Members of the Trainee Committee pictured September 2009 :
Back Row - Dr Elena Kostromitina, Dr Akin Iyiola, Dr Deniz
Kutay, Dr Anita Ambikapathy, Dr Nicolas Ramperti, Dr Elizabeth
Barrett, Dr John Lyne, Dr Darran Flynn, Dr Femi Banjo
Front Row - Dr Foluso Ademola, Dr Helen Barry, Dr Izu Nwachukwu,
Dr Marguerite Mc Carthy, Dr Karen O Connor, Dr Shruthi
Guruswamy
April 2009
Dear Fellow Trainee
On behalf of the Trainee Committee,
I welcome you to this web page of the Trainee section of the
College of Psychiatry of Ireland. It is hoped that this site will
be a useful resource for sharing information with you on issues
that affect psychiatric training in Ireland.
The Trainee Committee is an elected
body that oversee the Trainee section of the College. Its
broad remit is to promote greater involvement of trainees in
College activities, and to contribute towards continued
improvements in the standards of postgraduate psychiatric
training in Ireland.
To achieve these objectives, our
committee members sit on the College Council and every Faculty
and Sub-Committee of the College, ensuring that the views of
trainees are heard at all levels of decision making &
policy implementation. We have also maintained our links with
the Trainee Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatry, UK, and
with the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) to
ensure that we keep abreast of international developments. The
Trainee Committee meets regularly (every 4 – 6 weeks) where
feedback from these committees and all other issues that impact on
our training are deliberated.
With the inception of our
new College, our immediate goal is to set foundations that cement
the place of trainees as key stakeholders in the College and ensure
that the training agenda remains at the forefront of the College
mission. Our focus for this year will therefore be on consolidating
the Trainee Committee by broadening its base of representation and
optimising exchange of information with trainees at regional and
local levels. It is to this end that we are currently reforming
this website as a primary means of information sharing. We
hope to improve on the content, make it more interactive and ensure
that it is regularly updated.
Highlights of our agenda for the
year include :
- Two trainee forums
where the committee will meet with trainee representatives
from each of the 12 Basic Training Schemes in the
country. The first of these will be on Thursday
30th April 2009. We hope to use this bi-annual forum to
reach out to ‘grassroots’ trainees in line with our immediate and
long-term objectives.
- An academic
conference for all trainees in psychiatry in Ireland will
take place in September 2009. This conference will be focused on
topics and issues that have direct relevance on the personal and
training development of trainees. Further information will be made
available on this website as progress is made.
Finally, we wish to
thank our inaugural president, Dr Justin Brophy for his commendable
leadership, and all officers and administrators of the College
for their invaluable support. Together, we will continue to work
towards ensuring that postgraduate psychiatric training in Ireland
remains comparable with the highest international
standards.
For further enquiries or information on the
Trainee Committee, please do not hesitate in contacting Liz
Kavanagh on behalf of the committee at ekavanagh@irishpsychiatry.ie
With kind regards
Dr Izu Nwachukwu
Chair, Trainee Committee
Next Meetings:
- Thursday 02 September 2010 AT
5PM
- Thursday 07 October 2010 AT
5PM