent’s University Hospital in 2017 where he has worked to date.
An event focusing on experienced surgeons is scheduled for Friday 26 January. This half day session, beginning at 1pm, will look at how Surgical Careers can evolve overtime, we will hear from financial planning experts who will address issues of financial planning for the future. We will also hear from Prof Roseanne Kenny on how to look after your health and well-being now and in the future.
The RCSI Court of Examiners are currently looking to recruit new basic, clinical and lay examiners to join our surgical examining committee and help deliver our MRCS Part B OSCE diets in Ireland and overseas in Malaysia, Bahrain, the UAE and our newly launched centre in Egypt.
RCSI Surgery held a Core Surgical Training (CST) online information session ahead of applications for the CST programme opening, with over 100 attendees joining the session. Applications for CST 2024 intake then opened on 19 October and closed on 23 November 2023.
Applications are now open for the Advanced Emergency Abdominal Surgery course on Saturday, 27 January 2024 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General at the Department of Health, recently visited St. Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) to witness first-hand the transformative impact of Modernised Care Pathways on patient care and waiting lists.
Catch up on our previous episodes of Beyond the Theatre podcast, a podcast focusing on surgical and medical topics relating to surgeons in practice and training.
RCSI is pleased to announce that episode 4 of our Safe & Sound podcast with Dr Chris Turner, Emergency Medicine Consultant at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire is now available to listen to on Spotify and Apple podcasts.
The first surgical trial supported by the RCSI National Surgical Research Support Centre (NSRSC) has been launched. The PROPEL-2 trial will investigate if a new type of wound dressing called Negative Pressure Wound Therapy is better than current standard wound dressings at reducing surgical wound infections, improving scar appearance and quality of life for patients having surgery on their abdomen.
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