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STRATEGIC PLAN 2015 - 2020
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ABOUT US
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) is dedicated
to ensuring that doctors have the skills to provide paients
with the best care possible.
We appreciate the trust bestowed on doctors Our 10,000 Fellows, Members, Liceniates and
and strive to ensure that people in Ireland Trainees work across 26 medical specialies
and across the globe can coninue to expect in 84 countries. This network provides the
world-class care. knowledge, experise and commitment that
allows us to train and educate doctors and
We have delivered teaching and training to drive constant improvements in paient care.
doctors since 1654. We are commited to
working with doctors to enhance their skills, “We inluence change:
competencies and professionalism. This will
enable them to coninue playing a leadership
we help make healthcare
role in the future of healthcare. safer and beter”
Education and training are life-long We strive for excellence in every facet of
commitments: medicine is constantly changing our organisaion. We ofer comprehensive
and it is vital that physicians stay up-to-date programmes to develop skills, knowledge
with the latest research and techniques to and experise. These levels of support in
opimise paient health. We are recognised by professional development are maintained
the Government for our experise on maters throughout a doctor’s career.
of public health, paient care and wellbeing,
and healthcare innovaion. We facilitate the collaboraion of medical
experise naionally and internaionally. We
We house six of the 13 accredited have developed close working relaionships
postgraduate medical training bodies in with healthcare leaders to develop policy
Ireland. (see opposite) iniiaives designed to improve best pracice
for the beneit of paients worldwide. We
Although we have six separate training bodies inluence change: we help make healthcare
on site, we operate as a single organisaion. safer and beter.
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PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has a long tradiion of
providing leadership in healthcare and of displaying excellence
through our work. Today we are all working together to build
a world-class college.
This Strategic Plan 2015-2020 consitutes professional healthcare colleagues. And We are at the forefront in developing We will coninue to support our Trainees,
an important vision statement for RCPI. we care about their wellbeing. We are innovaive soluions, such as the naional Members and Fellows and healthcare
As College President, I intend to make its developing and promoing programmes clinical programmes that are improving the professionals to achieve excellence in
implementaion my major focus. It will ensure around the principles of physician wellbeing quality, access to, and cost eiciency of delivering healthcare for all. We are commited
that we coninue to train doctors to the and self-care. delivering healthcare in the 21st Century. to building on our success and maintaining a
highest standards to cope with the health We are strong advocates for clinicians to standard of excellence in all of our aciviies.
issues facing populaions for at least the next We have earned a reputaion for training be at the centre of, and leading changes in
10 years. doctors to the highest international health services. Professor Frank Murray
standards. We are building on our success by President
“We are commited to developing internaional medical educaion “We will coninue to Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
and training programmes for doctors who
enhancing our educaion wish to complete part of their training in the
support our Trainees,
programmes by expanding Irish healthcare system. At the same ime, Members and Fellows
the range of experise and we are deploying our experise to develop and healthcare
global health policies that will also beneit
professional development developing countries. professionals to achieve
opions for doctors excellence in delivering
and their professional Embracing new technologies will enable us
healthcare for all.”
to deliver many of our strategic objecives.
healthcare colleagues.” We are in the process of developing a digital
global knowledge sharing plaform, which will The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland is a
Medical techniques change constantly but fundamentally change how we learn and well-respected voice in public health debates.
our ethos remains the same: to support collaborate. This plaform will enable doctors Our Members and Fellows lead iniiaives
physicians in developing and maintaining the from across the globe to share their experise and discussions that inluence government
best professional standards for the beneit and collaborate for the beneit of paients. policies, paricularly in the areas of alcohol,
of paients. obesity, tobacco and ageing. Through our
We are improving how we deliver our policy work, the College will coninue to
We are committed to enhancing our examinations and giving doctors from inform and inluence government policy on
education programmes by expanding overseas greater access to our examinaions public health and to be a passionate advocate,
the range of experise and professional by introducing Computer-Based Tesing and without conlict of interest, for good health.
development opions for doctors and their new examinaion centres.
