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Characterising problematic polypharmacy in older adults attending general practice
Learn how Prof Emma Wallace’s Health Research Board-funded programme is making a difference over 5 years of impactful research.
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Welcome to the Department of General Practice
Welcome to the Department of General Practice
Welcome to the Department of General Practice
Welcome to the Department of General Practice
The Department of General Practice is an academic department in the School of Medicine.
Our aim is to improve health and healthcare by strengthening and developing general practice and primary care.
We are committed to:
- contributing to the national and international primary care research agenda, focusing on managing chronic health conditions in the community
- developing and delivering evidence-based primary care education for undergraduate and postgraduate students
- facilitating general practice placements for medical students
- providing continuing professional development for general practitioners and primary care professionals
- supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate research students
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Latest news/events
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14 Oct 2025
Event to Launch the UCC Clinical Pharmacy and General Practice Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Partnership
The PPI Kick-off Event at UCC marked the official launch of the UCC Clinical Pharmacy and General Practice Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Partnership on Tuesday 14th October 2025 and was attended by a large number of patients and public individuals, researchers, and academics.
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03 Sep 2025
Presentations at the 2025 CoMH Conference
The research programme was well represented at this years College of Medicine and Health Conference in UCC, featuring several insightful presentations. Prof Emma Wallace presented on behalf of Dr Ann Sinead Doherty on her paper titled: "Prevalence of ThinkCascades in community dwelling adults: longitudinal analysis of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)".
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01 Aug 2025
Annals of Family Medicine Podcast
Dr Ann Sinéad Doherty and Prof Emma Wallace were recently asked to speak on the new Annals of Family Medicine podcast. They discussed the importance and impact of their study titled 'Prescribing Cascades Among Older Community-Dwelling Adults: Application of Prescription Sequence Symmetry Analysis to a National Database in Ireland.” The study identified five potential prescribing cascades in Ireland’s national population of older adults, highlighting yet another contributor to potentially inappropriate prescribing.
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10 Jul 2025
Another award for Dr Ann Sinéad Doherty
The Department would like to congratulate the success of our post doctoral researcher, Dr Ann Sinéad Doherty, at the AGPI/ICGP ASM 2025. Ann was awarded the prestigious Prof James McCormick Award for Best Research Presentation at the event for her work on Prescribing cascades among older community-dwelling adults in Ireland. Ann also recently presented the findings of this Health Research Board (HRB) funded study in Cardiff #SAPC2025
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