Medical Graduates Association (MGA)

E: mga@ucd.ie (for all enquiries) 

Founded in 1988, the UCD MGA in partnership with the UCD Alumni Development Office play a vital role in keeping you in touch with your fellow alumni across the world and with the University. Through the MGA, our graduates have the opportunity to build professional and social networks and to maintain old friendships and contacts. Currently, there are over 5,000 MB BCh BAO alumni on our database.

The MGA is your Association. It exists to help you maintain contact with your contemporaries and with the School and to help you avail of the many services that exist for UCD alumni. It offers graduates the chance to have a lifelong link to the Medical School and the University and gives you an opportunity to influence the School’s future.

Join with your global community of fellow graduates and capture the spirit of your time at UCD. Search the graduate database, find old friends, discover fellow graduates who live in your area and keep up-to-date with what is happening at your University. Continue to be a part of the UCD community worldwide. Stay in touch with people who have shared the UCD experience and share your aspirations for UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science.

 

MGA Class Representatives

MGA Distinguished Graduate Award Recipients
MGA North America

Network for Graduates in USA and Canada

The UCD MGA in North America exists to provide a forum and professional network for United States and Canadian based graduates.

In the years since its inception, the Association has with the assistance of a number of Scholarship Funds, assisted in supporting the Dublin administered ‘’, which has benefitted many UCD medical students in completing their educational objectives through their U.S experience. In addition a number of social and scientific meetings have been held both in Ireland and North America.

MGA Medals

Patrick Meenan & Liam O'Connell Research Medals

The UCD MGA awards two medals annually for excellence in research by graduates of the UCD School of Medicine. 

The Patrick Meenan Research Medal is presented for exceptional research in Medicine, Medical Microbiology or Surgery and the Liam O’Connell Research Medal for outstanding research in Oncology, Haematology and Immunology.  Both medals accumulate points for entry into Higher Surgical/Medical training.

The competition is by way of poster presentation and is open to graduates of the MB BCh BAO programme at the UCD Medical School who are under 40 years of age.  The paper may already have been presented at another scientific meeting.  The posters are presented at the School’s Research Symposium held in October each year.  The winners present their research at the MGA Annual Scientific Meeting and medals are presented at the School's Alumni Gala Dinner which takes place the following May.