Teaching & Learning

Overview

At University Hospital Galway and all the School of Medicine’s Academies, the Discipline of Anaesthesia’s teaching faculty create an enriched learning environment for students. A particular strength of anaesthesia is teaching how to build on already assimilated scientific knowledge being applied clinically to expertly deliver essential life sustaining treatments. Patient safety is strongly promoted through careful planning, communication, leadership and teamwork. Engagement is across the entire curriculum, mostly Years 3 and 5.

Undergraduate

• Programmes & Years: MB BCh BAO, Years 2–5
• Year 2: Organ Failure Mode
• Year 3: Foundations in Clinical Theory, Foundations in Clinical Diagnosis and Foundations in Clinical Management
• Year 5: Advanced Clinical Theory, Advanced Clinical Diagnosis and Advanced Clinical Management
• Teaching Methods: Small group tutorials, beside teaching, contribution to the lecture series, problem based learning sessions,
• Practical workshops teach airway management and intravenous therapy

Postgraduate

Taught

• Active contributor to the internship preparedness program
• Approved as accredited training centres for postgraduate specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine by national training bodies
• Through leadership roles in training bodies such as the College of Anaethesiologists of Ireland and the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Ireland, members of the University of Galway faculty actively participate at regional, national and international levels in postgraduate training, assessment, examinations, simulation, wellbeing and research

Research

There is a very strong postgraduate research programme under the leadership of Prof. John Laffey and Dr. Bairbre McNicholas:

• Postgraduate opportunities to pursue higher degrees at Masters, MD and PhD levels, with strong supervisor and post-doctoral supports
• Active laboratory based research programme, expertise in lung injury, stem cell therapy and gene based therapy
• Active recruiting participant in international clinical trials. Mechanical ventilation ARDS is a special clinical area of research expertise.
• Contributor in MSc in Cellular Therapies