June 2025 - Issue 6
Across the Community
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25th Annual Temporal Bone Course held in RCSI
The 25th National Temporal Bone & Mastoid Surgery Dissection Course took place in the National Surgical & Clinical Skills Centre in RCSI on Thursday, 15 and Friday, 16 May 2025.
Course Director and Founder, Professor Rory McConn Walsh FRCSI, Consultant in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Beaumont Hospital said “congratulations to everybody concerned on a very successful 25 years of the Temporal Bone & Mastoid Surgery Dissection Course. It was the first clinical course to be held in RCSI, and I couldn’t have done it without the involvement of the Department of Surgical Affairs, Department of Anatomy, Faculty from all over the country, the extern from the UK and all our sponsors.”
This one-day course is part of the Higher Surgical Training programme in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and is a great opportunity for trainees to develop their dissection skills. The course is a mixture of lectures and practice with a large number of faculty in attendance for supervision and support. The course runs two days back-to-back so all trainees from ST3-ST8 can attend.
Mel Corbett FRCSI, said “it is a great opportunity to practice before you get into an Otology job and to meet all the Otology trainers.”
Thank you to Professor Rory McConn Walsh, Faculty, RCSI Facilitators and Sponsors.
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Beaumont RCSI Cancer Conference 2025
On Thursday, 22 May healthcare professionals attended the 2025 Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre Conference. Jointly hosted by RCSI and Beaumont Hospital, the conference highlighted leading-edge approaches to cancer diagnosis and treatment while also reinforcing the importance of equitable access to care across all populations. You can read more about the conference here. Our thanks to Ray Lohan for sharing some photographs captured at the event.
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ASGBI Congress 2025
The annual ASGBI Congress took place in Edinburgh in early May. As part of the programme, Mr Mohsen Javadpour, Consultant Neurosurgeon in Beaumont, represented RCSI and delivered the Robert Smith Lecture. His talk was entitled Safer neurosurgery through smaller openings: From microscope to endoscope to exoscope. Our congratulations to Mr Javadpour on delivering a fantastic lecture.
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Professor Donncha O'Brien FRCSI appointed as the National Clinical Advisor in Neurosurgery
The National Clinical Programme in Surgery are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Donncha O’Brien FRCSI as the National Clinical Advisor in Neurosurgery.
Professor O’Brien will play a key role in advancing the specialty of Neurosurgery through the National Clinical Programme in Surgery. This workstream will have its governance structure through the RCSI Committee for Surgical Affairs (CSA) and also with the National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead for HSE Access and Integration.
The role will offer leadership in the development and standardisation of new patient pathways, protocols, and guidelines to support the integration of neurosurgical services within the national trauma network. As of the beginning of 2025, there were over 11,000 patients waiting for an outpatients appointment, with over 2,000 waiting more than 18 months. There are almost 1000 patients waiting for an inpatient procedure. Key to this work is Identifying and coordinating solutions to improve the management of these waiting lists and enhanced service delivery;
On behalf of NCPS, we congratulate Professor O’Brien on being appointed to this role and wish both he and Miriam Kennedy as Project Manager every success in their roles.
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RCSI signatories to joint letter issued to Minister O'Callaghan and Minister Carroll MacNeill
RCSI were signatories to a letter sent by the Medical Protection Society (MPS) to Minister Jim O'Callaghan and Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill in relation to the urgent implementation of pre-action protocols to reduce the human and financial cost of clinical negligence claims.
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