At the recent School of Medicine Prize-Giving Ceremony on Friday 22 November, 2019 the Dean of the School, Professor O’Leary highlighted the many successes of MedSoc, Surgeon Noonan, Friends of MSF and Emergency Care Society in the 2018/2019 academic year.

The annual School of Medicine Prize-Giving Ceremony took place on Friday 22 November, 2019 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.The Dean of the School, Professor Paula O’Leary welcomed the large number of prize-winners, their families and friends to the Ceremony.   The Dean also had a warm welcome for the family and friends of deceased family members and past graduates of the University to the Ceremony. 

The first of the INSPIRE lectures was delivered on October 2^nd by Dr. Sharon McKenna (pictured), Principal Investigator at the Cork Cancer Research Centre.

Congratulations to Mr Mario Rotundo and Mr Darek Sokol-Randell (Graduate Entry Medical students) who were awarded the Dr Moira O'Brien medal for the top oral presentation at the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine Annual Scientific Conference

The School of Medicine was delighted to host the 6th Atlantic Corridor Medical Student Research Conference on Thursday 7th of November in Brookfield Health Science Complex. This intervarsity undergraduate research showcase provided an opportunity to enjoy presentations on a diverse range of clinical and translational medical research projects completed across two of the ‘Atlantic Corridor’ medical schools – UCC and NUIG. The programme included a stimulating mixture of oral and poster presentations, in addition to a plenary lecture by Dr Liam Fanning, Director, Virology Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, Cork University Hospital.

The inaugural Dr. Paule Cotter Medal will be awarded to Professor Mary Leader, Consultant Histopathologist for her outstanding contribution to Pathological Practise both in Ireland and internationally.

Transition Year secondary school students from across Ireland attended University College Cork’s School of Medicine on Feb 1st 2019 to attend ‘Prep-for Med.’ This hugely popular programme allows young people to experience both the life and the facilities available to medical students’ in UCC’s School of Medicine.

The Dean of the School, Professor Paula O’Leary welcomed the large number of prize-winners, their families and friends to the Ceremony.   The Dean pointed out that the Brookfield Complex has now been open 13 years and the facilities in the building are central to the Medical School structure. 

Graduate Entry Medicine Open Day 2018 takes place on Saturday, November 17, 2018.

The Sheppard Memorial Prize is awarded annually by the Republic of Ireland Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners.  Closing date for entries is 19 October 2018.

Mary Ward Essay Prize in Traffic Medicine

Congratulations to Dr Dennis Hopkinson a UCC GEM 2015 graduate who has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholarship to research and teach at the University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Health Sciences. A brilliant achievement!

Success for UCC Emergency Society at the SimWars 2018

Success for Medical Student Societies at 2018 UCC Society Awards

The Medical Education Unit are delighted to announce that the INMED Annual Scientific Meeting will be held in Brookfield Health Science Complex on February 7th to 9th 2018.

The annual Quercus College Scholarship ceremony, held in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork took place on Thursday 7th December 2017.

The annual New Horizons Research Conference took place in the Western Gateway Building, UCC on Thursday, 7^th of December 2017.

The annual School of Medicine Prize-Giving Ceremony took place on Friday 24 November, 2017 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.

The Dean, Professor Stephen Cusack, and Faculty and all the staff of the School of Medicine congratulate the large number of UCC Medical students receiving awards at the NUI Dr. Henry Hutchinson Stewart Medical Scholarships Award Ceremony in Dublin on 14th of November 2017. 

The School of Medicine was delighted to host the 4^th Atlantic Corridor Medical Student Research Conference on Thursday 2^nd of November in Brookfield Health Science Complex.

The INMED Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at the Brookfield Health Science Complex from February 7th to 9th 2018.

Are you interested in pursuing a career in Medicine?  Do you hold, or expect to hold by July 2018, an Upper Second Class Honours (2H:1) in your first Level 8 Honours Degree?

If so, find out more at the UCC Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) programme Open Day which takes place on Saturday, November 18, 2017 from 10.00-13.00 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex and Western Gateway Building.

The School of Medicine is delighted to highlight the contribution of Dr Pat Henn, Dr Colm O Tuathaigh and Dr Simon Smith to RTE's Brainstorm series. 

