This course will enable you to perfect and practice your laparoscopic knot tying and intracorporeal suturing skills, using virtual reality, synthetic and animal-based simulators in our wet lab facility. This course will give the attendee the opportunity to have a two-way discussion on the up-to-date laparoscopic operative management in topics su...

This is a gastrointestinal skills course that concentrates on the operative management of open inguinal hernias, bowel anastomosis and bowel diversion surgery. During the course, you will learn procedures using low and high-fidelity models in our wet lab facility with the constructive feedback of experienced consultants in General and colorectal...

This training programme will enable participants to use the NQAIS Clinical system to extract data on each patient discharged from an acute hospital for the past five years. The data includes over 275 possible pieces of information on each patient, e.g. principal and secondary diagnoses, principal and secondary procedures performed, admitting, di...

This course has been developed as a follow-on course to the Excel – An Introduction course, with a specific focus on introducing you to the features of the application that are used to build, manage and analyse lists of data (records). Learning outcomes Understand the fundamental requirements to building a d...

The training session aims to introduce participants to the concepts of positive emotions, optimism, meaning and purpose and growth mindset in a professional and personal environment. This course will introduce the concept of burnout in the medical profession and mechanisms to avoid burnout. The course will also address using a strengths-based ap...

This endoscopy workshop is designed for registrars already performing gastroscopies and colonoscopies independently. The interactive, case-based discussions will deal with themes such as practical polypectomy, tattooing, endoclip placement, endoscopic mucosal resection and visual footage of difficult real cases. This is a hands-on course, where...

his advanced course will explore and discuss the decision-making around the challenges of incisional hernia repair, difficult cholecystectomies and small bowel resections with expert faculty. This is a full porcine course with one pig per four participants and a faculty-to-participant ratio of 1:4. The participant must have experience in operati...

An intensive half day training programme, which examines the current law in relation to consent and capacity in Ireland and reviews recent cases before the superior courts. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 is also covered, with discussions around its implications for practice. A central theme of this training is in-depth discussi...

In this course, you will master your knot tying and suturing skills from first principles. Experienced consultant surgeons will give you formative feedback on local anesthetic application, your instrument handling, tissue manipulation, and minor operative techniques. Once your skills have been practiced you will perform minor operating procedure...

This course will aid you in developing your curriculum vitae so that your previous experience and attributes will stand out. The course also explores the optimum ways you can win over the interview panel at that all-important interview. Managing difficult questions, demonstrating your prime competencies and improving your body language will be e...