About Mater Postgraduate Centre
Our goal is to empower and encourage our NCHDs in all aspects of their training with us in the Mater Hospital, creating an equal opportunity space and a new standard of quality and safety in patient care through our ongoing commitment to education, research and innovation.
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The Mater Hospital
The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital is a level 4 teaching hospital based in Dublin's north inner city. The hospital was opened in 1861 by the Sisters of Mercy. In addition to the local services for our catchment area, the Mater Hospital provides a range of frontline and specialist services on a regional and national level.
For more information and a timeline of the Mater Hospitals' medical achievements visit our History of The Mater page
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The Postgraduate Medical Centre, located within the Catherine McAuley Centre, provides high quality, dynamic and innovative education programmes for consultants, NCHD’s and the North Dublin Faculty of the Irish College of General Practitioners. The centre strives to exemplify the Mater Hospital's commitment to outstanding training for medical professionals.
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The centre plays a key role in providing for the training needs of NCHD’s and facilitates the professional development of consultants within the hospital and beyond by developing a programme of continuing medical education relevant to medical staff in the Mater Hospital including in house multidisciplinary meetings and with regular teaching sessions designed for Interns and SHOs as well as providing education sessions to members of the North Dublin ICGP.