{"id":187689,"date":"2025-12-12T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187689\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:30:10","slug":"nearly-half-of-gp-trainees-this-year-are-from-universities-abroad-amid-irelands-family-doctor-shortage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187689\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of GP trainees this year are from universities abroad, amid Ireland\u2019s family doctor shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Republic of Ireland medical schools accounted for 54pc of GP training places in July\u2019s intake, while the number of places overall has increased significantly in recent years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From 2021 to\u00a02024, 732 chosen trainees were from Irish medical schools. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a38137a-dbd9-4b95-b8ee-5fe46d26d057.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From 2021 to\u00a02024, 732 chosen trainees were from Irish medical schools. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A significant number of doctors who are training to be GPs in Ireland come from medical schools abroad, amid the shortage of family doctors in Ireland, it emerged yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">GP training places have increased in recent years in the hope they are a pipeline to producing more who will work in this country delivering care to patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland medical schools accounted for 54pc of GP training places in July\u2019s intake, while the number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4593,103,397,396,61,60,5761],"class_list":["post-187689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-university-of-galway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}