The Dean and Faculty of the School of Medicine acknowledging the achievements of Dr. Killian McCarthy in the 2016 Final Year Examinations. 

UCC Medicine Graduate Wins Hippocrates Poetry Prize

Graduate of the Year 2016: Seán Whelan Intercalated Neuroscience graduate

Success for Medical Student Societies at UCC Society Awards

Prof Mary Horgan, Dean, School of Medicine visits Thailand to discuss collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

The British & Irish Lions announced on Wednesday, January 18, three major appointments for the 2017 tour to New Zealand, Head Analyst Rhodri Bown, Head of Medical Eanna Falvey and Head of Strength & Conditioning Paul Stridgeon will support head coach Warren Gatland and his coaching team on the 10-match tour.

The Conferring Ceremony for the Diploma in Military Medical Care took place in UCC on Friday 6^th January, 2017.  

Professor Mary Horgan, Dean, School of Medicine has been elected as President Designate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.  The appointment is the first appointment of a woman President to that position in the RCPI in its 360 year history.   Professor Mary Horgan will succeed Professor Frank Murray as President in October 2017.

The annual New Horizons Research Conference took place in the Western Gateway Building, UCC on Thursday, 8^th of December 2016.

The conference showcased the diverse range of translational research from Postgraduate Research, Post-Doctoral Research and Clinical Research.

The day was divided into 3 sessions. Each session encompassed a stimulating mixture of oral presentations and lectures by prominent clinician scientists and academic staff. There was also a moderated poster session with 94 posters.

School of Medicine, Prize-Giving Ceremony 2016

The annual School of Medicine Prize-Giving Ceremony took place on Friday 25 November, 2016 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.

The Dean, Professor Mary Horgan, and Faculty and all the staff  of the School of Medicine congratulate the large number of UCC Medical students receiving awards at the NUI Dr. Henry Hutchinson Stewart Medical Scholarships Award Ceremony in Dublin on 9 November, 2016.  These awards are competed for annually by students and graduates of NUI constituent universities (UCC, UCD, NUI Galway and Maynooth University) and other NUI member institutions including RCSI and NCAD. The awards honour and support scholars of distinction at every stage of their academic studies. These achievements were also acknowledged by the Dean at the recent School of Medicine Prizegiving Ceremony.

ICAT seeks to appoint the first cohort of 8 well qualified and ambitious medical graduates who aspire to become the next generation of clinical academic leaders.

UCC’s Open Day takes place on Saturday 8^th October, 2016

There will be three talks scheduled for Medicine at the following times:

Morning:      10.20 & 11.20

Afternoon:    12.20

A Scientific Conference organised by the School of Medicine Research Committee UCC is taking place on Thursday 8th December 2016.

Free Registration will take place from 8am onwards on the day in the main foyer of the Western Gateway Building UCC.

The Conference will highlight the diverse range of translational research in UCC and will include plenary sessions with short oral and poster presentations.

CPD points are pending. Those looking to claim CPD points will need to sign in and out on the day and complete a feedback questionnaire.

The School of Medicine at UCC has launched a new module for its undergraduate medical students designed to expose them to the business skills required to develop cost-effective practices.

The ‘Business Skills in Medicine’ module reaches its peak at the ‘The Big Pitch’, where student groups are invited to present their final pitch to a ‘Dragons’ Den-style’ panel of experts, which this year includes representatives from UCC’s School of Economics, IGNITE UCC’s Graduate Business Innovation Programme, Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and Bank of Ireland.

The Health Research Board have announced this year’s recipients of the HRB Summer Student Scholarships.  Nine UCC medical students were awarded Summer scholarships.

Last Friday, the 29^th January 2016, 100 school children from across Ireland descended to University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Medicine to attend the fifth annual ‘Prep-For Med’. This hugely, and increasingly popular programme, allows transition year pupils from across Ireland to experience both the life and the facilities available to Medical students’ in the School of Medicine, based in UCC’s College of Medicine and Health.

The annual New Horizons Research Conference took place in the Western Gateway Building, UCC on Thursday 10^th December 2015.

The conference showcased the diverse range of translational research from Postgraduate Research, Post-Doctoral Research and Clinical Research.

