RCSI Surgical Society

Hi everyone! Hope you guys have a great time during summer break. Well ,remember to renew your membership with us on StudentLifeHQ ;) and look out for our new events coming up soon !

Calling all Surgical Society members📣

We have some exciting news to share! 🎉 Get ready for our Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on Saturday, June 10th at 3 pm. 🗓️ This year, we're taking it online and hosting the event via MS Teams. 🌐

The EGM is your chance to make a difference! Run for a position on the Surgical Society committee and have your say on the non-core committee members. 🤝 To cast your vote, make sure you're a registered member of the RCSI Surgical Society (signed up on SLHQ) and attend the EGM.

Check out the available non-core committee positions that you can run for:
✅ 3x Surgical Skills Officers
✅ 2x Education Officers
✅ 2x Public Relations Officers
✅ 1x General Committee Member

Fill out the Google Forms application in our bio!!
But that's not all! We have an exciting raffle for you. 🎁Participate in the EGM, and you'll have a chance to win a suture kit! 🩺💉 Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity!
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us. We're here to help! 📩
Best of luck to all the candidates! 🍀 We can't wait to see what amazing contributions you'll bring to the Surgical Society!
Stay tuned for more updates and mark your calendars for the EGM! 🗓️💪

Hello everyone ! After another exciting academic year for the committee we will be holding our AGM next Monday 15th May at 6pm (Irish time) in a mixed format of in person and via MST. The purpose of this AGM will be to elect our new society committee so come and have your day and vote !!There will be a pizza reception afterwards.

To be eligible for this AGM you must have 1 year experience on the committee.

We will be holding our EGM at a later date to elect the rest of the committee. This change in our usual format is due to a recent change by student services. So keep your eyes peeled for that announcement !

Our Surgical skills team, led by Mohammad, Dan, and Artur, along with Lea's volunteered assistance, put together a comprehensive surgical skills training session for SC1s. 💪📚

The workshop was designed to equip the students with all the essential skills required for their upcoming summer surgical electives. The SC1s were trained on a variety of suturing techniques, including simple interrupted, continuous, ford interlocking, vertical and horizontal, and subcuticular sutures. In addition, they were taught how to handle surgical tools in a safe and proper manner.

We wish them the very best of luck with their upcoming surgical electives and we hope that they found our workshop to be informative and valuable! 💡💉🙌🏼

"Suturing with a twist!” 🍌🍊🍅🍇Trauma Day 2023, our Surgical Skills Team led by Mohammad, Katelyn and Niall, had the honor of leading the 'Reverse Fruit Ninja' workshop, where we taught attendees how to perform a pledgeted horizontal mattress suture on different fruits to mimic various types of tissue. It was a unique and exciting way to learn about trauma surgery, and we're grateful to the Emergency Society for hosting such a successful event. Massive congratulations to Committee on organizing an incredibly successful Trauma Day 2023! 👏 The event was a fantastic opportunity for attendees to learn and gain valuable skills. We hope that all of the attendees enjoyed the event as much as we did! Thank you for inviting us to be a part of it! 🤗 🙌

Introducing our final speaker for the evening, Ms. Ryan. Ms. Ryan is a General Surgery Specialist Registrar with special interests in colorectal and trauma surgery. She is currently taking two years out to complete a research degree in surgical handover and information transfer via the StAR MD Programme in RCSI. Jessica is the current President of the Irish Surgical Training Group, having served for two years as the Vice-President. Outside of surgery, she holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and recently won gold in the 2022 European Championships in Rome.

Next up, we’re introducing the first female surgeon to perform a liver transplant: Dr. Ascher!

Dr. Nancy Ascher has devoted her career to organ transplants and transplant research. Dr. Ascher completed her undergraduate and medical education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then went on to complete a general surgery residency and clinical transplantation fellowship at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Ascher joined the faculty of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota in 1982 and was named Clinical Director of the Liver Transplant Program. She was recruited in 1988 by the UCSF Department of Surgery to build a liver transplantation program. In 1991, she was appointed Chief of Transplantation, an expanded role that included liver, kidney and pancreas transplants.

In 1993, Dr. Ascher was appointed Vice-Chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, and in 1999 was appointed Department Chair where she served until September 2016.

Introducing: Mr. McMonagle✨

Mr. Morgan McMonagle is a consultant trauma surgeon in the North West London Trauma Network based at St Mary's Hospital, London and a general and vascular surgeon with the South/South West Hospital Group in Ireland. After graduating from University College Dublin (UCD) with honours in 1997, he undertook basic surgical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) hospital group after which he gained further trauma surgery experience at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Following this he gained extensive experience working in prehospital care and aeromedical retrieval with Careflight and Careflight International, Australia and later with MAGPAS air ambulance in the United Kingdom. He completed higher surgical training with the West Midlands surgical training programme, UK followed by a Vascular & Endovascular Fellowship at the Royal Brisbane & Women's hospital, Brisbane, Australia. He then undertook additional fellowship training in trauma, emergency surgery and surgical critical care at the world renowned and prestigious trauma programme Penn-Trauma at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, after which he was awarded fellowship of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). As well as being faculty on the NECPOD report "Trauma: who cares?" (2007), which was instrumental in the development of the UK trauma network, he was the first trauma surgeon appointed at Imperial Healthcare as part of the new London Trauma Network. He was also faculty member on the steering group advising on the document A Trauma System for Ireland: Report of the Trauma Steering Group for the Department of Health, Ireland.

