Dr Ronan Kavanagh

Co-founder and Director of dotMD Dr Ronan Kavanagh explains what was involved in choosing speakers for this year’s conference Described as the ‘Electric Festival of Medical Conferences’, dotMD is the annual award-winning Festival of Medical Curiosity for doctors. It explores the spaces between medicine, the arts and culture and sells out every year. The ideas…

Today’s medical students might have 24/7 access to information online but patients are not ‘virtual beings’, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh

Dr Ronan Kavanagh on why a simple introduction is so important, yet is largely missing in healthcare services

Dr Ronan Kavanagh on what medicine can learn from music

There is some wisdom in the old adage that ‘your alcohol intake is okay, as long as you’re not drinking more than your doctor’, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh

A life in medicine marks us out as different from early on, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh

Dr Ronan Kavanagh shares his favourite medicine-related books of the year

Dr Ronan Kavanagh speaks to the doctor behind a popular new podcast which focuses on medical matters

Medicine, it seems, has more in common with Jazz than you might think, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh

In an age where cosmetic surgery is so widespread, there is no map to help guide us through that tricky first meeting with a surgically enhanced friend or colleague, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh