Assoc ProfessorDavid Menzies

Dr Menzies has extensive experience in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education across emergency medicine, trauma, pre-hospital care, retrieval medicine and critical-care transport. His teaching responsibilities include formal university teaching, curriculum development, simulation-based education, clinical supervision and national training initiatives. Dr Menzies also has a formal qualification in University Teaching & Learning.

Undergraduate teaching includes bedside teaching, small-group tutorials and case-based learning for Res Year and Final Year medical students in emergency medicine, trauma and pre-hospital care. He provides lectures for the Medicine 2 and Surgery 2 modules, examines OSCE and long-case assessments in medicine and surgery, facilitates undergraduate electives in pre-hospital care in collaboration with the National Ambulance Service, and delivers clinical skills teaching on the Professional Completion Module (PCM) for Final Year medical students.

Postgraduate teaching includes membership of the Irish Committee for Emergency Medicine Training (ICEMT), training CSTEM and ASTEM trainees, directing a Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Fellowship (SVUH/NAS/Dublin Fire Brigade), and delivering clinical skills teaching for FRCEM candidates, middle-grade doctors and SHOs. He teaches on Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine programmes run through RCSI CPDSS and provides clinical teaching for paramedic and advanced paramedic trainees during emergency department placements.

In retrieval medicine and critical care transport, he is a member of the Intercollegiate Retrieval and Transport Medicine Liaison Committee (IRTMLC) and Fellowship Director for the SVUH/NASCCRS/MICAS Retrieval Medicine Fellowship. He has delivered more than 60 national Critical Care Outreach training days for doctors, nurses and paramedics in the safe transfer of critically ill patients. He is a lead medical educator for the Adult Critical Care Transport (ACCT) course, developed through NDTP funding, and helped pilot and train the first cohort of Critical Care Paramedics in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also contributes to postgraduate academic programmes, including lecturing on the MSc in Emergency Medical Science (Immediate Care) and the Graduate Diploma in EMS (Advanced Paramedic). He mentors MSc candidates in EMS Immediate Care and supervises Advanced Nurse Practitioner candidates and Nurse Prescribing trainees.