Global Health Education Ireland Symposium 2020 - Session 3

Session 3: Global health education in Ireland – what next?

Within undergraduate and postgraduate medical training curricula in Ireland, education in global health competencies is limited. The aim of this session is to learn about developments in global health education that are currently underway.

Our speakers draw on developments from across the continuum of medical education and training, different specialty areas and include doctors in non-training posts.

Moderator: Dr Nadine Ferris France, Executive Director, Irish Global Health Network

Speakers:
• Prof Diarmuid O’Donovan, Professor in Global Health, Queen’s University Belfast
• Dr Chris Jenkins, Queen’s University Belfast
• Dr Niamh McCarthy, Co-chair, Subgroup on Incorporating Global Health into Postgraduate Medical
Training Programmes, Forum of Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies
• Prof Mark Shrime, O’Brien Chair of Global Surgery, RCSI
• Prof Frank Murray, Director, National Doctors Training Programme, HSE
• Dr Sandra Green, Co-founder, Irish Doctors for the Environmen