Online healthcare CPD short courses
Meet your professional development needs in just five weeks with RCSI Online's short courses. Delve into cutting-edge healthcare courses and access transformative education, expertly delivered by industry-specialists.
Discover short online CPD courses from a world-leading medical sciences university in diverse areas such as AI, digital health, healthcare finance, strategy and cybersecurity. Experience a world-class education that fits seamlessly with your professional commitments.
Exclusive discount
We are delighted to confirm an exclusive 25% reduction on all short course fees for our Alumni, Fellows and Members, current RCSI students, RCSI clinical tutors and associated network partners. For our valued RCSI network, short courses are just €730 (reduced from €975 - T&Cs apply).
Apply now to avail of this great opportunity and propel your career to the next level.
Our courses
Access concise and focused learning opportunities, equipping you with specific knowledge and skills essential for success. Explore the most in demanded subject matter areas, all with a unique healthcare focus, and be guided by renowned leaders in their respective fields. Join us and take charge of your professional growth with our transformative educational experience.
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds immense promise for revolutionising medical imaging, a crucial component of routine clinical care across various specialties. This five-week online CPD course brings together core disciplines to address the rapidly growing skills gap in clinical settings. Harnessing AI's capabilities, the course aims to enhance efficiency and free radiologists to concentrate on more strategic aspects of their work. Our course seeks to clarify AI's role, demonstrating its capacity to uplift patient care in medical imaging.
- Next intake: January 2025
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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In the age of digital healthcare, the protection of health data is paramount. This course addresses the intersection of cybersecurity and privacy, essential for the safekeeping of sensitive patient information. Learn about data privacy, confidentiality, and the significance of cybersecurity in the context of health data. The 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack on the NHS exemplifies the importance of robust data protection. This course equips you with the knowledge and strategies to protect healthcare information effectively, ensuring you are a key contributor to the security and integrity of healthcare data systems.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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The Internet of Health Things represents a significant advancement in the healthcare sector, with numerous specialities leveraging its capabilities for improved clinical services. The IoHT integrates a network of interconnected devices that collect, transmit, and store healthcare data, offering a foundation for transformative healthcare practices. This technological integration is especially crucial in the collection and analysis of medical data, set to revolutionise healthcare delivery and patient care.
RCSI Online’s short continuing professional development (CPD) course provides an in-depth exploration of the IoHT's role in healthcare, melding technology and medicine to forge innovative solutions for a more efficient, effective healthcare system. In this course, you'll gain comprehensive insights into the architecture and diverse applications of IoHT in healthcare, learning how to effectively harness this technology to collect, analyse, and utilise vast amounts of healthcare data.
Join the Dots in Healthcare: Discover how IoHT is revolutionising patient care, data analysis, and clinical practices in healthcare.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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In healthcare, every change has a financial implication.
When proposing or planning reform, in addition to an awareness of the clinical dimensions and impact, healthcare professionals also need a critical understanding of how to make a financial case for change or for a new service.
For healthcare professionals who want to bring about change, lead a project or look to a future management role, this course will provide you with an understanding of the role of finance in healthcare, and equip you with the tools, language and confidence you need to make a business case.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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Contemporary healthcare systems generate large amounts of data. In an ideal scenario, these systems would be closely interlinked and the data within them easily shared to optimise care for patients. However, the complexities of both healthcare and data, as well as the scale of these systems and the large number of different individuals involved – healthcare professionals and patients – means this is far from simple.
This course will examine some of the key technologies relevant to digital health today. It will guide you towards an understanding of these technologies and how they are used on an operational level. The course will explore how health data generated by the consumer through smartphones and other technologies, coupled with data generated through patient interactions with healthcare practitioners, might be harnessed to enhance patient care and deliver operational efficiency.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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Health tracker apps on our phones, patient files being shared between different clinicians, multidisciplinary healthcare teams collaborating within and across institutions: these are just some of the ways in which the digital revolution is impacting healthcare.
At the same time, the rise of person-centred healthcare means that, instead of treating one aspect of an illness or injury, health professionals increasingly look at the whole person. It’s not enough, for instance, to just treat a patient’s heart condition in isolation. Instead, the clinician needs to look at their wider circumstances, such as their diet, income levels and housing conditions.
This course will guide you through the wider issues involved in the digital health revolution, and how digital tools can be used to deliver a person-centred healthcare model. It will examine the drivers of this digital disruption and the forces resisting change, before inviting you to analyse the implications for your organisation, as well as your professional and personal identity.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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No organisation can function effectively without a strategy.
In the past, strategy was more likely to be developed by senior management, and companies and organisations tended to closely guard their strategic plan. Today, however, strategic planning tends to involve widespread consultation, and to be published for anyone to see.
As part of this course you will discover how strategy is now used as a communication and organisational tool, rather than one that necessarily provides an organisation with a competitive advantage. You will consider how you can successfully input into an organisation’s strategy, and how to ensure that a strategic plan does not gather dust on a shelf but instead leads to real progress in your healthcare environment.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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Technology has driven change in healthcare since the dawn of humanity but, in recent years, digital advancements are proving to be transformative for both patients and healthcare professions. In this course you will learn about the specific technologies that are changing healthcare.
The course will provide you with an overview of the technologies used in the relatively recent past, how they have influenced currently-used technologies, and what impact future advancements may have in the sector.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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The future of health is personalised.
As science reveals more about the 'omics' in human biology – mainly genomics but also proteomics, epigenomics, microbiomics and more – it also uncovers how this differs from one individual to the next, allowing medicine to be tailor-made for individuals. Such developments mean not only that we can treat a patient’s specific illness, but also use data to better predict how a person will respond to treatment and, ultimately, focus on health interventions that may prevent a person from becoming sick in the first place.
This course will enable you to develop an understanding of this field, and consider how personalised health could potentially deepen social inequalities if access is not equal. You will also consider how personalised health raises data privacy concerns.
- Next intake: 2025 (TBC)
- Duration: 5 weeks
- Awards: 16 CPD points and RCSI Completion Certificate
- Price: €975
- Discount: 25% off for alumni, fellows and members, current students, RCSI clinical educators and associated network partners
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Why RCSI?
Ensuring minimal disruption to your work-life commitments – we provide interactive and flexible online healthcare programmes designed for every career stage.
As an RCSI postgraduate student, you will become part of an international learning community and will join a multidisciplinary alumni network of over 32,000 graduates.
Learn from RCSI's leading academics and expert practitioners, who are committed to creating inclusive and dynamic learning environments for busy healthcare professionals.
Immerse yourself in case-based and research-driven education – RCSI integrates the latest cutting-edge research and innovation into every programme offering.