Undergraduate Courses

Undergraduate Teaching and Awards

Teaching

The Discipline of Obstetrics & Gynaecology teaches the Women’s and Health module in conjunction with the Discipline of Paediatrics to Year 4 medical students and contributes 20 ECTS.  

The Women's and Children's Health Module (WCH) consists of two eight week learning blocks delivered over two semesters. In each eight week block, four weeks are dedicated to women's health and four weeks to children's health.  Block 1, Semester 1 introduces the student to common women's and children's presentations and related topics as well as building on their clinical skills in this setting.  Block 2, Semester 2 consolidates learning from semester 1 and introduces students to more complex presentations.  

The WCH module is clinically focused.  It encourages interactive learning and student participation in clerking patients. Students present case presentation and are also scheduled on-call and to present on ward rounds. 

The following teaching methods are employed in the module:

• Lectures
• Tutorials (class and ward based)
• Clinical placement
• Case-based learning
• Workshops
• Portfolio 

Undergraduate Awards

The Discipline of Obstetrics & Gynaecology has an excellent record with students achieving awards both nationally and internationally.  The Henry Hutchinson Stewart Medical Scholarship is a competition run annually across the NUI universities, in 16 different categories, and open to students of Medicine, Nursing and related health areas. Obstetrics & Gynaecology students have won 11 prizes since 2007. 

Henry Hutchinson Stewart Medical Scholarship

2014    Cillian McNamara awarded 1^st prize; Anne-Marie Sweeney awarded 2^nd prize
2013    Sarah Cormican awarded 1^st prize; William Martin awarded 3^rd prize 

2012    Cliona Small awarded 1^st prize; Jennifer Scott awarded a Commendation 
2011    Larissa Higgins awarded 1^st prize; Terese O’Dowd awarded 2^nd prize

2010    Maeve Cahill awarded 1^st prize 

2009    Ciaran Ó Fearaigh awarded 3^rd prize

2008    Ciara O'Riordan awarded 1^st prize; Marie Power awarded 3^rd prize

2007    Aideen Brides awarded 1^st prize 

Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine – Commendation

2014    Kevin Farrell won a Commendation for his oral presentation "A Case Cohort Study of the Morbidity Associated with Emergency Caesarean Section for Failed Vaginal Birth after Caesarean (VBAC) in Comparison to the Morbidity of Emergency Caesarean Sections for Other Reasons" in New Orleans, USA

School of Medicine, NUI Galway Undergraduate Research Day 

2013     Kevin Farrell won the Gold Medal for his oral presentation "A Case Cohort Study of the Morbidity Associated with Emergency Caesarean Section for Failed Vaginal Birth after Caesarean (VBAC) in Comparison to the Morbidity of Emergency Caesarean Sections for Other Reasons"

Health Research Board Summer Student Fellowships 

2004     Michael O’Reilly who won 1^st place at the poster competition for candidates with a HRB Summer Student Fellowship, held at the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI)

Society for Gynecologic Investigation – Young Investigators Award 

2003    Crochan O’Sullivan won a Young Investigators Award at the Society for Gynecologic Investigation meeting in Washington D.C., USA