Your learning
32 lessons in four stages, arranged by when you’ll need them, with two practice shifts along the way.
Toolkit: checklists & templatesPaid programmeKeep these to hand for arrival, induction, rounds, on-call and handover.
Checklists· Tick as you go
Templates· Print or download
All 32 lessons
Four stages, from before you arrive to your career.
CompletedFreeOpen to everyonePaid programmeFull programme
- Welcome to IrelandPaid programme
- Everyday culture, rapport and workplace languagePaid programme
- Moving practicalities: registration, permission to work, PPSN and payPaid programme
- Your first-week practical checklistPaid programme
- How Irish healthcare is organised, and what matters on the wardPaid programme
- Who's who: the medical hierarchy and NCHD postsFree
- The multidisciplinary team: who does what, and how to ask wellPaid programme
- When English isn't enough: interpreters and informed conversationsPaid programme
- How people actually communicate on an Irish wardPaid programme
- Professional duties: confidentiality, consent, records and raising concernsPaid programme
- Preparing before day onePaid programme
- Induction: systems, access and emergency processesPaid programme
- Medication charts, prescribing systems and pharmacy: your local orientationPaid programme
- Arriving, meeting staff and finding your wayPaid programme
- The ward round: turn a fast conversation into a safe planPaid programme
- Practice shift · Your first day on the wardPlay
- Progress notes a colleague can act on at 3amPaid programme
- Phone referrals: a poor call, a prepared call and what to pin downPaid programme
- Pending results: who checks, who acts, who follows up?Paid programme
- Discharge: coordinating the plan, writing for the GP and saying 'not yet'Paid programme
- Finishing the shift without dropping the threadPaid programme
- Before the shift: the bleep and taking handoverPaid programme
- When the bleep won't stop: take requests without losing controlPaid programme
- Working with night nurses: the call, the context and the plan you sharePaid programme
- Escalating: the first sentence, the ask and what to do if it doesn't landPaid programme
- Practice shift · Your first on-call shiftPlayPaid programme
- When the list outgrows you: telling your senior early and specificallyPaid programme
- Finishing a night: what can't wait, getting home and the day afterPaid programme
- Reading a job offer: training and non-training posts, contracts and what to askPaid programme
- Specialist training in Ireland: eligibility, selection and a realistic planPaid programme
- An Irish-style medical CV: structure, specific entries and honest evidencePaid programme
- Building a portfolio: audit, QI, teaching and research, and the permissions each needsPaid programme
- Planning a first audit or QI project and closing the loopPaid programme
- Your first 90 days: a development planPaid programme
Two practice shifts
Illustrated, interactive shifts to try between lessons. They also appear inside stages 2 and 3.