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Sporting events

  • 28-08-2011 9:07pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    Does anybody know what the legal position is with regard to helping out at sporting events? Are people on the trainee register actually allowed to do this anymore? Presumably there is a difference between helping out on a voluntary basis rather than being paid to provide medical services?

    A friend asked me to help out at an event, a sport i've been involved in for years. They need to have a doctor present for the event.

    Cheers


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Sitric wrote: »
    Hi guys,

    Does anybody know what the legal position is with regard to helping out at sporting events? Are people on the trainee register actually allowed to do this anymore? Presumably there is a difference between helping out on a voluntary basis rather than being paid to provide medical services?

    A friend asked me to help out at an event, a sport i've been involved in for years. They need to have a doctor present for the event.

    Cheers

    PM me if you'd like more info (am medical officer for a sporting body). Basically no is the answer. If you're on the trainee register ou are only allowed work in the hospital or employer you are registered with.
    Big problem are some sporting bodies had "trainee" doctors as their medical officers. Often these were far more experienced and qualified then potential replacements.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Sitric


    Thanks RobFowl,

    I hoped that was not the case as I really wanted to help out and get involved with this sport from a medical point. I rang the medical council today to ask their opinion and they confirmed, no doctors on the trainee register are now permitted to volunteer at sporting events, clubs, matches etc. You have to be on the general register in order to do this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭drzhivago


    Sitric wrote: »
    Thanks RobFowl,

    I hoped that was not the case as I really wanted to help out and get involved with this sport from a medical point. I rang the medical council today to ask their opinion and they confirmed, no doctors on the trainee register are now permitted to volunteer at sporting events, clubs, matches etc. You have to be on the general register in order to do this.

    Not entirely true

    In some specialties you need pre-hospital experience at such events even if on trainee register

    There are arrangements with the program director in such cases with a doctor on specialist register acting as trainer either on site or remotely

    Emergency medicine is an example and also anaesthetics/general practice


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