PhD

We are very pleased to have the largest programme of postgraduate education in general practice and primary care on the island of Ireland. Our courses are completely modularised allowing students to register for courses of one module, incrementally building to a PhD, if so desired!  Indeed NUI Galway were the first department to award a PhD in primary care in Ireland. Our postgraduate courses are broadly distributed between the three themes of primary care concepts, clinical primary care and clinical teaching.   
 
The university guidlines for research degree programmes

Current PhD’s in Primary Care

• Ruth McMenamin (2008- )
  An investigation of the impact of service learning on students, community partners and academic staff in occupational therapy and speech and language therapy at NUI Galway with an emphasis on the students experiences of civic engagement/with an emphasis on service users
  Supervisor: Professor Andrew W Murphy; co-supervisor: Dr Anne MacFarlane

• Akke Vellinga (2008- )
  Antibiotic prescribing and bacteriuria caused by trimethoprim and quinolone resistant bacteria in the community: a multilevel study with prospective patient and retrospective practice data
  Supervisor: Professor Andrew W Murphy; co-supervisor Professor Martin Cormican

Completed PhD’s

• Niamh Gallagher (2010)
  Patients’ perspectives of continuity of care in an out of hours general practice co-operative
  Supervisor: Professor Andrew W Murphy; co-supervisor: Dr Anne MacFarlane

• Brian Buckley (2007)
  Secondary prevention of ischaemic heart disease: a community cohort study of 1,609 people with a diagnosis of established ischaemic heart disease
   
• Molly Byrne (2003)
  Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: patients beliefs and health related behaviour (In collaboration with Dr Jane Walsh, Psychology)
   
• Victoria Ononeze (2004)
  The individual experience of heart disease: A qualitative study of the implications in heart disease prevention and management

Completed MD’s

• Liam Glynn (2006)
  Chronic kidney disease and mortality and morbidity among patients with established cardiovascular disease
   
• Tom Brett (2001)
  Prostate cancer in general practice: a five year prospective study