Event

Charter Meeting 2025

  • Date: 04 - 08 February 2025
  • Time: 09:00 - 18:00
  • Category: General events,  Surgical 
  • Location: RCSI Dublin St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
Register Event programme

The annual Charter Meeting will take place from 4-8 February 2025 in RCSI, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2.

The theme for the 2025 Charter Meeting is 'Next Generation Surgery'. 

Programme overview

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

08.45 - 09.45

Registration

09.45 - 16.15

National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) Annual Conference

19.00 - 21.30

19th Annual Intercollegiate Case Presentations

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

08.00 - 09.00

Registration

09.00 - 16.30

Annual Health Service Quality Improvement and Innovations Conference hosted by RCSI National Clinical Programmes in Surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Emergency Medicine

Thursday, 6 February 2025
07.30 - 09.00 Registration
07.45 - 08.45

Fellows and Members Networking Breakfast

09.00 - 10.30

Symposium I

10.30 - 11.00

Exhibition , Refreshments and Robotic Learning Village

11.00 - 13.00

Symposium II 
RCSI Early Career Surgical Network

13.00 - 14.00

Exhibition, Lunch and Robotic Learning Village

14.00 - 14.30

Johnson and Johnson Lecture
Precision Learning & Data Sharing Through Wearable Technology. What’s AI got to do with it?

delivered by: Dr Carla Pugh, Professor of Surgery, Stanford University in California

14.30 - 14.45

Awards and Presentations
14.45 - 15.15 

Keynote Lecture
A Tale of Two Colleges 

Mr Declan J. Magee
RCSI Past President (2014 - 2016)
14.45 - 16.15 Parallel Group I
– Faculty of Dentistry
– Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
– Irish Institute of Pharmacy (IIOP)

14.45 - 17.15

Symposium III
Training for the Shift to Robotic Surgery 

17.30 - 20.00

35th Annual Video Surgery Meeting

Friday, 7 February 2025

07.00

Registration 

07.30 / 09.00 - 10.30

Parallel Group II
– Breast Surgery
– Cardiothoracic Surgery
–  ENT / Otolaryngology
– General Surgery in Childhood
– Neurosurgery
– Ophthalmic Surgery
– Oral and Maxillofacial
– Pelvic Floor Conditions
–  Plastic Surgery
– Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
– Vascular Surgery 

10.30 - 11.00

Exhibition, Refreshments and Robotic Learning Village

11.00 - 12.30

Symposium IV
Best Practice in Clinical Governance 

12.30 - 13.00

32nd Carmichael Lecture
Trust and Truth in Healthcare

delivered by: Professor Deirdre Madden, Professor of Law, University College Cork 

13.00 - 14.00

Exhibition, Lunch and Robotic Learning Village

14.00 - 15.45

Symposium V
Pioneering the Future of Surgery: Medical Technology Innovation 

16.00 - 16.30

100th Abraham Colles Lecture
From Colles' Fracture to Gene-Activated Biomaterials: A journey through tissue engineering at RCSI

delivered by: Professor Fergal J. O’Brien, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Saturday, 8 February 2025

09.00 - 10.00

Registration
10.00 - 13.30

Irish Surgical Training Group Meeting (ISTG), including the annual Bosco O'Mahony Lecture 

Programme sponsors

RCSI would like to thank our programme sponsors.

NOCA Annual Conference

Charter Meeting

More information

CPD credits will be available for each day. Please ensure you check in at the registration desk each day.

Please note: CPD points cannot be awarded unless we have verification of your attendance. 

For queries, email events@rcsi.ie.