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OUR VISION
To lead excellence and
quality in medical pracice
through world-class training,
educaion and healthcare
improvements in Ireland
and internaionally
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OUR MISSION OUR VALUES
To train, educate and Honesty
coninuously develop We believe in transparency, integrity and respect
doctors for current and Trust
We provide a nurturing community commited to
future world health needs developing people to their full potenial
We are proud of our status as an independent Kindness
authority on specialist medicine and we will We act with openness, generosity and consideraion
coninue to advocate policies and pracices that
are in the best interests of paients and those
who care for them. Innovaion
We provide a simulaing and challenging environment
We use our medical experience and experise
to improve every aspect of healthcare by:
that promotes excellence in teaching and learning
• Displaying leadership on healthcare
maters
Responsiveness
We use our experise to help inluence healthcare
• Developing clinical leaders policy in the best interests of paients
• Collaboraing with other key organisaions
to drive healthcare improvements Quality & Excellence
We strive for quality and excellence in everything we do
• Introducing and maintaining standards and
guidelines to support best medical pracice
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OUR STRATEGIC
AIMS 2015 – 2020
Over the next ive years, we will focus on delivering
our ive strategic aims
1 Deliver World-Class
Specialist Training Page 12
2 Enhance Life-Long Learning
and Professional Development Page 14
3 Promote Leadership in
Improving Paient Care Page 16
4 Be a Trusted, Authoritaive
Voice on Public Health Policy Page 18
5 Build our
Global Presence Page 20
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STRATEGIC AIM 1
DELIVER
WORLD-CLASS
SPECIALIST TRAINING What we do
• Our Trainees have access to a wide
range of educaional programmes in
Paients must be conident that their doctors have the areas such as ethics, communicaion From now through 2020 we will:
experise to deliver excellent care despite the challenges of skills, breaking bad news and child
protecion, which are designed to • Coninue to evaluate the quality of our
working in a busy healthcare environment. complement their clinical training training programmes to ensure they are
producing specialists who can meet the
Our postgraduate medical training programmes of Membership of the Royal College of • We work closely with the Medical current and future needs of society
are designed to produce skilled, conident Physicians of Ireland or equivalent. Council, which regulates medical
doctors who can practice as specialist pracice in Ireland, and the Doctors’ • Increase our engagement with Trainees
consultants in one of 26 disciplines; from Our Trainee doctors complete at least six Training and Planning unit in the to ensure their feedback informs the
Paediatrics to Medicine for the Older Person. years’ intensive ‘on-the-job’ training under HSE to ensure all the components future development of our programmes
the supervision of dedicated consultants of medical training meet our high
At any one ime, more than 1,200 doctors are who appreciate the importance of training expectaions – from a well-stocked • Invest in research into best pracice
enrolled in our postgraduate medical training the next generaion of specialists. medical library to a comfortable place in postgraduate medical training
programmes in hospitals across Ireland. to sleep while on call
Our Basic Specialist Training Programme During their training with us, doctors must • Invest in the latest technology to
is developed for medical school graduates complete professional examinaions and • We have built up an enviable global develop new ways to learn and
who have already completed a one-year undertake medical research to demonstrate a reputaion for excellence in general collaborate
internship in a hospital. Our Higher Specialist mastery of the advanced skills and knowledge medical training, which is the basis for
Training Programme is for doctors who have required to pracice as a specialist and leader many medical sub-specialies • Create innovaive educaional
completed Basic Specialist Training and of a clinical team. programmes to develop essenial clinical
have atained a postgraduate qualiicaion and non-clinical skills
• Develop an accreditaion programme to
‘The College is well posiioned to capitalise on its strong provide hospitals with clear standards
foundaion to lead internaionally in postgraduate for on-site medical training
medical training and to meet the rapidly changing • Ensure Trainees are appropriately
needs of the Irish populaion for the future’ supported and mentored
Professor Kevin Imrie,
President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
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STRATEGIC AIM 2 What we do:
• Our masterclass series, which is
delivered by leading naional and
ENHANCE internaional experts, has widened
its scope to include non-clinical
LIFE-LONG LEARNING innovaions in healthcare such as
paient safety, infecion control and
AND PROFESSIONAL the use of apps, technology and
social media
DEVELOPMENT • Each year we examine more than
2,000 doctors
From now through 2020 we will:
The science of medicine is constantly We provide a wide range of postgraduate • We run dedicated programmes to
changing, which means that doctors require examinaions and educaional programmes to help doctors and others in the health • Coninue to develop an extensive
support in keeping up-to-date with new help doctors develop their skills and experise service prepare for leadership roles. programme of innovaive professional
research, therapies, technologies and best throughout their careers. Most of our courses Our Diploma in Leadership and Quality development courses, educaional
pracice guidelines. are delivered in our state-of-the-art educaion in Healthcare is an example of such as events, workshops and conferences
centre in Dublin and our examinaions take programme, which we run jointly with covering a wide range of clinical and
“Doctors must consistently place in Ireland, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Health Service Execuive non-clinical topics
India, Malaysia and Australia.
