Title:	Professor Patrick Meenan Medal for Microbiology in Medicine
Award Type:	Medal
Long Description:	The Professor Patrick Meenan Medal for Microbiology in Medicine was established to remember, celebrate and honour his excellence as a scholar and teacher. He was appointed Professor of Medical Microbiology in U.C.D. in 1958 and went on to serve two terms as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, during which he was co-founder of the Medical Graduates Association. He served as acting President of U.C.D. and was a member of the Governing Body and of the Senate of N.U.I. He was also elected President of the Medical Council and the Medico-Legal Society of Ireland. Students registered to a medical degree programme in UCD may be eligible to compete for the Professor Patrick Meenan Medal in Microbiology in Medicine according to the following criteria: 1. The Head of Medical Microbiology together with other academic staff involved in teaching microbiology and infectious diseases will select modules within the medical programmes deemed to contain microbiology. 2. The grade point average of these modules will be used to select the top four students of medical microbiology in the semester that precedes the hospital based programme. 3. The top four students will be invited to attend a viva voce examination which will be based on the microbiology based learning outcomes of the selected modules. 4. The student with the highest performance at the viva voce examination will be awarded the Professor Patrick Meenan Medal.
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