DrCriona Walshe

With a masters in clinical education through NUI Galway, Criona has over 15 years experience in teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional education. She has led the RCSI undergraduate Anaesthesia and Critical Care programme since 2012 with responsibility for curriculum design, programme delivery and assessment. Her teaching spans classroom, clinical and simulation environments and more recently the evolution of in situ interprofessional simulation training in both theatre and outside theatre environments. 

Her educational practice is grounded in learner centred approaches which has led to the introduction of the use of peer instruction as a novel technique of achieving active learning among large group Anaesthesia and Critical Care teaching sessions.

More recently, through her role as Clinical Partnership Lead in HPEC, she has led the development of an interprofessional Faculty Development programme which successfully launched in July 2026. This programme aims to equip Clinical Educators in RCSI with the knowledge, skills and identity to provide highest quality education for RCSI students across all Schools.

Criona has experience in supervision, mentoring and coaching, supervising the Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia both in their educational and research endeavours, and medical students who undertake clinical attachments in the Department of Anaesthesia. More recently she has participates as tutor for RCSI medical students, and coach for Masters in Health Professions Education students.