Teaching

Undergraduate

Psychiatry is taught at three stages in the medical degree.

Clinical 1 - this Clinical Skills module is part of both UEM and GEM.

Clinical 2 - one of four speciality placements in the late penultimate and early final years. Students rotate through along with Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Medicine in the Community. This is the main part of the teaching for Psychiatry and comprises a six week intense block of teaching and clinical placement, culminating in the final exams in Psychiatry which includes an OSCE. 

In Clinical 2 our students experience clinical placements at a range of sites, gaining exposure to adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychiatry of later life, liaison psychiatry, eating disorder psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry and psychiatry for homeless persons. These clinical placements are delivered at the following sites:

• (opens in a new window)Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• (opens in a new window)St Vincent’s University Hospital
• (opens in a new window)St John of God Hospital
• (opens in a new window)St Vincent’s Hospital, Fairview
• (opens in a new window)Portlaoise Hospital
• (opens in a new window)HSE North Dublin CAMHS
• (opens in a new window)CHI – Temple Street and Crumlin
• (opens in a new window)Phoenix Care Centre, Dublin
• (opens in a new window)Programme for The Homeless, Dublin
• Eating Disorder Service, Mount Carmel

PCM - this module is in the final term of the degree and prepares students for intern year. The Psychiatry workshops at this stage are designed to be practical preparations for the sorts of issues interns are likely to encounter.

Postgraduate

Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry

UCD - (opens in a new window)Mater Deanery 

UCD - (opens in a new window)St John of God Hospital’s Deanery