Biography

Having qualified from UCC  in 1995, Internship and the Basic Surgical Training Scheme at CUH followed, resulting in an Associate Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (AFRCSI) in 1998. Research interests at this time were in wound sepsis and trauma.

From 1998-2001, Clinical training was in the major Dublin Hospitals. This was diverse, to gain experience for a career in Emergency Medicine, resulting in Diploma in Obstetrics and Women’s Health(DOWH) and certification as Acute Paediatric Life Support (APLS)Provider. Registrar in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, 2001 and Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, Australia 2002.

Since 2002, clinical experience was as Emergency Registrar at SIVUH with a major interest in Resuscitation Training, as ACLS Instructor and Medical Director, and now as BLS instructor also.

Having joined the School of Medicine as Lecturer in Medical Education for MUH June 2007, as well as co-ordinating activities and teaching at that site, activities at the Brookfield site include First Aid training, co-ordinating  Irish Heart Foundation courses within the ASSET centre, having initiated and assisted in the successful application to be an IHF Affiliated Training site. It will now be possible to certify UCC medical students as CPR and AED providers prior to qualifying as doctors.

Current research interests include simulation training, scenario-based learning, creating an interdisciplinary student-centered environment for learning, using adult learning principles for undergraduates, how to improve psychomotor performance in a simulated environment and how to keep anatomy used by all in the clinical years.