RCSI’s Conferring Week celebrations got underway on Tuesday, 3 June with more than 310 guests attending the 2014 Undergraduate Conferring Dinner, hosted by Professor Hannah McGee, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

A number of awards will also be presented at the dinner. President, Professor Patrick Broe will announce the Clinical Tutor Teaching Awardees and Gleeson Teaching Award Winner. Awards to students to be announced include the Dan Kelly Memorial Medal, the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) Undergraduate Prize in Clinical Pharmacology, the Gold Medal of the Association of Graduates and the Connolly Hospital Sir William Osler Medal. 

For the first time, there will be two separate Conferring Ceremonies taking place during the Conferring Week. Both ceremonies will be live-streamed and the links to view will be circulated on the day of the ceremonies. 

The Higher Degree Conferring Ceremony took place on Wednesday, 4 June in RCSI. 47 candidates were conferred with degrees of Master in Pharmacy (MPharm), Master of Science (MSc), Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). 

On Thursday, 5 June, the School of Medicine conferring ceremony will take place at 4pm in the Convention Centre Dublin. 250 candidates will be conferred with degrees in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (MB, BCh and BAO). Professor Abraham C. Verghese, physician and best-selling author, will receive an honorary doctorate from RCSI at the Ceremony.

The week's celebrations conclude with the Graduation Ball in the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Burlington Road.