AIPEC

UCD Student Team are Runner-up in AIPEC 2024

University College Dublin (UCD) took part in the All-Ireland Interprofessional Healthcare Challenge (AIPEC) held on Friday 8^th March at Queen’s University Belfast. The UCD team included students from the UCD School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science who responded to a call from UCD Health Affairs, led by Professor Tim Lynch. The UCD team was supported by academic staff: Assoc Prof Cliona O’Sullivan (UCD SPHPSS), Assistant Prof Lisa Rogers (UCD SNMHS), Assoc Prof Brona Fullen (UCD SPHPSS) and Assistant Prof Rachel Howe (UCD SNMHS). 

The AIPEC challenge is coordinated in UCD by UCD Health Affairs, and it is an intervarsity competition for students from health disciplines to engage collaboratively and with healthcare professionals to address a complex care issue. This year’s case study focused on a Cystic Fibrosis patient and competing teams presented from University College Cork, University of Limerick, NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Queens University Belfast (QUB), Ulster University Coleraine and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

Competition was strong and despite all the team meetings and hours of preparation UCD was pipped to the post by the host team at Queen’s University Belfast. Congratulations to the UCD team for coming runner-up!

We would like to thank all our colleagues at UCD who provided support over the last few weeks and the Cystic Fibrosis specialists at SVUH.

UCD Student Team AIPEC 2023:

• Orla Mulloy - Physiotherapy
• Jessica Barbulescu - Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics
• Kingsley Roland-Onuoha - Biomedical Health & Life Sciences
• Alrataj Alqallaf - Medicine
• Alexa Mitroi - Medicine 

UCD Student Team Wins AIPEC 2023!

University College Dublin (UCD) took part in the All-Ireland Interprofessional Healthcare Challenge (AIPEC) held on Friday 24^thMarch in NUI Galway. The AIPEC challenge is coordinated in UCD by Health Affairs and it is an intervarsity competition for students from health disciplines to engage collaboratively and with healthcare professionals to address a complex care issue. In 2023 UCD joined the competition for the second time and faced teams from University College Cork, University of Limerick, NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Queens University Belfast (QUB), Ulster University Coleraine and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

Students from the UCD School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, School of Social Policy and Social Work and Social Justice responded to a call from UCD Health Affairs, led by Professor Tim Lynch, and a team of seven students were selected. The UCD team were supported by academic staff: Assoc Prof Cliona O’Sullivan from the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science and Dr Brynne Gilmore from UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. 

The UCD Student Team put in hours of work over the past weeks as was evident in the quality, depth, and breadth of their performance and their responses to the judge’s questions. They reached out to and met with many colleagues in UCD, and outside of UCD who shared their perspectives over the last number of weeks.

The standard of entries from all universities in the competition was very competitive but the interdisciplinary UCD student team was outstanding, and it was lovely to see their collegiality shine through.

UCD Student Team AIPEC 2023:

• Ava Gibli- Radiography Stage 4, School of Medicine
• Manoj Narava- Medicine (Graduate Entry) Stage 3, School of Medicine
• Aditi Chaturvedi- Medicine Stage 5, School of Medicine
• Naomi McDonnell- MSc. Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Public Health Stage 1, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
• Clodagh Mcintyre- Physiotherapy Stage 4, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
• Noel Portley- Social Work School of Social Policy Stage 1, Social Work and social Justice
• Meghan Jennings- Nursing Stage 3, School of Nursing

Huge congratulations to the UCD team on their achievement!

Thanks to all UCD Faculty from the College of Health and Agricultural Science who connected and supported the team and to Kasia Gaughan and Suzanne McMahon from UCD Health Affairs for their support.

We look forward to next year when AIPEC will be hosted by Queens University Belfast in March 2024.

All Ireland Interprofessional Healthcare Challenge

By (opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)Dr Kate Frazer(UCD AIPEC Coordinator, Associate Professor UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems)

University College Dublin (UCD) took part in the All-Ireland Interprofessional Healthcare Challenge (AIPEC) held on Wednesday 23^rdMarch. In 2022 UCD joined the competition for the first time and faced teams from University College Cork, University of Limerick, NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Queens University Belfast (QUB), and Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

Students from UCD School of Medicine and (opens in a new window)UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems responded to a call from UCD Health Affairs, led by(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)Professor Tim Lynch, and a team of six students were selected. The UCD team connected with Healthcare Professionals from (opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)Ireland East Hospital Grouphospitals and (opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)National Rehabilitation University Hospitalto gather key information to support their person-centred interdisciplinary management plan.

The standard of entries from all universities in the competition was extremely high, and the QUB team was triumphant.  The UCD team received excellent feedback from the judges for their holistic plan of care and their considered and knowledgeable answer in the question round.

We thank the UCD team for their engagement, collaboration, and spirit.

Thanks to all UCD Faculty from the College of Health and Agricultural Science who connected and supported the team, especially (opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)Professor Áine CarrollProfessor of Healthcare Integration and Improvement, School of Medicine, and to(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)Joe Houghton, UCD Innovation Fellow, UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.