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7 unusual facts about Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland


Abdulaziz bin Ahmed Al Saud

In 2007, Prince Abdulaziz was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

Jack Stanley Gibson

Gibson graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, in 1933.

John Creaghe

Creaghe was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1841, and in 1865 he graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, becoming a doctor.

Maurice P. Collins

After graduating as a doctor he trained in general surgery and received his Fellowship (F.R.C.S.I.) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Michael Francis Ward

He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1868, and returned to Galway as Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Queen's College.

Nada Haffadh

Haffadh studied Medicine in Egypt and at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland before returning to Bahrain to practise, working for the Health Ministry both as a doctor and in administration.

Philippe Langlois

He studied in Caen and Paris and qualified in medicine in Dublin where he was received into the Royal College of Surgeons.


Alexander Dempsey

Educated at St Malachy's College, the Catholic University Medical School, Dublin and Queen's College, Galway, he earned the degree of Doctor of Medicine of the Royal University and the Diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1874.

Penang Medical College

PMC is an educational partnership between the Penang State Government through the Penang Development Corporation, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the University College Dublin.


see also

Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test

It is currently used as the selection criteria for all graduate-entry programmes in Ireland (University College Dublin, University of Limerick, University College Cork, and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland).