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Dr Karthik Srinivasan recently received the HSE Open Access Researcher of the Year 2019 award from Ms Ana Terres, Deputy National Director HSE. The award made jointly with Prof George Shorten was based  on the work on proficiency based progression training in epidural placement at Cork University Maternity Hospital. “Proficiency-based progression training: an ‘end to end’ model for decreasing error applied to achievement of effective epidural analgesia during labour: a randomised control study”. The background is that training procedural skills using proficiency-based progression (PBP) methodology has…

Dr Dorothy Breen and Prof George Shorten, with the support of the Clinical Research Facility in Cork have been awarded €280,000 jointly by the HRB and HSE, to fund a patient safety research project entitled PROTECT. The Research Collaborative in Quality and Patient Safety (RCQPS) award is intended to promote research in quality and patient safety in healthcare. PROTECT aims to determine the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary, outcomes-based, team training programme for Safety Huddle performance in decreasing the incidence of patient adverse events. The study…

The programme and poster for the Global Enhanced Recovery Symposium February 2020 The programme for the Global Enhanced Recovery Symposium February 2020 The poster for the Global Enhanced Recovery Symposium February 2020

Dr Liam Conroy recieved the EFIC Pain Champion Award at an award ceremony held at the Bi-annual EFIC Scientific Meeting, in Valentia in September.  The award was in recognition of his commitment to patients and to education in pain medicine over many years. Dr Conroy was actively involved in the original Faculty of Anaesthesia at RCSI and latterly in the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland and the Faculty of Pain Medicine.  For the past three years he has served as Chairman of the European Diploma…