Dr. Sarah O’Brien

Originally a Limerick lady, Sarah  studied Medicine at University College Cork, and graduated in 1999. 

 

After working for four years in Cork University Hospital and St.Vincent’s in Dublin, she moved to the South East in 2003. 

 

Sarah  completed the South East Vocational GP Training Programme, and has been working full-time as a General Practitioner in Waterford since then. 

 

She is on the Specialist Register of the Irish Medical Council.

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Post-Graduate qualifications include MRCPI in General Medicine, MICGP in General Practice, Diploma in Child Health, Certificate in Family Planning, and Advanced Certificate in Long-Acting Contraception (counselling & fitting of coils and implants). 

 

Sarah  strives to keep up to date by regular attendance at Medical Education meetings, as well as her own personal professional development and finds one of the nicest aspects of being a GP, is the variety of the job. 

 

She has the opportunity to manage a plethora of medical problems on a daily basis, looking after patients at all stages of life, and not uncommonly several generations of the same family, here at Catherine Street surgery.