Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

We've a building down the road where we provide our inpatient and outpatient physiotherapy services and, We have a strong connection with UCD.

We have a strong connection with RCSI.

So the National Maternity Hospital is far more than just this building.

It's obviously the epicenter of everything we do, but we have services throughout the county and throughout Wicklow as well.

So let's hope that gets there.

But the lung health screening pilot that was run by RCSI and by the Irish Cancer Society in 2024.

That's already closed up because they've hit their screening targets.

And that was only rolled out to a certain cohort of patients in Dublin and County Louth, I think it was.

And then I guess from an occupational therapy point of view, and like my work is predominantly in acute services, in acute hospitals, but within therapy circles, there's definitely more of a research focus on integrated care, community-based osteoarthritis services.

There's the ENACT project and RCSI, which is Irish research looking at osteoarthritis care in the community and I think when you see that you know targeted at our specific healthcare that's something that's to me very exciting because what it means is those people that maybe you know have waited a long time to see a therapist can just get that little bit of support early on that might just prevent this you know becoming a larger problem than it needs to be.

Yeah well that is really promising and I hope that does come down the track soon.

Absolutely

This child has no ability to analyze, but the reader knows and sees and wants to jump in and protect the child.

This child has been left with her grandparents in Trinidad while her parents live in Ireland because the father is studying medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Actually, I might be mixing up the truth of the story with what was written in the book.

So you'll have to forgive me.

I took a year in Colorado, and then I met somebody that said, hey, have you ever checked out Ireland for education, for medical education.

And so I looked to go in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and they interviewed, accepted me, and I moved to Dublin, was there five years, connected with surgery, matched at the University of Utah.

Early on there, worked at Primary Children's as an intern and had incredible mentorship.

And when I saw the pediatric surgeons, just not only what they did, but that heavy weight of taking care of people's children that really landed with me.

Ronan, thank you very much.

Dr. Ronan Daly there, clinical lecturer and registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Rotunda and the RCSI.

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