Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners
Mr. Fintan Foy:
I might take the Senator's second question, which had regard to training places. From our perspective, it all depends on the output from the medical schools. Somewhere between 800 and 1,000 graduates leave medical school and go into intern places every year. They then have somewhere between 13 and 16 different specialties to choose from. The capacity is built around that. From our perspective, getting 350 trainees out of that per annum by 2026 is probably the limit. This goes back to the previous discussion. To increase the numbers going into training places, the numbers going into medical school must increase. Based on the input into medical schools at the moment, we are probably at full capacity at 350.
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