This one-hour module strengthens communication skills for healthcare professionals, focusing on empathy, clarity, and responsiveness. Learners will explore best practices in patient engagement, clinical history taking, and feedback application. The course equips participants with practical tools to enhance communication in clinical settings.

Understanding our role as global citizens while working as clinicians in our local environment is becoming increasingly important. We have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that illness does not respect borders. Increasing our awareness of our global working environment will improve our own clinical performance and our patients’ outcomes. The Forum of Postgraduate Training Bodies has completed the process of developing a competency framework, outlining 5 core competencies in which all medical practitioners in Ireland should be knowledgeable. This will improve the ability of the medical workforce in Ireland to fully participate in the global health system.

Welcome to the Allergy Paediatric Pocket Tutorials Course We are very grateful to the Allergy Pocket Tutorials team for creating this content for your learning and development, particularly to course clinical lead, John Fitzsimons.