Troubling questions over the treatment of dead
Posted in Governance and administration on April 28th, 2019 by steve
“The spectre of the dead infants once confined in so-called Mother and Baby Homes is raising haunting questions for Irish universities. An entire chapter of the recently published fifth interim report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation is devoted to the burial of ‘anatomical subjects’, infant dead bodies transferred to universities for dissection and anatomical study …” (more)
[Órla O’Donovan, EchoLive, 26 April]
“Sinn Féin MP Elisha McCallion has said there is an urgent need for approval for a medical school to be established at Magee. The Foyle MP said: ‘The latest report from the Auditor General details the amount spent on locum doctors highlights the shortage of doctors and the need for more to be trained …'” (
“One hundred years after the publication of a report that helped determine the direction of medical education in the United States and Canada, the journal Academic Medicine has released a special issue examining how doctors are being educated at a time when proposed changes in health-care delivery are once again in the national spotlight …” (
