Donal Burke Lectures
The inaugural Donal Burke lecture was delivered in 1984 by Dr. John F. Fleetwood. The Lecture is under the direction of the Section of General Practice. The Section sought permission to arrange an annual lecture with the presentation of a bronze medal to be called “The Burke Medal“. This was agreed by the General Council on Wednesday 7th December 1983
Previous presenters of the Donal Burke Memorial Lecture :
2005 Eugene O’Connor – Look Back in Anger and in Love
2004 E Farrell
2003 D. O’Connell
2002 Tom O’Dowd – General Practice and Primary Care – A Loveless Affair
2001 Michael Flynn
2000 Philip Reilly
1999 Michael Boland
1998 Gerard Bury
1997 Ellard W. Eppel – Memories, Morals, Misgivings
1996 James McCormick – Follies and Fallacies in Medicine Revisted
1995 John Mason – What Price Achievement?
1994 A. Meade – The Imperative Physician
1993 Laurence Fulham – Biddy Early and the C.A.T. Scan “The Realities of Primary Care”
1992 William Shannon – The Place of Academic General Practice in a Medical School Today
1991 C. McNamara
1990 Bartley Sheehan – Medicalisation of Social Unease
1989 David Nowlan – Medicine and the Media
1988 E. V. Rutledge
1987 R. O’Hanlon
1986 B. Long
1985 C. O’Doherty
1984 John F. Fleetwood – A Historical Review of General Practice
Inaugural Eugene O’Connor Silver Medal talk
2010 Hubert O’Connor – Napoleon’s Personal Physician – an Irish Doctor’s story