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Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Coláiste Ríoga na Máinleá in Éirinn
RCSI Logo 2014.jpg
Motto Consilio Manuque
(Scholarship and Dexterity)
Type Private
Established 11 February 1784
Students 4185 (as of 2013)
Address 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland
Campus Urban
Registrar
President
Professor Cathal J. Kelly
Professor John Hyland
Affiliations National University of Ireland
Website http://www.rcsi.ie

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI; Irish: Coláiste Ríoga na Máinleá in Éirinn) is a professional association and educational institution that is responsible for the medical speciality of surgery throughout the island of Ireland. Uniquely among the four mutually recognised royal surgical colleges in the United Kingdom and Ireland, it also incorporates a medical school, which is now Ireland's largest with over 3000 students from 60 countries.

RCSI's main campus is situated on St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, having received its royal charter in 1784. At present, it incorporates schools of medicine, pharmacy, physiotherapy and nursing, and thus provides both undergraduate and postgraduate levels of education and research activities in a number of healthcare fields.

Since medieval times, the practice of surgery was licensed by the Barber-Surgeons' Guild, also known at the time as the Guild of St. Mary Magdalene. The guild chapel was in Christ Church Cathedral. Guild membership at that time was obtained by a 3-year apprenticeship followed by 2 years as a master. In fact the College of Surgeons maintained a mandatory period of apprenticeship to a qualified surgeon until 1828.

In 1446, the Barber-Surgeons' guild was incorporated by royal decree of Henry VI, becoming the first medical corporation in Britain or Ireland.


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