Leading Medical Excellence

Currently, the MRCPI General Medicine Clinical exams scheduled for 28 February 2020 in Abu Dhabi, and on 6 – 7 March 2020 in Muscat, are going ahead as planned.

11 March 2020 - Option to stream live at home. Updates on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in critical illness; nosocomial infections in the ICU; brain death and organ donation in Ireland; how to optimise outcomes in patients with sepsis

RCPI Trainees who are parents, or are expecting a baby, are invited to a free coffee morning in RCPI on Wednesday 18 March 2020 from 11am to 1pm.

View all of our position papers and policy statements published since 2007

Through our Physician Wellbeing programme we are providing support, training and information to doctors at all stages of their careers

A free online course for healthcare professionals. Developed in partnership with UCD and designed to help you fully understand population cancer screening, interval cancers and the difference between diagnostic and screening tests

Significant changes are to be made to the membership, elections, roles and committees of Council

Prof Shannon appeared today (Wednesday, 28 June) before the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs to discuss issues arising from the Audit of the exercise by An Garda Síochána of Section 12 of the Child Care Act 1991.

The Faculty of Paediatrics is delighted to announce that the Kathleen Lynn Medal, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to Child Health, has been awarded to Dr Patricia Scanlan

Our latest paper on Irish doctor migration to Australia has been published. Deteriorating job quality and the normalisation of extreme working is driving doctor emigration from Ireland and deterring return.

We are delighted to announce that all final year medical students in Ireland are now eligible for the prestigious Reuben Harvey prize.

The RCPI Faculty of Pathology says cervical screening remains the most reliable and effective way of preventing and detecting early cancers.

Statement

Inquiry into CervicalCheck Screening Programme

Statement

The health system urgently needs to fill vacant posts and take actions to retain our highly-trained doctors. In our 2018 pre-Budget submission we are calling on the Government to prioritise the retention and recruitment of doctors.

The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland says that today’s news of a significant increase in uptake of the HPV vaccine is an important step towards cervical cancer elimination in Ireland.

Congratulations to all our newest Members! Our next MRCPI conferring ceremony will take place on 9 April 2020

Six Honorary Fellows have been admitted to RCPI and the Faculty of Paediatrics at Europaediatrics 2019

The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Improvement Collaborative has launched its interim report which sets out the progress and achievements of the Collaborative to date

On 21 June 2019 we welcomed 22 new Fellows and three Honorary Fellows

The exhibition commemorates 150 years of Irish medical services overseas. All welcome to visit the exhibition in No.6 Kildare Street

We have launched our Health and Wellbeing Department, an initiative created to aid Trainee and Trainer wellbeing within the College

An intensive one-day introduction to Lean Six Sigma. Lean and Six Sigma are two process improvement methodologies which, when used together become extremely effective ways to change and improve healthcare.

The Dun’s Librarian post has existed in RCPI since 1787 and has evolved in recent years to a role of oversight of the College’s Heritage Centre and historic collections.

The Institute of Medicine is now the training and professional body for Clinical Medicine specialties in Ireland