The Institute of Medicine is pleased to continue Hot Topics for Acute Physicians which will present a monthly webinar discussing topics relevant to the acute physician in specialties across the spectrum of medicine.
Hot Topics for Acute Physicians: Dermatology is the 10th webinar in the series.
This live webinar is available to Members and Fellows of RCPI, doctors on RCPI training programmes, doctors on RCPI Professional Competence Schemes, all other interested physicians working in medicine, or indeed outside of medicine.
Dr Bairbre Wynne is a Consultant Dermatologist in St James's Hospital (SJH), Clinical Lead for the Department of Dermatology in SJH and Group Lead for Dermatology in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group. She has a special interest in lupus and for the past 10 years has run a multidisciplinary clinic with colleagues in rheumatology and nephrology for patients with complex SLE disease.
Dr Michael O'Connell is Consultant Dermatologist at University Hospital Waterford. Having studied at Leeds University School of Medicine, he qualified in 2002 and after completing house officer training, he completed his general medical training at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. He continued his training in a one-year combined Dermatology, Infectious Disease and Genito-urinary medicine post at University College London Hospital, returning to Leeds and the Yorkshire Deanery to complete his specialist Dermatology training. On completion, Dr O'Connell moved to the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital Cork to take up a locum consultant appointment in 2010 and a permanent position in 2011. He moved to University Hospital Waterford in 2016.
Can't attend? Recordings will be available to watch online afterwards
There are limited places available for the live webinar. If you are unable to book a place, you will be able to watch videos of all of the talks on Panopto, our video sharing platform.
To get access to our full digital library of lectures on Panopto, simply click here
A link to these online recordings has been shared with all postgraduate medical training bodies in Ireland.
First, you must book your place at the webinar on this web page. On the day, you must sign into our virtual learning environment RCPI Brightspace.
On the day of the event, the steps are:
Note, the webinar will only become available to watch at 5pm on the day, but we recommend logging in ten minutes ahead of time.
To join this webinar on Zoom you will need a computer (Windows or Apple) or mobile device with internet access and speakers.
If you're joining the webinar on a computer you can use the Zoom desktop website. You do not need to download the Zoom app - if you see a pop up message about the app, you can dismiss this.
The Zoom website functions best on Google Chrome.
When you click on the link for "Join the Live Webinar" you will see a message asking you to open Zoom. Click on “Open Zoom”.
You will then be asked for your name and email address. Once you’ve entered these details, click on “Join Webinar”.
If you're watching the webinar on a mobile device you will need to download the Zoom app. To save time on the day, we recommend downloading the app in advance:
Click here for the iOS Zoom app
Click here for the Android Zoom app
When you open the Zoom app click on “Join a Meeting”. You will need to enter the meeting ID number. The ID number for this week's event will be sent to you via email beforehand.
You can find additional help with joining Zoom webinars here
If you have any questions for our panel please email them to RCPICourses@rcpi.ie and we will endeavour to have these answered as part of the event. Alternatively, you can submit questions via Twitter @RCPI_news.
We are now using Zoom to broadcast our live webinars. When you open Zoom to watch the live webinar you will be able to submit questions to the panel during the event.
To submit questions to the panel:
It may not be possible to answer all questions we receive.
