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UCD Medical Students

The RHD is a designated university teaching hospital for the University College Dublin (UCD) Medical School facilitating the “Medicine in the Community” module of the UCD undergraduate programme in medicine. Approximately 160 UCD medical students rotate through the RHD on a one-week attachment. A clinical tutor – a registrar in geriatric medicine – organises lectures, tutorials and examinations. Students benefit from hands-on experience of treating and interacting with patients and benefit from the dedicated teaching sessions they receive from the Medical Director, consultant geriatricians, nurses and health and social care professionals.

Postgraduate Training of Doctors

Junior hospital doctors from the following schemes rotate through the RHD services

  • Geriatric Medicine Specialist Registrar training scheme
  • Medical Senior House Officer (SHO) training scheme
  • UCD General Practitioner (GP) SHO training scheme
  • Trinity College Dublin (TCD) GP SHO training scheme
  • Specialist Registrar in Rehabilitation Medicine training scheme
Health & Social Care Professionals
  • The Occupational Therapy Department is a teaching site for Trinity College Dublin. A 0.5WTE Practice Tutor is based on site to assist with the clinical placements for up to 12 occupational therapy students per year.
  • Speech and Language Therapy student placements are also offered at the hospital.
  • The Physiotherapy Department is a teaching site for Trinity College Dublin offering physiotherapy student placements at the hospital.
  • Nutrition & Dietetic students from the Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street and Trinity College Dublin are also facilitated at the hospital.
Nursing Students

The hospital facilitates undergraduate student nursing placements with BSc student nurses carrying out their placement for Care of the Older Person at the hospital.

Health & Social Care Professionals
  • The Occupational Therapy Department is a teaching site for Trinity College Dublin.  A 0.5WTE Practice Tutor is based on site to assist with the clinical placements for up to 12 occupational therapy students per year.
  • Speech and Language Therapy student placements are also offered at the hospital.
  • The Physiotherapy Department is a teaching site for Trinity College Dublin offering physiotherapy student placements at the hospital.
  • Nutrition & Dietetic students from the Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street and Trinity College Dublin are also facilitated at the hospital.