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Royal College Of Physicians Of Ireland
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), () is an Irish professional body dedicated to improving the practice of general medicine and related medical specialty, medical specialities, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. History The "Royal" in the title comes from the royal charters that were granted in 1667, by King Charles II of England, and in 1692, by King William III of England, William III and Queen Mary II of England. It was known as the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland until 1890 when, under the charter of Queen Victoria, it adopted its present title. The college was founded in 1654 by John Stearne (physician), John Stearne, a professor and registrar of Trinity College Dublin, for the purpose of regulating the practice of medicine in Ireland. Originally, it was called "The Fraternity of Physicians of Trinity Hall", as its first home was in a building called Trinity Hall (Dublin), Trinity Hall, given to the Physicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Royal College
In the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth realm, Commonwealth realms and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, a medical royal college is a professional body responsible for the development of and training in one or more medical speciality, medical specialities. United Kingdom and Ireland Standards and guidance They are generally charged with setting standards within their field and for supervising the training of doctors within that speciality, although the responsibility for the application of those standards in the UK, since 2010, rests with the General Medical Council. In the United Kingdom and Ireland most medical royal colleges are members of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) are listed below, with their postgraduate faculties (some of which are independently members of the academy) and institutes. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges itself has one faculty of its own – the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. International role The Royal Colleges are involved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apothecaries' Hall Of Ireland
The Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland is one of only two extant successors of a medieval Guilds of the City of Dublin, Dublin guild. Apothecaries in Dublin were first organized as members of the 1446 Guild of Barbers, with St Mary Magdelene as the patron saint. In 1747, Apothecaries formed their own guild, with St Luke as the patron. In 1791, the Company of Apothecaries’ Hall was formed for the purposes of building their own Hall and regulating practitioners throughout Ireland. Although the Company ceased licensing doctors in 1971, it continues to exist as a statutory corporation. The Company of Apothecaries’ Hall now shares premises with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on Kildare Street, Dublin. History Guild of St Mary Magdelene Early apothecaries in Dublin were members of the Guild of Barbers. The patron of the guild was St Mary Magdelene. The Barbers’ Guild was founded in 1446 by a charter of Henry VI (25 Henry VI) (the earliest royal or secular medical foundati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hearn
Mary Ellice Thorn Hearn M.D. F.R.C.P.I. (25 February 1891 – 1969) was a gynaecologist and first female fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Early life and education Hearn was born on 25 February 1891 to Ashley Cummins (rugby union), William Edward Ashley Cummins (1858–1923), Professor of Medicine at University College Cork, and Jane Constable Cummins (née Hall) in Cork. They had five daughters and six sons. Geraldine Cummins was a playwright. Jane Cummins was a squadron officer in the WRAF during the second world war and became a medical doctor. Iris Cummins was an engineer. Two of her brothers also became doctors, and one, N. Marshall Cummins, was involved in setting up the first blood transfusion service in Cork. Education Hearn began to study medicine in UCC, however she left in 1911 to get married. With the encouragement of her husband, she returned to UCC, and graduated with an MB, B.Ch., BAO in 1919 with first-class honours and a distinction in medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Membership Of The Royal Colleges Of Physicians Of The United Kingdom
Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP(UK)) is a postgraduate medical diploma in the United Kingdom (UK). The examinations are run by the Federation of the Medical Royal Colleges – the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The three Royal Colleges of Physicians share this common three part assessment in general medicine which consists of two written parts and one clinical examination. Examinations are held throughout the UK and in overseas centres. Holders of the MRCP(UK) can subscribe as "collegiate members" to any or all of the three UK Royal Colleges of Physicians. Thus the MRCP(UK) qualification has replaced the former MRCP(Lon), MRCP(E), and MRCP(G) qualifications. (Similarly, the MRCS is also now intercollegiate.) There is a separate MRCPI qualification, run by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, based in Dublin in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Membership Of The Royal College Of Physicians Of Ireland
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (MRCPI) is a postgraduate medical qualification in the field of general internal medicine awarded by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) through examination. The MRCPI in general internal medicine is accredited by the Irish Medical Council as the foremost knowledge-based assessment for internal medicine in Ireland. In addition, many countries worldwide recognize the qualification as a postgraduate degree in internal medicine and designate its holder as a specialist physician. The 3 parts of the MRCPI examinations are held throughout the Republic of Ireland and its overseas centers (Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman). The MRCPI in general internal medicine is the flagship qualification and examination of the RCPI and should be differentiated from its other postgraduate qualifications awarded through examinations in other specialities (e.g., MRCPI in pediatrics or MRCPI in obstetrics an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Ava (1855)
