Louth professionals graduate from RCSI

A NUMBER of graduates from Louth were among the healthcare and research professionals who graduated from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland recently.

A total of 889 candidates were conferred with undergraduate and postgraduate awards at four separate ceremonies over two days as part of the College’s winter conferring ceremonies.

The ceremonies were held between RCSI’s York Street campus on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin and the Convention Centre Dublin. Among those graduating was Cormac Black from Drogheda, who graduated with a Degree of Master of Pharmacy (MParm).

The two days of ceremonies included the graduation of 89 candidates from full-time undergraduate programmes including pharmacy, physiotherapy and medicine. 93 candidates were conferred at the Diploma, Masters and Doctoral Degree ceremony and two further ceremonies, saw the graduation of 707 candidates from the School of Nursing & Midwifery and Master’s Degree candidates.

RCSI is ranked among the top 250 (top 2%) of universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2018) and its research is ranked first in Ireland for citations.