General
- Clinical and research based 12 month fellowship
- Minimum 1 – 2 days per week for research
- Honorary Clinical Lecturer appointment with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Six month training in JFICMI Basic Critical Care Echocardiography
- The Rotunda also has an active audit and research programme with recent fellows presenting their research at international research competitions
Hospital
Founded in 1745, the Rotunda is the oldest stand-alone maternity hospital in the world and the busiest maternity hospital in Europe. The department of anaesthesiology has 10 consultant anaesthetists and many trainee anaesthetic doctors caring for approximately 8,500 families per year. It is a tertiary referral centre for both complex maternal disease and fetal disease including in-utero fetal surgery, with well-developed multi-disciplinary pathways for the provision of care for these complex cases. Within Rotunda is the National Centre for Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy including both acquired and congenital maternal cardiac disease.
