RCSI School of Medicine Conferring Ceremony 2018

283 future doctors from 29 different countries around the world graduated from the RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) School of Medicine on Friday, 25 May 2018.

Medical degrees were presented to graduands at the annual conferring ceremony which takes place in The Convention Centre Dublin (CCD).

RCSI’s School of Medicin Conferring Ceremony sees the largest number of doctors in Ireland graduate each year and today’s event is a celebration for students and their families, some of whom have travelled from all over the world to attend the ceremony.

An RCSI Honorary Doctorate Degree was awarded to RCSI alumna Professor Barbara Murphy (Medicine, Class of 1989), a world-renowned transplant nephrologist and immunology researcher whose work focuses on the use of genomics and genetics to predict and diagnose outcomes following kidney transplantation. Prof. Murphy addressed the School of Medicine graduating Class of 2018 as part of the ceremony.

Prof. Murphy is the Chair of the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, the Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, and the Dean of Clinical Integration and Population Management at the Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System. When she was named chair of the Samuel F. Bronfman Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2012, she became the first female chair of medicine of an academic medical centre in New York and the second female chair of a top 20 medical school in the U.S.

The 283 candidates graduating were conferred with Honours Degrees of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Obstetrics MB, BCh, BAO (NUI, RCSI), LRCP & SI.

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