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
Dr. John Farrell:
That is 9% of the people who are leaving internships applying. There are other people applying who have already done a number of years in, say, hospital medicine. As for the total number applying, we have had a record number of applications this year, more than 950. That is for 285 places starting next July. However, the target is 350, and we feel that that is the maximum within the current system. It is within the broader university population and the broader number of medical graduates, of whom there are about 1,000 every year.
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