update their knowledge • We have developed a new suite of • Evaluate our examinaions and
and understanding of Our examinaions are recognised internaionally courses focused on paient safety and educaional programmes to ensure
their chosen specialty by employers as a standard of excellence and the science of quality improvement they meet current and future needs
create opportuniies for career advancement.
to ensure the delivery
of doctors
Doctors rightly consider Membership of the • We ofer a number of one-year
of world-class care” RCPI (MRCPI), which is achieved following diplomas in specialies such • Coninue to invest in the support of
successful compleion of our examinaions, as as Cerebrovascular & Stroke Medicine, physician wellbeing
Educaion does not simply stop with the a career milestone. Core Pathology Management,
completion of formal medical training. Immunology and Leadership & Quality • Keep abreast of the latest educaional
Doctors must constantly update their in Healthcare and Paient Safety techniques and technological supports
knowledge and understanding of their chosen
specialty to ensure the delivery of world-class • We ofer a range of online learning • Collaborate with healthcare
care, and we play a signiicant role in fulilling courses – some of them standalone stakeholders to develop tailored
this crucial requirement. and others combining pracical group educaional programmes for the health
workshops service as a whole
• We provide a number of Physician
Wellbeing courses tailored speciically
to the needs of our members, including
a Ceriicate in Health and Meditaion
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STRATEGIC AIM 3
PROMOTE LEADERSHIP
IN PATIENT CARE What we do
• We produce clinical guidelines,
care pathways, models of care
We are at the forefront of driving healthcare reform in Ireland and algorithms for a wide range of
medical specialies, chronic illnesses
and across the world. and diseases From now through 2020 we will:
A wealth of international evidence delivered in Ireland through a mulidisciplinary • We develop performance indicators • Coninue working with other
demonstrates that health reforms are best approach. They are intended to improve and to assess quality and access to care organisaions to improve quality and
achieved when the policy proposals make standardise paient care. There are currently safety for paients
sense to doctors, who are on the frontline over 30 Naional Clinical Programmes, 22 of • We collaborate with the health
of providing treatment and care to paients. which have clinician leadership from RCPI. service on process improvement • Collaborate with leaders in healthcare
Doctors appreciate the difficulties of The mission of these programmes is to ‘deliver while maintaining or opimising on system design and innovaion with a
working in a busy healthcare environment beter care through beter use of resources.’ paient outcomes e.g. Irish Hospital view to improving access to care
and the opportuniies for making it safer and Redesign Programme
more eicient. We also manage three Specialty National • Improve awareness across the health
Quality Improvement Programmes in • We are working closely with services on the beneits of quality
We are working closely with the Health Histopathology, Gastrointesinal Endoscopy healthcare professionals and other improvement
Service Execuive in Ireland on a wide range and Radiology. The purpose of these stakeholders to reduce Orthopaedic
of iniiaives to empower doctors and other programmes is to establish a framework that and Rheumatology outpaient • Invest in cost-beneit analyses to
healthcare professionals to innovate and ensures paient safety and enhances paient waiing lists coninually assess the economic beneits
improve the quality and safety of paient care. care with imely, accurate and complete of our improvement programmes
diagnoses and reporing. They also provide • We are coninuing to work with the
The National Clinical Programmes are evidence-based assurance to the public of the health service to reduce hospital • Regularly review quality improvement
designed to transform the way healthcare is quality of Irish diagnosic services. stays for medical paients targets and coninue publishing naional
data reports, sharing best pracice and
• We publish naional reports improving standards overall
‘The College is a strong advocate for measures to presening an aggregated summary
improve public health and paient care and is constantly of specialty quality improvement
aciviies and outcomes, across the
reining its training programmes and courses to ensure public and private sectors, which is
we are giving our doctors and healthcare workers unique internaionally
the highest standard of training and experience to
efecively deal with the evolving needs of Irish society’
Former President RCPI, Professor John Crowe
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STRATEGIC AIM 4
BE A TRUSTED,
AUTHORITATIVE What we do
VOICE ON PUBLIC • Our Policy Group on Alcohol has
HEALTH POLICY played a key role in the campaign that
led to recent legislaive proposals to
curb harmful alcohol consumpion
in Ireland
We are a trusted voice on issues of public health policy. We • Our Policy Group on Obesity has
published a series of recommendaions
