Transition Year students from the South East took part in the Waterford RCSI Transition Year Mini-Med training programme from Tuesday 12th - Friday 15th February 2013 in Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) and Waterford Institute of Technology. The interactive programme gave Transition Year students the opportunity to experience what it is like to train and work as a doctor.
Transition Year students pictured during a practical demonstration with Professor Riona Mulcahy, Waterford Regional Hospital.
As part of the programme, students witnessed a live operation, attended interactive lectures, gained hands-on training in clinical skills as well as practical experience in medicine and scientific tutorials.
Pictured are Transition Year students Tom ORourke and Niamh OGorman, St. Augustines College, Dungarvan with Mike Burke, Waterford Regional Hospital.
Leading medical professionals from RCSI and Waterford Regional Hospital delivered the programme, on a range of topics including human anatomy, respiratory medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, geriatric medicine, emergency medicine, cardiology and general practice.
Pictured are Transition Year students Aisling French, Tommy Harty, Eadaoin McMahon and Tom ORourke, St. Augustines College, Dungarvan.
The 2013 Waterford Mini-Med Programme was coordinated by Professor Riona Mulcahy, Undergraduate Dean, Senior Lecturer in Medicine, RCSI and Waterford Regional Hospital ; Professor Fred Jackson, Department of Medicine, RCSI, Waterford Regional Hospital; and Mr. Joe OBeirne, RCSI Council Member and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics, RCSI, Waterford Regional Hospital.
Pictured is Janet Murphy, Advanced Midwife Practitioner with Transition Year students.
Waterford Regional Hospital is a teaching hospital of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Since 1998, RCSI has been sending students in their final two years to the hospital to attend clinical rotations in Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.
Pictured are Professor Riona Mulcahy, Undergraduate Dean, Senior Lecturer in Medicine, RCSI and Waterford Regional Hospital; Professor Fred Jackson, Department of Medicine, RCSI, Waterford Regional Hospital; Professor Hannah McGee, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, RCSI and Mr. Joe OBeirne, RCSI Council Member and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics, RCSI, Waterford Regional Hospital