Dr Crowley is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine, 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 School of Medicine, 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 in Clinical skills at the Graduate Entry Medical School in June 2014. She is currently working towards completion of a Masters 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
  • Certificate in Medical Education- University of Dundee

Professional Experience: 

Current roles

  • Senior Lecturer with responsibility for delivery and assessment of the Year 2 Clinical Skills Programme
  • Chair of Year 1 and 2 Working Group
  • Part time/ locum GP

Professional Memberships: 

  • Member, Royal College Physicians Ireland( RCPI)
  • Member, Irish College of General Practitioners ( ICGP)
  • Member, Royal College of General Practitioners ( RCGP)
  • Member, Irish Network of Medical Educators (INMED)

Research Interests: 

Dr Crowley ‘s research interests in medical education  include student use of self-directed learning (SDL) in the context of clinical skills,  peer-to -peer teaching and teaching of professionalism and attempting to monitor outcomes of that teaching. She is currently researching the factors that affect the transition into graduate entry medicine at the School of Medicine. 

Publications

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.

Research/Fellowship Awards: 

Awarded INMED / Irish Medical Council -Research into Medical Education Grant in 2017 to look at the factors that affect the transition into Graduate Entry Medicine