Biography
Professor Aidan CulhaneMB, FRCGP, MICGP, FFSEM,DCH, D.Obst,FP Cert, Dip.Sports Med.(Lond) Dip. Clinical Teaching (NUIG)
Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor
Professor Aidan Culhane has been teaching at the University of Limerick - School of Medicine since its foundation in 2007. He was one of the first problem based tutors in the UL - School of Medicine and continues in that role. He is also the module lead for the Early Patient Contact Programme for the UL - School of Medicine and a general practice tutor for Year 3 students. He was actively involved in setting up the UL - School of Medicine, Ireland's only, Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) and continues to be involved in its evolution.
Professor Culhane is a member of The UL General Practice Education Working Group, The UL General Practice and Public Health Research Group and the UL Education, Research and Writing Group. His research interests include Quality Assurance of LICs', the contribution of Early Patient Contact programmes to medical school curricula, Professional identity formation of medical students on Early Patient Contact Programmes and LICs'. He is involved in researching Benzodiazepine prescribing by health care professionals to patients with Intellectual Disability and researching Vit D levels in patients with intellectual disability. He is also currently researching how the elderly have coped during the Covid 19 pandemic.
Professor Culhane is a general practitioner, a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a Member of the Irish college of General Practitioners. He has worked in rural, inner city, academic, group and single- handed general practice in four different countries across three different continents. He qualified from UCC in Cork in 1982. He did his formal general practice training in the UK in the Cleveland General Practice training scheme, then work in London for two years, firstly as an emergency medical officer in St Bartholomew's Hospital then at The London Hospital studying Sports Medicine. Professor Culhane is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports Medicine RCSI and in 2004 he was medical officer to the Irish Olympic Team at the Athens Olympics. Professor Culhane then worked in the middle east for two years. Following this he worked in Australia where he was a rural teaching fellow in rural general practice at the University of Western Australia which included working with the Royal Flying Doctor Service where he was trained in ACLS and ATLS. In 1992 Professor Culhane returned to Ireland and took up a position as Lecturer in General Practice in the medical school at the RCSI.
Professor Culhane is a principle GP in practice in Castleconnell, County Limerick and a trainer in general practice with the mid-western vocational training scheme for general practice. He is also medical officer to over 200 patients with intellectual disability with the Daughters of Charity services for intellectual disability