Show Notes
Dara O’Keeffe is the Simulation Lead in Postgraduate Surgical Education and Training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She trained in surgery in Ireland for eight years before entering the field of medical education in 2006. At RCSI she designed and implemented national assessments in technical and non-technical skills, before moving to Boston in 2010. There she held the position of Assistant Director of Simulation-based Learning at the Brigham and Women’s hospital and a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School. In 2015, she returned to RCSI to further expand the postgraduate simulation curriculum in Surgery and Emergency Medicine.
She has over a decade of experience in simulation curriculum planning and delivery across all specialties and allied healthcare professionals, specialising in assessment. She has completed a fellowship in Surgical Education Research and a Masters in Health Professions Education with University of Illinois Chicago. She is a member of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and a founding committee member of the Irish Association for Simulation.
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