Dr Louise Crowley
Dr Crowley is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS), in addition to working as a part-time General Practitioner.
She graduated from University College Dublin in 1998. After completing her intern year, Dr Crowley embarked on a career in Paediatrics and worked in this discipline to Specialist Registrar level, working in Paediatric units in Ireland and Australia.
In 2005 she opted to pursue a career in General Practice, and completed vocational training in both Irish Hospitals and in general practices in the UK. Since 2007, she has been working part-time as a locum General Practitioner (GP) in Limerick City and County.
In 2008, Dr Crowley became involved in teaching in the GEMS, initially as a Problem Based Learning (PBL) tutor, and then subsequently as a clinical skills tutor, and an anatomical skills tutor. She has also held the position of Paediatric Clinical Tutor in the GEMS. In 2010, Dr Crowley acted as Clinical Coordinator of the Year 1 Clinical Skills Programme. Since 2011, she has been Clinical Coordinator of the Year 2 Clinical Skills Programme. Dr Crowley was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the Graduate Entry Medical School in June 2014. She is currently working towards completion of a Certificate in Medical Education, via the Centre of Medical Education in Dundee.
MB BCh BAO- National University of Ireland
MRCPI (Paediatrics)- Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
MICGP- Irish College of General Practitioners
MRCGP- Royal College of General Practitioners
DCP- Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Current roles:
Senior Lecturer with responsibility for delivery and assessment of the Year 2 Clinical Skills Programme
Part time/ locum GP
Previous teaching roles:
Problem Based Learning (PBL) tutor
Clinical skills tutor
Anatomical skills tutor
Paediatric Clinical Tutor
Acting Clinical Coordinator of Year 1 Clinical Skills Programme
Member, Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Member, Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
Member, Irish Network of Medical Educators (INMED)
Dr Crowley ‘s research interests in medical education include student use of self-directed learning (SDL) in the context of clinical skills, in addition to peer –to –peer teaching and teaching of professionalism and attempting to monitor outcomes of that teaching.
Klimas, J., Lally, K., Murphy, L., Crowley, L., Anderson, R., Meagher, D., McCombe, G., Smyth, B. P., Bury, G. and Cullen, W. (2014) 'Development and process evaluation of an educational intervention to support primary care of problem alcohol among drug users', Drugs and Alcohol Today, 14(2), 76-86.
McGrath, D., Crowley, L., Rao, S., Toomey, M., Hannigan, A., Murphy, L. and Dunne, C. P. (2015) 'Outcomes of Irish graduate entry medical student engagement with self-directed learning of clinical skills', BMC Med Educ, 15(1), 301.