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Patient Information Videos

Mar 20, 2024 | Blog

Patient Information Videos This Patient Information video series is a resource to support patients who need advice on women’s health issues and to empower them in advance of visiting their GP so they know what to expect in a consultation. After a consultation, a GP...

A day in the life of the College President…Dr Eamonn Shanahan

Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, The President's Blog

President’s Blog 2023 – 2024 IMO Doolin Memorial Lecture 2023 On 2nd December, I attended two functions. Firstly, I met with colleagues from the IMO for their annual Doolin Memorial Lecture in RCSI. The President of the IMO, Dr John Cannon, who recently graduated...

Menopause Patient Information

May 23, 2022 | Blog

Menopause Patient Information This list of resources has been assembled by the ICGP’s Director of Women’s Health, Dr Nóirín O’Herlihy and the ICGP’s GP Clinical Lead in Women’s Health, Dr Ciara McCarthy. The 5 short videos below are here...

What does the most recent IPCC Report on Climate Change mean for Irish General Practice?

Apr 21, 2022 | Blog

by Dr Seán Owens, Chair, Sustainability Working Group of the Irish College of General Practitioners Every 5 years the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body for assessing the science relating to climate change, convene and report on the current...

ICGP welcomes the Earth Day 2021 theme #RestoreOurEarth

Apr 22, 2021 | Blog, College News

We recognise that we cannot have healthy patients, healthy doctors, healthy nurses or healthy GP Trainees when we have an unhealthy planet. In May 2019, Ireland became the second country on the planet to declare a climate emergency. That same month, the ICGP...

President’s Blog: The Joy of General Practice

Apr 12, 2021 | Blog, The President's Blog

Over the years it has often been said to me: “I don’t know how you do it – day in day out listening to tales of pain and suffering and complaining; I could not stick it even for one day”. Yes. as GPs there is no doubt we encounter stories of pain and suffering,...