Dr. Caroline Burke (MB BCH BAO MRCPI MICGP DOWH MPH FICGP ) is a lecturer in General Practice in UCC and is working as a GP in Cork city. She holds postgraduate certificates in palliative care, dermatology, health professions education and healthcare management practice. She is module co-ordinator for HC2002 which focuses on the causes and consequences of health inequalities on health outcomes. She completed specialist GP training with the North Dublin city and Cork GP training schemes, obtaining membership to the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) in 2023. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians since 2016.

Her interests include public health, dermatology and cancer survivorship.

Caroline recently completed a post-CSCT fellowship in cancer survivorship under the supervision of Professor Emma Wallace. During this time, she completed 2 medication bulletins with the National Medicines Information Committee (NMIC) on medications prescribed for patients with breast and prostate cancer. She is also author of the Irish College of GPs 2025 GP update on cancer survivorship. Caroline obtained a master’s degree in public health in UCC in 2023. Her thesis focused on the experiences of GPs in using a dermatology application to assist with the management of dermatological conditions. This was published in BJGP OPEN. She has experience in providing research supervision to undergraduate medical students.

Caroline has been involved in teaching and assessment across many settings including the ICGP Dermatology postgraduate certificate course, ICGP library-based research skills course for GP registrars, UCC module CP3105/GM2105, the nurse prescribing certificate at UCC, and OSCEs for medical students. She was one of the course facilitators for the European certificate in palliative care and has been involved in clinical teaching rotas including the bedside teaching rota for medical students while she was working as a registrar in palliative care at Milford hospice.

Caroline has a post graduate certificate in healthcare management practice with Smurfitt business school and is on the Academic GP Ireland (AGPI) executive committee, currently in the role of early career researcher rep.