aim to build on our proud history of advocacy on healthcare designed to tackle the obesity From now through 2020 we will:
maters and paient care. epidemic through public policy
measures, such as prohibiing • Develop our health policy agenda
As an independent medical organisaion treaing paients to develop evidence-based television adverising of foods high in in the areas of alcohol, tobacco,
represening thousands of doctors, we recommendaions. Peer-reviewed scieniic fat, salt and sugar before 9pm obesity, exercise and ageing to inform
are commited campaigners for a healthier evidence underpins our every policy posiion. Government and the public of the
society. We have taken on well-funded vested • Building on the leadership role played medical posiion on these maters
interests to protect people from the harmful We have dedicated policy groups that focus by our organisaion to introduce a
efects of tobacco, obesity and alcohol. We on a range of issues, including the harms smoking ban in the workplace, our • Publish posiion papers and statements
provide doctors with a secure plaform from caused by alcohol, obesity and tobacco. We Policy Group on Tobacco is now on professional health maters with the
which to inluence naional health policies. have been at the forefront of campaigns campaigning to support the Tobacco aim of inluencing policy and behaviour
designed to tackle these problems and Free Ireland plan launched by the
We draw on our doctors’ medical experise provide doctors with a stronger voice to Minister for Health in 2013 • Vocalise the economic and paient
and unparalleled irst-hand experience of inluence change in government policy. beneits of RCPI programmes that have
signiicantly improved healthcare
• Coninue to provide the opinion of
doctors in response to health legislaion
‘By becoming involved in the Alcohol Policy Group I
have had the opportunity to contribute to public health • Engage with the media and other
public plaforms to ensure the public is
recommendaions to Government and have my voice heard informed about best pracice in health,
in ways that would have been impossible as an individual’ healthcare and wellbeing
Dr Stephen Stewart,
Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital20 21
STRATEGIC AIM 5
BUILD OUR
GLOBAL PRESENCE What we do
• Working with the Health Service
Execuive and other training bodies,
we have developed structured
Our worldwide membership gives us an enviable global reach. postgraduate training programmes
in Irish hospitals for doctors
We work with relevant agencies to create sustainable health from overseas
systems in their countries.
• We provide consultancy services From now through 2020 we will:
We have an international network of Our Chapters and 12 internaional exam on the development of postgraduate
close to 10,000 doctors: More than 30% centres – three in India, two in Malaysia, two medical training curricula and • Further develop our internaional
of our Members and Fellows currently in the United Arab Emirates, one in Oman, assessments as well as training medical educaion and training
pracice overseas. two in Saudi Arabia and two in Australia site accreditaion programmes for doctors who wish
– have helped us to develop and sustain to train in Ireland
relaionships with Members and Fellows • We have worked with other training
“The networks we have
in these places and to create a network for bodies and Medical Validaion Ireland • Collaborate with health systems and
built provide us with collaboraing with medical and government to develop and implement the organisaions overseas to improve
on-the-ground insights organisaions outside of Ireland. assessment process of the credenials educaion, training and health worldwide
of medical consultants in Qatar
into how healthcare works The networks we have built provide us with • Leverage our experise to develop global
in various countries” on-the-ground insights into how healthcare • Every year more than 2,000 doctors health policies and strategies to beneit
works in various countries, which in turn sit our examinaions worldwide everyone, regardless of where they live
We have four internaional Chapters: India, creates opportuniies for delivering educaion
Oman, China (Hong Kong) and the United and training locally. • We liaise with other Irish • Introduce Computer-Based Tesing and
Arab Emirates (Dubai). Our Chapters promote health organisaions to donate clinical examinaions in new centres
our aciviies in their regions and provide decommissioned medical equipment around the globe to give doctors greater
assistance and support for examinaions, from Irish hospitals to developing access to our examinaions
meeings, masterclasses and courses. countries under the EQUALS iniiaive
• Launch a new plaform to allow our
Trainees, Members and Fellows around
the globe to collaborate with each other
and to paricipate in online learning22 A TRULY GLOBAL ORGANISATION Where our Trainees, Members, Fellows and Liceniates live 1 Ireland 2 UK 3 Malaysia 4 Saudi Arabia 5 USA 6 Northern Ireland 7 India 8 Pakistan 9 Canada 10 Australia
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Frederick House,
19 South Frederick Street,
Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 863 9700
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