Student Interest Group Feature

The General Practice Club

We are a group of RCSI students with a keen interest in primary care, striving to shine a light on the specialty and all it has to offer. Through the provision of a variety of student experiences, fundraising events, and engagement with the GP community, we hope to give an insight into primary care on a local and global level and provide an enjoyable student experience. We are currently operating with no formal recognition or funding from the college, but we hope to become officially brandished soon!

The GP Club was set up in 2020, in the height of the pandemic, and we managed to get right to work We organised for students to volunteer at the mass vaccination centre at The Helix in DCU from March-July 2021.

RCSI students were involved across a variety of roles including vaccine titration, acting as runners and administrative check-in, as well as helping patients in the observation area. Some even ended up on television! Involvement in The Helix set a good foundation for us to help out in other vaccination clinics throughout Dublin. Student volunteers from The GP Club assisted in GP clinics from Inchicore to Donnybrook throughout the months that followed

This experience provided a great insight for students into the connection between the GP and their patients in the community It also allowed us to feel like a small part of the efforts to put an end to the pandemic and a muchanticipated return to normalcy