School of Medicine, Prize-Giving Ceremony 2015

The annual School of Medicine Prize-Giving Ceremony took place on Friday 20 November, 2015 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.

Students in the final year of their medical studies are invited to take part in the 2015 Jack Flanagan Medal Competition in Geriatric Medicine. This year's competition will be held in UCC on Wednesday 21^st October.

This competition is named after Dr Jack Flanagan, who was the first doctor in Ireland to specialise in modern day geriatric medicine. The winners are awarded an academic medal in memory of Dr Flanagan's contribution to the specialty.

Last year’s winners from UCC’S School of Medicine comprised of Ms. Cathie O’Mahoney, Ms. Róisín Ryan, Mr. Ronan Bluett and Mr. Ciaran Mullins who were coached by Dr. Paul Gallagher (Consultant Geriatrician & Senior Lecturer in Medicine) and Dr. Amanda Lavan (Specialist Registrar in Geriatric Medicine and PhD Research Fellow, School of Medicine, UCC).

Monday 6 July 2015: Next week marks the beginning of the medical careers of many newly qualified doctors. Today the School of Medicine hosted the Intern South Network Induction Day. Over 130 new doctors attended, with graduates from UCC, other Irish Medical Schools and overseas in attendance.

Friday, May 29^th has seen 171 students from across the four corners of the globe end their undergraduate education in University College Cork as they are awarded Honours Degrees in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics.

Students from UCC’s Medical Society (Med Soc) have today launched their annual Teddy Bear Hospital, which aims to limit children’s apprehension surrounding visiting the doctor, a term known as “white-coat anxiety.”

An inaugural New Horizons Research Conference took place in the Western Gateway Building, UCC on Thursday 11^th December 2014.

We hope you like our new-look UCC School of Medicine website! Please let us know about events or news items that you think may be of interest.

Each year, UCC medical students perform extremely well in the Henry Hutchinson Stewart NUI Scholarship Awards. This year was no exception, with UCC taking 18 First, Second or Third places, including First in Surgery, Medicine, Paediatrics, Pharmacology and Physiology. Last year, UCC students also achieved First places in all of these disciplines.

It is one of two new projects that will benefit from a €300,000 investment to address policy needs in medical education research and foster research capacity in this sector in Ireland.

The "New Horizons" UCC School of Medicine Research Conference will be held on 11th December 2014 in Western Gateway Building and will feature cutting-edge translational medical research from across clinical and research departments at UCC.

The annual School of Medicine Prize-Giving Ceremony took place on Friday 21 November, 2014 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.

NebulAid is the winner of the 2014 UCC Biomedical Design Innovation Award and the John Francis Burke Perpetual Trophy. The team, which is an interdisciplinary mix of UCC medical and engineering students, has developed an innovative solution to deliver medication more efficiently to the airways.

A team of final year medical students from University College Cork has won the 2014 Jack Flanagan intervarsity competition in Geriatric Medicine.

An inaugural Atlantic Corridor Medical Student Research Conference took place in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex UCC on Monday 10^th November 2014. 

The symposium on October 21^st is organised to mark the quincentenary of the birth of the great anatomist and medical educator Andreas Vesalius.

Childhood overweight and obesity rates have plateaued in primary school aged children in Ireland, reveals research published today in the open access journal BMC Public Health.

CUMH in association with Bayer Healthcare are holding a Study Day for General Practitioners in Cork, Rochestown Park Hotel, on Saturday 18th October 2014.

Why on the rollercoaster of life are some people more resilient to the negative effects of stress than others?  Now University College Cork neuroscientists show that certain receptors in the brain play an important role in determining how we respond to different types of stress. 

Monday 29 September 2014 - Graduate Entry Medicine Students from UCC at Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College of Medicine and Health, in support of Blue September Cancer Awareness Month.

Thursday 18 September 2014 - An Online Masters in Public Health was officially launched today at Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College of Medicine and Health, UCC.

The INMED Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at the Brookfield Health Science Complex from February 7th to 9th 2018.

Starting in the Academic Year 2019/20, CANVAS will replace BLACKBOARD as UCC's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). 

The New Horizons Research Conference 2018 is scheduled for Thursday 6th of December 2018 in Western Gateway Building.