A message from
Martin Mc Cormack, CEO
COVID-19 has changed how we live and work in ways that will alter our behaviour long after the pandemic subsides.
Colleges around the world moved rapidly to deploy digital technologies to support doctors to progress through their career, accelerating online examinations that were unfolding at a much slower pace before the crisis.
Our examinations team have shifted to a hybrid working model including working remotely and on site and we continue to deploy a range of new digital systems to address the challenges that were presented to our exam candidates and examiners .
We worked with the regulator , the Medical Council of Ireland to provide assurance on the significant changes that were being proposed and as leaders in the international academy of colleges of anaesthesiology , we shared our experience with the other colleges to keep at pace with the regulatory environment and maintain our position as world leaders in the training and education of Anaesthesiologists, Intensive care and Pain medicine specialists.
Dr Colman O’Loughlin, Dr John Bates, Dr Anne Hennessy, Honorary Secretary, Dr Brian Kinirons, President CAI, Prof George Shorten, President Elect CAI, Mr Martin McCormack, CEO.
We are embracing new ways of thinking about how we work and the impact the College can make globally. In relation to our examinations we have responded, in a way that we believe we are required to in order to lead, organize, manage and engage anaesthesiologists, critical care and pain medicine trainees in their career progression.
I want to take this opportunity to say thank you and express my gratitude to our team at the College, to you our Examiners, to our Examinations Committee and to all our supporters for your commitment.
It was hugely satisfying to see the great joy and celebration of achievement in evidence at our annual conferring ceremony in May. As examiners, question writers, standard setters, tutors, logistic coordinators, supporters and subject matter experts you each made a huge contribution to that occasion.
Thank you. Martin Martin Mc Cormack, MA ( Dubl.), MA (UCD) C Dir, FIoD Chief Executive Officer, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland