Pictured (l-r) is Abbie Fitzgerald (St Joseph’s College, Lucan) and Abbie Fitzpatrick (Mount Sackville, Dublin) with Dr Helena Kelly (Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy) conducting an experiment in the Pharmacy workshop at the RCSI Open Day on 5th January. More than 350 students from second-level schools throughout Ireland got a taste for life as a medical, pharmacy and physiotherapy student at the RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) Open Day. At this annual event, Leaving Certificate students also got to experience what it is like to work as a healthcare professional in each of these fields by witnessing a live operation and a real-life pregnancy scan, among many more activities.

Pictured at the RCSI Open Day are students looking on as Dr Cathy Monteith (Obstetrician at the Rotunda Hospital and RCSI) gives a pregnancy scan to mum-to-be Elaine Spain, who is five months pregnant. More than 350 students from second-level schools throughout Ireland got a taste for life as a medical, pharmacy and physiotherapy student at the RCSI Open Day. At this annual event, Leaving Certificate students also got to experience what it is like to work as a healthcare professional in each of these fields by witnessing a live operation and a real-life pregnancy scan, among many more activities.