The Institute of Medicine is pleased to continue Hot Topics for Acute Physicians which is a monthly webinar series discussing topics relevant to the acute physician in specialties across the spectrum of medicine.
This webinar will focus on Hot Topics in Intensive Care Medicine and is a must-attend event for anyone working or interested in the area of Intensive Care Medicine. During the webinar, you will hear from expert speakers who will put a spotlight on the hottest and most relevant topics.
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.
This event is a benefit of your Membership and Fellowship and is FREE for RCPI Trainees, Members and Fellows who are in good standing. There is a €50.00 fee for all other attendees.
Book your place at this session using the booking links at the bottom of this page.
Enda is a consultant intensivist and ICU Clinical Lead in St James’s Hospital, a senior lecturer in Trinity College Dublin and the Chair of Training with the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Ireland. Research interests focus mainly on medical education in the intensive care and anaesthesia settings. When not working in medicine, Enda is frequently to be found recording and playing music with the originals band Serial Sevens and the covers band The Metabollix.
Dr Bates graduated from NUIG in 1993 and completed internship and 2 years of internal medicine training in Galway before going on to complete Anaesthesiology training in Ireland (CST in 2002). He then spent a further three years training in Intensive Care medicine in Australia (The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne) before returning to take up a position as Consultant Intensivist/Anaesthetist at University Hospital Galway. He was Director of ICU at UHG from 2003 to 2007 and Dean of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Ireland from 2018-2021. He is Clinical lead for critical care medicine for the Saolta Hospital Group and personal professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine at NUIG.
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 conferences@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.
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.
