ProfMuirne Spooner

Professor Spooner teaches undergraduate Medicine, Pharmacy, and Physician Associate students across clinical and classroom environments. She has received numerous accolades for her excellence in education, including two National Teaching Hero Awards, the RCSI President’s Award for Teaching, the RCSI Deputy Vice Chancellor Award for Excellence in Teaching (2025), and she is a record seven-time recipient of the Beaumont Clinical Tutor award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been the School of Medicine’s Interprofessional Curriculum Lead since 2021.  Muirne serves as the school’s representative for RCSI in the All-Ireland Interprofessional Education Challenge, with RCSI and its national university partners winning both Best Collaboration and Overall Winner at the 2025 Education Awards.

Muirne is an experienced faculty developer, providing workshops for consultants in essential skills for basic and higher specialist training for the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland for over the last decade. She also regularly provides item-writing and examiner training for national and international groups. She has been the lead of examiner training of the MRCPI General Internal Medicine Clinical since 2012, training examiners for both the national and international diets.  She is a faculty member for the RCPI Irish Clinical Academic Track , a faculty supervisor for University of Warwick (MSc Medical Education), and an acts an external examine for several institutions.