Skip Navigation LinksRCPI > News > End of First Five Year CAS Cycle
Recipients of CAS Certificates 
 End of First Five Year CAS Cycle 
10/10/2008 
Dr John Donohoe presented certificates of completion of the first 5-year CAS cycle to Fellows of The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland at a meeting held on 3rd October at RCPI No.6 Kildare Street.  

Pictured at the meeting:  Prof Frank Murray, Dr Ken Addley, Dr Mary Holohan and Dr Geoff Chadwick, who were among the first physicians to complete the 5-year cycle.

Competence Assurance Structures

In January 2003, following several years of planning and consultation, the Medical Council introduced Competence Assurance Structures (CAS).  CAS is for all doctors in independent practice (i.e. those who have completed their training).  Initially, half of those doctors on the Medical Council’s Register of Medical Specialists were enrolled in CAS from 1st January 2003 and the remaining doctors from 1st January 2004.  New registrants are enrolled on the 1st January each year.

For more information on this subject visit the Continuing Medical Education pages.