Consultants ‘fail to show for teaching sessions’

CLAIMS by medical students that hospital consultants failed to show for 30% of their teaching sessions last year are to be investigated by an Oireachtas committee.

Their absence has been described as “unacceptable and intolerable” by Oireachtas Health Committee chair Fianna Fáil TD Batt O’Keeffe.

Mr O’Keeffe said the practice “had major implications for the future standards in our health service” because it meant students were denied almost a third of their teaching sessions in medical schools.