text: News and events Latest Publications:
  GP trainers meeting - October 2012
  AUDGPI PRIZEWINNER
  Siobhán Masterson, on behalf of the OCHAR Steering Group, recently won the
  James McCormick Research Medal
  at the recent AUDGPI annual meeting in Dublin. The oral presentation was entitled: GP involvement in pre-hospital resuscitation - what can the National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Register tell us?
  DR AKKE VELLINGA' GRADUATION
  Akke Vellinga graduated in November with a PhD in Medicine (Epidemiology) supervised by Prof Andrew Murphy and Prof Martin Cormican (Bacteriology). Her thesis was titled "Antibiotic prescribing and bacteriuria caused by trimethoprim and quinolone resistant bacteria in the community: a multilevel study with prospective patient and retrospective practice data". Guideline for communication in cross cultural general practice consultations
  Ms. Mary O'Reilly-de Brún, Senior Researcher in the Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine, NUI Galway worked with project lead Anne MacFarlane, Professor of Primary Healthcare Research, University of Limerick and colleagues in the Health Service Executive National Social Inclusion Unit and the Centre for Participatory Strategies, Galway to produce a
  guideline to support communication in general practice consultations with migrants who have limited English language skills. A key finding from this extensive, participatory research process is that the recommended best practice is to use a trained, accredited interpreter (rather than a family member of friend as an interpreter) or to consult with a general practitioner who has fluency in the language of the service user.
  Sample Reception Notices for Patients regarding Medical Students
  €3M TO LEAD EU FUNDED PROJECT
  Dr. Anne MacFarlane, lecturer in Primary Care in the Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine, NUI Galway, has been awarded an EU-FP7 grant worth € 3 million to lead a large collaborative research project known as RESTORE (REsearch into implementation STrategies to support patients of different ORigins and language background in a variety of European primary care settings). RESTORE is being funded under the EU-FP7 Health -2010 Theme
  Dr. Anne MacFarlane with, Senior Researchers Ms. Mary O'Reilly-de Brún and Mr. Tomas de Brún and project administrator Ms. Breda Kelleher, General Practice, NUI Galway.
  AUDGPI / ADEGS PRIZE WINNER
  Dr Anne MacFarlane won the
  James McCormack Research Medal
  at the combined Association of University Departments of General Practice Ireland (AUDGPI) / Scottish Academic Primary Care (ADEGS) conference in Dublin, 20-21 January 2011 for her presentation �Are family and friends acceptable as interpreters in cross-cultural general practice consultations? An analysis using participatory learning and action research methods.� Pictured accepting the prize on behalf of Anne is Professor Peter Cantillon (right), Head of General Practice from Professor Andrew Murphy, AUDGPI committee.
  SAPC-Norwich 2010Hans-Olaf Pieper, Mary O'Reilly-de Brún and Anne MacFarlane travelled to the Society of Academic Primary Care Annual Scientific Meeting ( Norwich July 9-11th ) with Katya Okonkwo, Service User Peer Researcher in the on-going HRB Partnership Award
  about involving migrant service users in the development of guidelines to support communication in cross-cultural general practice consultations, to give oral presentations based on the Discipline's research on migrant health (education and service development issues). Mary, Anne and Katya were photographed by Hans enjoying the social programme!
  General Practice Annual Day Out: 15th June 2010
  Members of General Practice had our annual day out at Mam Ean (The Pass of the Birds) where we visited Leaba Padraic...
  Dr Niamh Gallagher's Graduation
  Niamh Gallagher graduated on 17th June 2010 with a PhD in Primary Care, supervised by Andrew Murphy and Anne MacFarlane. Her thesis was on Continuity of Care and titled "Patients' perspectives of continuity of care in an out of hours general practice co-operative"
  Robert Scully introduces a perspective article on reductionism in healthcare (co-authored with Liam Glynn) from the May issue of IJCP (for paper click on image to your right).
  Communication in Cross-Cultural General Practice Consultations: Involving Ethnic Minority Service Users
  The Discipline of General Practice ran a very successful fieldwork day with ethnic minority service users at NUI Galway on 17th April 2010.
  The aim of this day was to give ethnic minority service users the opportunity to 'voice' their experiences and opinions about communication in cross-cultural general practice consultations. Forty one participants from Polish speaking, Russian speaking, Portuguese speaking, French Congolese speaking and Nigerian communities generated data with representatives from their own communities (peer researchers) who had been trained to use participatory learning and action research methods. Research findings will be used to develop guidelines for communication in cross-cultural general practice consultations This research is funded by a HRB Partnership Award involving the Discipline of General Practice and the Centre for Participatory Strategies
  Dr Teresa Maguire, Head of Research Management Unit, Health Research Board gave a presentation titled "Current activities and perspectives from the Health Research Board" in the Small Lecture Theatre, Clinical Science Institute on
  Tuesday 9th March INMEDThe Discipline of General Practice collaborated with other disciplines in the School of Medicine to run a very successful Irish Network of Medical Educators conference at NUI Galway on 18th & 19th February. The conference attracted more delegates than ever before (140) and introduced several innovations in conference design. A
  copy of the programme and abstract book
  2007/2009 Biennual Report
  Irish Journal of Medical Science Research Awards 2009: For the third year in a row, the Irish Journal of Medical Science has awarded Best General Practice Paper 2009 Award to NUI Galway. Pictured receiving the award from Gerry O'Connor of Krebensis, Sponsor of General Practice Research Award, was Andrew Murphy, Professor of General Practice at NUI Galway.
  Lunch time seminar on this topic presented by Dr Deirbhile Keady, Medical Microbiology, UCH Galway and Ms Akke Vellinga, Discipline of General Practice, NUI Galway
  Secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial of tailored practice and patient care plans
  This study clearly shows that providing additional care in general practice to patients with established heart disease is very worthwhile. It is the first study to definitively show that such programmes reduce both total and cardiovascular related hospital admissions. This is of crucial importance today where hospitals are under such pressure regarding what patients to admit. It also represents the largest non-pharmaceutical study ever performed on the island of Ireland.
  Unfortunately, only 20% of Irish patients have access to such care through a HSE funded programme called 'Heartwatch'. It was established as a pilot in 2003 for 20% of practices and the intention was to extend, after evaluation and revision, nationwide. A decision on whether or not to extend has still not been taken.