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NMH | 2024 213 Education N MH is a busy clinical unit with a strong and proud history as a teaching hospital for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in all disciplines: medical, midwifery, nursing, physiotherapy, social work, laboratory science, dietetics, and paramedics. As a teaching hospital for both University College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, nearly four hundred medical and midwifery students are trained here every year; these range from lectures, tutorials and introduction to clinical practice for Clinical One medical students, six-week placement in Clinical Two medicine, the eighteen- month Postgraduate Midwifery Programme and the four-year Bachelor of Midwifery degree students. There is ongoing training and support for students in the Masters in Ultrasound and Graduate Certificate in Professional Ultrasound. Dietetics, nutrition, and physiotherapy students are smaller in numbers in trainees, but no less welcome for their contribution and learning within the hospital environment. There are also multiple Masters and Doctorate students (MD/PhD) working on research projects within the hospital. Medical Education NCHD Training and Fellowships Most of the Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors (NCHDs) are registered for training either under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians (Pathology/ Paediatrics/Obstetrics and Gynaecology/ Microbiology), the College of Anaesthetists or the Irish College of General Practitioners. The NMH provides training to fulfill the criteria for basic and specialist training in the specialties of obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthesia, paediatrics and pathology. Our fellowship programmes in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Labour Ward Management, Maternal Medicine, Placenta Accreta Spectrum, Neonatology, Obstetric Anaesthesia and Advanced Medical Education continue to be popular choices for highly trained and motivated trainees. Dr Shahad Al Tikriti has joined as the NMH Advanced Medical Education Fellow from July 2023 and will be completing a MD in medical education. Dr Clare Kennedy joined as a UCD tutor and is one of two fellows in the pilot Irish Clinician Educator Training Programme in the RCPI. Dr Lorcan O'Carroll is an Anesthesiology SpR who is completing a MD programme on education in communication at emergency caesarean under the supervision of Dr Robert Ffrench O'Carrroll. Multidisciplinary Major Emergency Simulations We continue to regularly run two major simulations in the operating theatre, the first on vascular injury at laproscopic surgery and the second on the national postpartum haemorrhage/major obstetric haemorrhage guideline. Both include mock phone calls to colleagues in St Vincent's University Hospital and both are highly successful and stimulated extensive discussion within the multidisciplinary team including medical scientists. Multidisciplinary team training (mega drill simulation) occurs regularly focusing on major obstetric haemorrhage and unexpected intraoperative bleeding

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