The School commits to a comprehensive programme of curriculum change in 2023/2024, the outcome of which will be the development and recommendation of a new curriculum (Medicine 2030) for each of our undergraduate entry and graduate entry Medicine programmes.
The new Medicine 2030 curriculum will launch in 2026/2027 academic session. Our actions will be deliberate and professionally managed and will be informed by the needs of a modern healthcare system in Ireland and overseas.
Our change programme will enhance our existing curriculum strengths, introduce educational innovation, and will ensure that our graduates are prepared for clinical practise in 2030 and beyond. This change programme will benchmark our programme against international best practice and will formalise the collection of ongoing performance data to inform future curricular change.
Over the past ten years, our Medicine curriculum has undergone continuous incremental change. This change programme will be more deliberative and transformational. The change programme will span three academic years such that a new medicine curriculum will be designed, developed and approved in Academic Years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025, introduced to current Stage 2 Medicine in September 2025 with the first cohort of students graduating in June 2030.
It is envisaged that a separate programme of evaluation will commence with the roll-out of the new curriculum in 2026/2027 such that data on stage & programme performance, and attainment of graduate attributes will be compared with data collected over the past five years.
Our partners in this journey will be our staff, students and alumni, our clinical colleagues in hospital and community medicine, and patient advocates. We are commencing a series of consultations of these stakeholder groups to inform Medicine 2030. We are delighted to welcome your input but you will appreciate given the size of this undertaking that we will be unable to meet individually and ask that you avail of the various consultation opportunities.
| Group |
Available Dates |
Book Attendance |
| Faculty |
Tuesday 9th January 2024 – AM |
By invitation only |
| Professional Staff |
Wednesday 10th January 2024 at 10 am |
By invitation only |
| Professional Staff |
Thursday 11th January 2024 from 2pm |
By invitation only |
| Current Students |
Thursday 25th January 2024 from 10am |
Link |
| Recent Graduates |
Thursday 25th January 2024 from 12:30pm |
Link |
| Clinical Tutors |
Thursday 25th January 2024 from 3:30pm |
Link |
| Adjunct Clinical Faculty |
Monday 29th January 2024 from 8am, 1pm and 3:30pm |
By invitation only |
| Adjunct Clinical Faculty |
Tuesday 30th January 2024 from 8am and from 1pm |
By invitation only |
| Adjunct Clinical Faculty |
Wednesday 31st January 2024 from 8am, 1pm and 3:30pm |
By invitation only |
| External Stakeholders |
To be confirmed |
By invitation only |