http://hdl.handle.net/10147/247711 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:57:49 GMT 2013-05-20T04:57:49Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/267232 Title: Training handbook Authors: Irish Committee on Irish Medical Training Description: The Irish Committee on Higher Medical Training (ICHMT), representing the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), its Faculties of Occupational Medicine, Paediatrics, Pathology, Public Health Medicine and the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, is the body responsible for the supervision of Higher Training in medicine and related specialties in Ireland. It has been devolved sufficient authority to enable it to establish and monitor training in the specialties under its supervision and to recommend doctors for admission to the Specialist Register, maintained by the Medical Council (Ireland). The Medical Council now performs many of its functions in relation to training and accreditation in these areas through the agency of the RCPI, but it retains the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that all the requirements set out in the specialist training programmes are met, and that all agreed procedures have been adhered to. The Medical Council requires the College, its Faculties and Institute to set standards, design appropriate curricula for each specialty and develop higher medical training programmes, each of which must be capable of providing all the opportunities necessary to gain the full range of competencies required. Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/267232 2004-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/263892 Title: An evaluation of TB service delivery in the Northern Area Health Board: thesis submitted as part requirement for the membership of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Authors: O'Meara, Mary Description: Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable infectious disease which, if not controlled, has major public health implications. TB remains a leading infectious cause of death globally, with almost two million deaths per year. Currently, one-third of the world's population is infected with TB. In 1991,640 TB cases were notified in Ireland. The national trend in TB notifications was downward until 2003, when 407 TB cases were notified to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. Data for Ireland for 2004 and 2005 show that TB notifications are increasing. Four hundred and sixty one TB cases were notified (crude rate11.81l 00,000 population) in 2005. The proportion of TB cases notified amongst non-Irish nationals has risen from 8.3% of notified cases in 1998 to almost one-third of notified cases in 2005. To date no case of extensively-drug resistant TB has been recorded in Ireland but cases of multi-drug resistant TB have been recorded on an almost annual basis since 1999. Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/263892 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/263872 Title: An evaluation and audit of the asylum seeker communicable disease screening service in the Eastern region: a report submitted for membership of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Authors: Doyle, Sarah Mary Description: The Department of Health and Children (DoHC) has issued guidelines for asylum seeker communicable disease screening in Ireland. This screening is offered on a voluntary basis in reception centres in the Eastern Region and follow-up is provided in some areas throughout the country to which asylum seekers are dispersed. The aim of this study was to evaluate and to do a baseline audit of the screening service provided (in reception centres and on dispersal) to asylum seekers who present to the reception centre clinics in relation to the DoHC guidelines. A number of approaches were taken: • interviews with service providers in the Eastern Region; • a survey of service providers in dispersal locations, in the East and in other areas; • analysis and interpretation of asylum seeker communicable disease screening clinic returns made over a number of years from reception centre clinics to Senior Area Medical Officers and the Director of Public Health; and • follow-up of individual screening records. Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/263872 2006-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/248932 Title: Recommendations for Dublin Paediatric Services Authors: Drumm, Brendan; Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Sub-committee of Faculty of Paediatrics on Description: There have been substantial developments in paediatrics in sub-speciality areas and in the mode of health care delivery. A model paediatric service needs to reflect these developments. The vast majority of admissions in the paediatric age group are acute with a good prognosis. On the other hand, paediatric sub-specialty care looks after conditions which are nearly always individuaiy rare. Thus there is a great need for centralisation of this kind of expertise at least in terms of initial diagnosis and management. Health Care delivery needs to be very flexible with an emphasis on reducing inpatient care as far as possible. The care needs to be child centred, and all the professional staff need to have expertise in children. Children's hospitals tailor their services to the special needs of children, but this is more difficult in a general hospital where the needs of children may not be well considered. Children are different physically and emotionally from adults and for most of their years are a dependent population requiring close contact with their family. The prevention of illness is an important component of paediatric care. Social factors have a major impact on child health and disease. The adult paradigm of hospital care does not usually suit the paediatric population. For all of the above reasons there is a well defined hierachy of care in paediatrics which combines and cooperates with community paediatrics and child psychiatry. Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/248932 2012-10-15T00:00:00Z