The SS ''Ava'' was a 1,613 GRT British steamship, constructed in 1855 by the Tod & McGregor shipyard in Glasgow. Described as "an iron screw barque with one funnel", she was operated by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company on the China mail service and was named after Ava, the ancient capital of Burma. She ran aground and was wrecked off the coast of Ceylon in February 1858. Sailing history Delivered on 21 July 1855, she departed for her maiden voyage to Alexandria on 29 August. On this voyage, she broke a screw blade and was towed to Malta by the paddle packet HMS ''Medusa''; the mail and passengers were forwarded on to Alexandria on board the ''Valetta''. In September 1856, she collided with the Teignmouth brig ''Blanche'' and lost a quarter boat. On 1 October 1856, she departed, via Tristan da Cunha and Galle, for Calcutta where she arrived on 16 December. On 3 September 1857, she left Calcutta carrying Lord Elgin on his mission to China. She returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Little (physician)
James Little (21 January 1837 – 23 December 1916) was an Irish medical practitioner. After spending an early part of his career as a ship's surgeon, surviving a shipwreck, he became chief physician at the Adelaide Hospital (Dublin), Adelaide Hospital in Dublin and Regius Professor of Physic (Dublin), Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College Dublin. Early life Little was born in Newry, the son of Archibald Little and his wife Mary, daughter of Richard Coulter. He was educated first at The Academy, Cookstown, County Tyrone and afterwards at The Royal School, Armagh. On leaving school, he became apprenticed to John Cohan, physician to the Armagh Fever Hospital and was also a pupil of Alexander Robinson, surgeon to the Armagh County Infirmary. In his diary, now held in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), he records the decision to enter the medical profession:1853 – for some years past my attention has been directed to the medical profession � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Corrigan
Sir Dominic John Corrigan, 1st Baronet (2 December 1802 – 1 February 1880), was an Irish physician, known for his original observations in heart disease. The abnormal "collapsing" pulse of aortic insufficiency, aortic valve insufficiency is named Corrigan's pulse after him. Birth and education Corrigan was born in Thomas Street (Dublin), Thomas Street, Dublin, the son of a dealer in agricultural tools. He was educated in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, which then had a department for secular students apart from the ecclesiastical seminary. He was attracted to the study of medicine by the physician in attendance, and spent several years as an apprentice to the local doctor, Edward Talbot O'Kelly. Corrigan studied medicine in Dublin later transferring to Edinburgh Medical School where he received his degree as MD in August 1825. Career Corrigan returned to Dublin in 1825 and set up a private practice at 11 Ormond Street, as his practice grew he moved to 12 Bachelors Walk in 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stokes (physician)
William Stokes (1 October 1804 – 10 January 1878) was an Irish physician, who was Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College Dublin. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with an MD in 1825 later returning the practice in Dublin at Meath Hospital. He went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases – ''A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest'' (1837) and ''The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta'' (1854) – as well as one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope. He emphasised the importance of clinical examination in forming diagnoses, and of ward-based learning for students of medicine. Both Cheyne–Stokes breathing (the alternation of apnoea with tachypnoea) and Stokes–Adams syndrome are named after him. ''Stokes' sign'' is a severe throbbing in the abdomen, at the right of the umbilicus, in acute enteritis. ''Stokes law'' is that a muscle situated above an inflamed membra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert James Graves
Robert James Graves (27 March 1796 – 20 March 1853) was an Anglo-Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the co-founder of the ''Dublin Journal of Medical Science''. He is also claimed to be the uncredited inventor of the second-hand on watches. Early life The eighth child of the Dean of Ardagh, Richard Graves, and Elizabeth Mary Drought (1767–1827), daughter of Rev. James Drought (1738–1820) D.D., of Dublin and Park, "a member of one of the principal families of the King's County (Offaly)," whose mother was the sister of Theaker Wilder. Wilder, Robert's father and maternal grandfather were all Senior Fellows of Trinity College Dublin, where in 1811 he was entered under his elder brother-in-law, Thomas Meredith, after receiving his early schooling in Downpatrick and Dublin. After a brilliant undergraduate career in the arts, he received a degree in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Marsh, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Marsh, 1st Baronet (1790 – 1 December 1860) was an Irish physician and surgeon. He was born in Loughrea, County Galway in Ireland. He was one of the medical doctors associated with Basedow's syndrome, which is also known as Marsh's disease and currently as Graves' disease.Sir Henry Marsh WhoNamedIt.com. Biography The son of the Rev. Robert Marsh of Killinane, , great-grandson of the Most Rev. , |
