The third and final episode of the RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) interactive live-streamed broadcast for second-level students, ‘So You Want To Be A Doctor?' will give viewers an insight into the lives of four doctors working in four diverse specialities.

Students will also be able to use this opportunity to ask questions they may have on studying medicine ahead of the CAO deadline of 1 February. The broadcast airs this evening, Tuesday, 19 January at 6pm and is a three-part series for students in transition, fifth and sixth year who may be considering a career as a doctor. 

This episode, presented by Professor Arnold Hill, Head of the School of Medicine, RCSI, will give viewers an insight into the careers of a General Practitioner (GP), a Gastroenterologist, a Neurosurgeon and a Breast surgeon, who all began their respective careers by studying medicine.

The programme brings viewers to the practice of GP, Professor Susan Smith, who is also Professor of Primary Care Medicine at RCSI. Susan will speak about why she chose a career as a family GP and take viewers on a tour of the practice in Inchicore, Dublin. Viewers will also be brought to Beaumont Hospital to experience a day in the life of Consultant Gastroenterologist, Professor Frank Murray. He will outline what a gastroenterologist does and some of the most common illnesses patients present with.

Then we go into theatre for our final two doctors as Consultant Neurosurgeon, Professor Ciaran Bolger performs an operation on the brain and outlines the patient's case and tells the audience about what it is like performing such high pressure surgical procedures. Finally, Professor Arnold Hill will describe his specialty as a Breast Surgeon and will bring viewers through his research labs in Beaumont Hospital and detail their progress in treating breast cancer. He will also bring us into theatre where he is performing a procedure on a patient.

There will be a live-streamed question and answer session with Professor Hill at the end of the episode. With the CAO application deadline looming on the 1st February 2016, this is a great opportunity for students to ask any questions they may have on studying medicine as well as application procedures, questions on the HPAT (Health Professions Admissions Test), as well as on anything they have watched in the episode.

Speaking ahead of the broadcast, Professor Hill said, "As this is the final programme in this series, we will introduce four doctors so to give our audience an insight into as many of the different careers studying medicine will open up to them. It is important that those who may be filling out their CAO application, or for those who may be considering a change of mind at a later stage, make a well informed decision especially when choosing to study medicine which leads to careers that are vocations."