Gear up for our next big event: Life of a Surgeon! This year we were honoured to have three esteemed speakers who will discuss their careers and pathways into surgery! Stay tuned for their speaker biographies!!

Happening on the 13th of April 🎉🎉

Thrilled to have collaborated with the Plastics Club for our first collaboration event of the year! Our surgical skills officers, Mohammad and Dan, alongside Michael and Eva from the Plastics Club, led a fantastic workshop on plastic and reconstructive techniques. We covered the half buried mattress suture, corner stitch, and 3-point junction suture - essential skills for any aspiring surgeon. Thank you to everyone who attended and made it such a success☺️!

Here is a recap of the intercollegiate surgical case competition! We would like to thank all of the judges and competitors for coming out with amazing cases, as well as our beloved audience for supporting our events. Congratulations to NUIG for taking home the medal this year!

We’re back with advanced skills sessions 💥‼️
Join us this Thursday for an XL advanced session where we’ll be teaching horizontal and vertical mattress sutures with the option of learning surgical slip knots!

Booking goes live on the HQ TONIGHT at 8 pm!

Please note: you must have attended a basic skills session prior to attending an advanced session☺️ haven’t made it to basic skills? Worry not! We will be offering basic sessions all semester.

It was FANTASTIC to see all of the delegates at this year’s International Conference for Medical and Healthcare Students at RCSI! We hope you all enjoyed learning about basic suturing skills and hopefully we inspired some future surgeons😷👩‍⚕️

Thank you to our INCREDIBLE surgical skills team! Without our dedicated student teachers this would not be possible - Thank you to Eunice, Daniel, Mohammad and Conor under the leadership of our Skills Officer Katelyn!

Ready for our intercollegiate? Take a look at our brief recap for this year’s internal case competition! We’re looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! 🩺

‼️Attention‼️

The annual ISTG meeting is taking place on Saturday 28th January in the Desmond Auditorium in RCSI. Looking forward to seeing all of you there.

It is a great opportunity for student’s interested in surgery to network with trainees !

The event is fully in person and registration is free: https://rcsi.eventsair.com/charter-meeting-2023/istg/Site/Register (link in bio)

Hi all! We hope you had an amazing holiday.

Submissions for the internal case competition is now open! Make sure to submit by January in order to be eligible! Presenters will have 7 minutes with a 3 minute Q&A session! Each case must be presented via PowerPoint and include the following:
- Case format
- History
- Physical examination
- Differential Diagnosis
- Management (Investigations, treatment, pre-operative, intra-operative, post-operative noted where appropriate)
- Follow-up

We are asking RCSI to Speak Out at rcsi.speakout.ie

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!! A date for our Internal Skills Competition has been announced! The competition will take place on January 7th. If you are interested, a sign up form will be released on December 5th.

The skills competition will take place on Jan 7th (Saturday) and will involve hand-tying, simple interrupted sutures and laparoscopy stations. Only 40 spots will be available so competitors should sign up fast if they want to compete👩‍⚕️🧑‍⚕️

Final programme for Career’s Day on the 19th November, we hope to see you all there! 🩺🩻🥼

A night not to be missed! Join us on Monday 7th November, 7-8:30pm for our 9th Annual Presidential Inauguration!
You do NOT need to book on Student Life HQ- just come and enjoy.

Thank you all for coming out to the fresher election! We would like to thank everyone for their participation, we had some amazing applications! Congratulations Artur and welcome to the society!🎉

What you were all waiting for!! SIGN UP OPENS TOMORROW AT NOON! Spots fill up quickly, so make sure you get them booked!🥰

Our first event of the year!! Book now on SLHQ! Spots are limited🤯

Thank you all for coming and signing up on SLHQ! If you missed us today, don’t worry! You can check our LinkTree for easy access to the link!🥳🥳

WE ARE RECRUITING! Keep an eye out for the application form! We’re searching for a Fresher Representative and we want you to join our election! Come out to cheer on your peers and apply if you would like! Make sure to keep an eye out for the google forms on SLHQ and social media platforms!!

Here is the second half of our committee! We are so excited to meet you all! Stay tuned on our stories and get to know us better!

Introducing our committee! Meet half of the executive team!

Hey everyone! We hope you guys are having a great summer! We wanted to share a wonderful opportunity to meet some of the best in the surgical field through the AIMS American Irish Sports Forum!

The inaugural American Irish Medical Summit (AIMS) will explore topics on Alliance and Collaboration, Innovation, Mentorship and lessons that the medical field can learn from sports. AIMS is a collaboration between leading physicians from America and Ireland and experts in innovation. The meeting takes place in RCSI on 25th August. For further information and registration visit www.aimssummit.com.

Later that evening the American Irish Sports Form takes place in the Desmond Auditorium 630-8pm. It explores Irish American sporting success and combining medicine with elite sport. Speakers include Jamie Heaslip and Minister Jack Chambers. Link for registration https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/american-irish-sport-forum-tickets-370362854267

Thank you all for attending our first ever hybrid AGM yesterday! We are excited to have counted your votes for the 2022/2023 executive committee and hope to announce the team soon! In the meanwhile, make sure to keep an eye out for any future events!