Eight out of 10 trainee doctors are considering leaving Ireland because of poor working conditions, training opportunities and work-life balance, a survey has revealed.
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) found almost one-fifth of the 523 doctors who responded to the survey had already emigrated between 2014 and 2016.
Twenty-two per cent of those
still in Ireland said they would definitely, or probably, leave, a
similar number were undecided and 18 per cent said they were definitely
staying.
Seventy-two per cent of doctors
who were undertaking or had recently completed postgraduate training in
Ireland believed they needed to spend time training abroad to compete
for consultant posts in Ireland.
However, more than 80 per cent also believed working conditions and training opportunities were better abroad.
RCSI
head of epidemiology and public health medicine Prof Ruairí Brugha, who
led the survey, said the chronic haemorrhage of doctors from Ireland
would continue as long as they were undervalued.
“Unless sufficient resources are
invested in providing specialist training for doctors after they have
graduated from medical school, employing them in adequately staffed
hospitals with comparable training and working conditions to what are on
offer in other countries, we will continue to lose those who are the
life blood of our health system,’’ he said.
Further replacement of our people. Who leave for greener pastures while those seeking greener pastures settle here, with sub standard education if they are at all qualified in the first place in many cases. This is unsustainable and is going to be one of the many contributors to Ireland's spiral back into being a third world nation.
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