Regular updates will be published here on our website, providing you with practical advice and helpful resources in these extremely challenging circumstances.

The new guidelines advise maternity units around the provision of safe care to women and infants with suspected or confirmed COVID-19

Here we will share a selection of COVID-19 resources aimed at a medical audience, including an ethical framework for decision-making in a pandemic.

The HSE is developing an online repository for Interim Clinical Guidance

We are actively seeking to grow our Fellowship community and welcome applications from doctors who would like to become Fellows of RCPI

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

We can guide you through process of enrolling on a Professional Competence Scheme, which will support your continuing professional development

In our General Data Protection Regulation and Medical Practice Guideline we have summarised the Data Controller Obligations that you should expect to see in your organisation to ensure your patient’s right to privacy is protected.

Ahead of National HPV Awareness Day, the Committee says that denying a young girl HPV vaccine increases the very real risk that they might develop and even die from cervical cancer.

Professor Fergus Shanahan, Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCC, will be speaking at Medicine in Changing Times on Saturday 21 October. The title of his lecture is Bad Language in Medicine. Here, he outlines what to expect...

The Irish Government must act quickly to enact the Public Health Alcohol Bill to save lives due to alcohol harm

An opportunity for paediatric frontline teams to learn Quality Improvement and patient safety skills. Learn how to implement an innovative improvement bundle developed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK. Starts November 2019

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

The fifth Irish Congress of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatal Medicine (ICOGPM) will take place on 28 and 29 November 2019 in the Galway Bay Hotel. Conference programme now available.

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Vaccinating boys and girls is the best opportunity we have to eliminate HPV-related cancers in Ireland

Inquiry into CervicalCheck Screening Programme

Read the Institute's opening statement to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health as part of a discussion on clinical guidelines for abortion services in Ireland

The office was officially opened on 7 November by Prof Mary Horgan, RCPI President.

RCPI is hosting a WHO National Quality and Strategy Programme special training workshop with the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) in Dublin this week.

Our MRCPI conferring ceremony on 9 April 2020 has been cancelled.

Prizes awarded for Best Oral Presentation, Best Three Minute Magic presentation, and Best Poster. Congratulations to all winners!

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

527 doctors commenced postgraduate medical training programmes at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in July.

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

A new paper by the Faculties of Paediatrics and Public Health Medicine highlights the health risks and harm to children caused by the housing crisis. They are calling for 20 immediate actions across the areas of policy, service provision, and data and research.

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.

6 - 7 February 2020 - Join us for the Faculty of Pathology's 38th Annual Symposium and Annual General Meeting. Programme now available.

The opening ceremony will take place in the Innovation Hub, Ground Floor, Tallaght Hospital at 5pm. All Trainees, Members and Fellows working in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group are welcome to attend.

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