Work as an emergency fellow in Ireland

I posted on this last year but the department I work in as a few upcoming vacancies in July so I thought I would update things for those who might want to come work.

Are you an emigrated Irish doc in training in Oz or NZ and fancy coming home for 6 months as part of your training? Are you a kiwi or Aussie and fancy some time in Europe as part of your training?* Do you simply want to come and work in a different system and advance your practice. Then these might be the jobs for you. Are you an Irish trainee between basic and advanced training? If you’re working in Ireland and fancy a career development opportunity in one of the big Dublin hospitals then read on. 

[* the Mater is accredited for training in Ireland through the (recently Royal) college of emergency medicine which is the specialist college for emergency medicine in the UK and Ireland. From communication with the Australasian College in Emergency Medicine (ACEM) we have been told that any trainee wishing to undertake training overseas and have that time accredited toward their ACEM training can apply to ACEM prior to beginning the post and obtain prior approval to have the training added toward their ACEM training. So as far as we know we are eligible for training by ACEM too]

The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (The Mater) in north Dublin is one of the main tertiary centres in the country. It has the national spinal injuries centre and all major specialities apart from neurosurgery and as far as I’m aware it’s the only place doing ECMO in the country. The hospital recently (2013) moved to brand new facilities including a new Emergency Dept, theatres and ICU.

The ED encompasses a large ‘acute floor’ model with acute medicine working out of the same department.  There is a 5 bed resus with CT scanning within the resus bay. There are 2 dedicated ED ultrasound machines.

The hospital serves one of the more deprived areas of Dublin with the obvious result that it sees a fascinating range of pathology from stab wounds, pedestrian trauma to complications of alcohol and  intravenous drug use and all the interesting infectious disease complications that come with it. One of the emergency medicine trainees is a lead for an international HIV screening project in the department.

The ED has created several posts at registrar level to attract new staff and facilitate career development. All posts have protected non clinical time to pursue the appropriate sub specialty. Clinical work will be on the registrar rota in the ED.

Link to official job advert [search for mater misericordiae]

Video ad from Dr Tomas Breslin, Consultant in EM, Mater Hospital

Feel free to contact myself [emergencymedicineireland [at] gmail.com] or Tomas Breslin [tbreslin [at] mater.ie] if interested.

Fellow in imaging

• 20% protected non clinical time
• 2 machines in ED
• Weekly USS teaching (led by fellows)
• Liaison with emergency radiology (fellowship trained)
• Echo Module
  • 6 months
  • 2 hrs/wk in ICU with echo tech supervised scanning
  • 1hr/wk with ED/CCU patients with echo tech supervised scanning
  • Formal lectures
  • Examination
• Early Pregnancy Module
  • based in local maternity hospital
  • this years fellows just starting
• Suitable for (but not limited to)
  • post basic EM training, able to work clinically as registrar/advanced trainee in ED
  • prior to entry to formal higher training scheme, allows clinical development and level 1 USS skills with space to develop CV prior to application to higher trainingOR
  • post training as a fellowship to acquire higher level ultrasound skills
  • particularly well suited to UK/Australasian/South African trainees as registration recognised

Education fellow

• University hospital with huge opportunities for educational development
• Already happening in ED
  • weekly Registrar/consultant teaching (focused on FCEM exams)
  • weekly SHO teaching (focused on basic approaches to EM)
  • monthly radiology/EM/Acute medicine meeting
  • weekly ultrasound teaching
  • monthly joint EM/ICU meeting
  • Regular student placements as elective students throughout year or 4th year students for weekly placement jan-march
  • Online education induction package for SHOs and student placement
• 30% protected time for non clinical activities to coordinate and develop education in emergency medicine
• Suitable for (but not limited to)
  •  post basic training in EM,
  • able to work clinically as registrar/advanced trainee in ED

Airway Fellow

•  Clinical Fellow (Registrar level) in Emergency Airway Management
• 2 positions available
• successful candidates will have protected time in anaesthetic room/theatre/ED in order to facilitate development of emergency airway protocols and education, involving teaching undergraduates, interns and in-house simulation.
• In addition there will be an opportunity to join an ongoing collaboration between the ED and the department of Anatomy in UCD in developing 3D printing of airway models for research and teaching. (Approx. 25% WTE dedicated to Airway training).

Conflict of interest statement

• I work in the ED and really quite enjoy it there but no favours, cash or back rubs were exchanged for this post. I am happy to promote (on the same “no favours, cash or back rubs” terms) other interesting/innovative Irish emergency medicine jobs if people see the need.
• My opinions are of course my own and do not necessarily represent that of the hospital.