Postgraduate medical training

At St. Vincent’s University Hospital, our size, multidisciplinary skills and expertise in emergency medicine allow us to provide a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research opportunities to students and newly qualified doctors from Ireland and overseas.

We are also the primary referral centre for the region, which provides healthcare professionals with an ideal training ground for many aspects of emergency medicine and related specialties.

General training in emergency medicine

There are dedicated and protected teaching times for our doctors and nurses. Teaching for our middle-grade registrars is focused on the core aspects of the curriculum for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Particular attention is given to critical appraisal of the literature, objective structured clinical examinations, short answer questions and management scenarios.

The Emergency Department has a dedicated simulation room with state-of-the-art simulation equipment. Additional multidisciplinary teaching sessions are held on both a scheduled and impromptu basis and many of our consultants are established examiners for both the membership and fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.