NIMDTA Dental Symposium

The Dental Continuing Education Department are pleased to announce that bookings can be made for their 3rd Annual Symposium:

"Patients in Pain" Managing Difficulties - Providing Solutions
Friday 27 April 2012
Meet at the Mill, Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey

Managing patients with a dental emergency is an essential and sometimes challenging aspect of practice. This day will provide practical solutions to overcome some of these challenges and will reflect the contribution that can be made by all team members.

To book your place on this course, click here.

QUB Information for F2’s

The Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology is offering a three-year PhD Clinical Research Training Fellowship funded by Cancer Research UK.  Please Click Here for details.

A range of Postrgraduate Research Opportunities for September 2012 can be found HERE.

An open day for PhD Studentships (commencing September 2012) is being held on Wednesday 8 February 2012 - a poster for the event can be viewed HERE.

 

 

Oral Soft Tissue Disease

Oral Soft Tissue Disease, taking place on 30 January 2012, is now available for the whole Dental Team to book onto.

 Dental Care Professionals and Dentists can now book a place on this course by clicking here.

GAIN 1st Annual HSC Quality Awards

GAIN (Guidelines and Audit Implementation Network) is holding their 1st Annual Health and Social Care Quality Awards on 17 April 2012 at Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey. 

Submissions are now being invited for the following areas:

  • Service improvement and innovation
  • Patient/Client safety
  • Audit

All entries must be submitted by 13 February 2012.

For full details, please click here.

Irish Network of Medical Educators Annual Meeting

The 5th Irish Network of Medical Educators (INMED) Annual Scientific Meeting and Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 24 February 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin.

For further details, please click here.

Abstract submissions are invited for the meeting - please click here for further details.

 

New Dental Symposium

NIMDTA’s 3rd Annual Symposium is now online and available to book.

Patients in Pain: Managing Difficulties - Providing Solutions will be taking place on Friday 27 April 2012 in Meet at the Mill, Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey.

The course is suitable for all members of the Dental Team and will provide 6 hours CPD. To book your place or for more information please click here.

 

Dental Trainer

The Agency is currently advertising for dental trainers throughout Northern Ireland.  As a trainer you will guide the trainee at a pivotal state of their career acting as mentor and helping with the development from an undergraduate to an independent confident practitioner who will be able to work safety, efficiently and effectively as an NHS dentist.   

For further information please click here.

Health Protection Service Bulletin

Issue 6 of Transmit, the Health Protection Newsletter, is now available on the Public Health Agency Website.

Please CLICK HERE to access.

Issue 7 is now also available HERE.

 

RCPSG MRCP Part 1 & MRCP PACES Courses

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) is holding a series of courses for MRCP Part 1 and MRCP PACES.

Please see the documents below for details:

 

 

Specialty Recruitment 2012

Please click here to go to the Specialty Recruitment pages of our website.

GP CPD Course Programme & Membership - Now Available

GP CPD Courses & Membership now available to book online

We are delighted to announce our new educational programme and CPD Membership for September 2011 – June 2012 is now Available on the Intrepid Online Booking System.

Membership allows, for a one off payment of £175.00, to book unlimited courses from the GP Course Programme (T&C Apply)

Individual courses can also be booked for a fee of £60.00

Please click here to view the courses available

OPEN: Dental VT & GPT Trainee posts

The application process for VT (1yr) and GPT (2 yr) training posts in Dentistry commencing August 2012 is now open.  For futher information on the schemes please go to the Trainee Recruitment pages in the Dentistry section of this site

BMA Guidance on “Using Social Media”

The BMA have issued a document titled "Using Social Media: practical and ethical guidance for doctors and dentists in training".

The document can be accessed on the BMA website by clicking HERE

 

 

QUB Professional Development Seminar Series: Autumn 2011

The School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Centre for Medical Education has released the Programme for the Autumn 2011 Professional Developement Seminar Series.

Details can be found HERE.

 

 

RCPSG Triennial Conference 2011

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow is holding its second Triennial Conference for Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists and associated professionals on 10-11 November 2011 at SECC Glasgow.

Details can be viewed HERE.

For further information, and details of how to register, please visit http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk.

 

 

PG Certificate in Managing Medical Careers

The KSS Deanery runs, through its partnership with the University of Brighton, a Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Managing Medical Careers.

The course is designed to offer participants an opportunity to become more proficient in the provision of career support to medical students and junior doctors.

Further information, and details of how to apply, can be obtained HERE.

 

 

NI Health & Social Care Library

The DHSSPS have a contract with Queen’s University Belfast, to deliver a library service to all HSC personnel across Northern Ireland.

The NI Health & Social Care Library delivers its services and resources via a single website and a range of physical library locations across the province. The website, called honni (Health on the Net Northern Ireland), can be accessed at www.honni.qub.ac.uk.  To further help busy health professionals take advantage of this service the library provides a person to help, a subject librarian, who will offer support by:-

  • Answering your queries about library services and resources, eg how to order articles online that can be delivered directly to you
  • Providing training on using honni and/or its resources to groups of staff at a location convenient to them
  • Help with searching for literature on the various databases available through honni (ie professionals doing research or CPD may need individual assistance and guidance on using the resources)

Information regarding the service can be obtained below:

 

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