School of Pharmacy And Tallaght Hospital Forge Partnership
Posted on: 03 September 2015
The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Trinity College Dublin has signed a partnership agreement with Tallaght Hospital, Dublin which will further enhance the education and professional development links between the University and hospital.
The agreement will further develop the existing links between the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Tallaght Hospital and involve a strengthening of current arrangements in the areas of undergraduate and post-graduate training, education, research and professional development in pharmacy.
Speaking at a special memorandum of understanding signing ceremony at Tallaght Hospital, Dr Patrick Prendergast, Provost of Trinity College, said the development would be of great mutual benefit to both institutions: “This partnership will further build on long standing links between Trinity’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Tallaght Hospital. It will forge its cooperation in teaching and research and provide an excellent environment for undergraduate and postgraduate education in Pharmacy.The Pharmacy Department in Tallaght is at the forefront of developments in education, research and clinical services.
“With our new five-year integrated pharmacy programme commencing this month, input from practitioners with both clinical and research expertise will be invaluable in ensuring our students are best prepared for current and future pharmacist roles. It will enable pharmacy students to get the very best of experience in one of the country’s busiest hospital pharmacies but it is also one that is recognised as being highly innovative.”
Sarah McMickan, Deputy CEO of Tallaght Hospital, said: “Our primary mission at Tallaght Hospital is to provide excellent patient care and to deliver this we need top class staff, educated and trained to the highest standards. As one of the country’s main teaching hospitals, we have a long established link with Trinity College at both under graduate and post graduate level in both medicine and pharmacy. This is central to our commitment to deliver clinical excellence across all our services. Our pharmacy links with Trinity span almost 34 years and extend to training, education, research and professional development programmes.
“We are delighted to formalise this long standing and highly positive relationship through the establishment of an official Memorandum of Understanding and it is a source of great pride that we see 12 members of the pharmacy team at Tallaght Hospital today being awarded academic titles from Trinity as part of this process. In congratulating the team, can I say it is our strong desire to see the relationship between both organisations flourish and to continue producing innovators, scientists and practitioners who are driven by a common desire to serve patients better into the future.”