School of Medicine

TEDxUCC organised by the School of Medicine at UCC took place on the 27th of October and focused on simulation in health care education.

The School of Medicine Pre-Graduation Dinner was held in the Aula Max, UCC on the 14th June 2011 and was well attended by large number of the 2011 Graduating Class.   At the dinner, the Medical School Medal was presented to this year’s recipient - Professor Tim O’Brien, Professor of Medicine at NUIG and Director of REMEDI.

Pictured (left to right) - Mr. Con O’Brien, Professor George Shorten, Professor Tim O’Brien and Professor David Kerins.

UCC’s first ‘Prep-For-Med-School’ took place on Friday13th May and was attended by eighty Transition Year students with their Career Guidance Counsellors from across Cork city and county. The day began with a clinical skills taster programme designed by Dr Rob Gaffney, Director of Clinical Skills at the School of Medicine UCC, and based on the Cardiovascular System. Students learned about blood pressure, how the heart works, how to stop bleeding and bystander CPR.  How do you teach medical students to take blood? Using fake arms and fake blood, of course!

As part of a new Outreach Programme, medical students at UCC recently visited local primary schools to  give presentations on nutrition and health.  This novel nutrition Outreach Programme was developed in association with the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, which has a well-developed and hugely popular schools education program.
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Congratulations to UCC Medical Student Fred English on winning this year's Health Research Board Watts Medal.

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On Friday 10^th December 2010 the School of Medicine annual Prize-Giving Ceremony took place in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex. 
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The School of Medicine Pre-Graduation Dinner was held in the Aula Max on the 15th June, 2010.  At the dinner Mr. Edward Kiely was presented with the UCC Medical School medal.
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Two UCC graduates have been inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the country’s highest scholarly honour.
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 The first class to be conferred with the Postgraduate Diploma in Palliative Care was conferred in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC on December 3rd 2009. The graduates are attached to UCC’s Medical School and St Patrick’s Hospital/Marymount Hospice.

Pioneering Irish surgeon and researcher, Professor Gerald O’Sullivan, Director of the Cork Cancer Research Centre in UCC, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Journal of Medical Science (IJMS) Doctor Awards.
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