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Training as a Consultant-here or elsewhere?

  • 11-04-2014 10:26pm
    #1
    marko747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭


    Hi all. I am interested in doing Medicine here in a Dublin university and then hoping to become a Consultant or GP. With the recent meeting of Gps in Dublin, I was wondering am I better looking at working abroad? My two preferences would be England (London) or America. Does it take as long to become a consultant? Is the pay better? And most importantly, can I then come back to practise here once I have completed my training? Have any of you done this? Many thanks :)


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  • #2
    Cymini Sectores
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭Cymini Sectores


    marko747 wrote: »
    I was wondering am I better looking at working abroad?
    Don't know about being a GP, but 2 out of 5 of my former housemates who are doctors have gone abroad to seek consultancy posts; one in US, the other in Canada. Whether they've gotten it or not, I don't know. Popular opinion suggests that the conditions are poor and one would be better off going abroad. 3 newly qualified interns whom I spoke to talked at length about the experience to be gained and were happy working here. Only one complained about the pay.
    marko747 wrote: »
    My two preferences would be England (London) or America. Does it take as long to become a consultant?
    Consultancy opportunity in Ireland is pretty grim. I am certain it'll be quicker to get one in the US. Don' know about UK.
    marko747 wrote: »
    Is the pay better?
    Not sure but I'd imagine that since the consultants here refuse to retire and give others a chance, the pay must be pretty good.
    marko747 wrote: »
    And most importantly, can I then come back to practise here once I have completed my training? Have any of you done this? Many thanks :)
    In order to practise, you must be registered with the Irish Medical Council and to do that you must have completed a year's internship.
    No, I am not there YET.


  • #3
    Ryder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Ryder


    This was all answered, better, on a recent thread on the future of Irish medicine. In brief, yes you could return, but could potentially be very difficult, and you would struggle in comparison to a locally trained graduate. Proportionately many more opportunities in the US so you may not want to return after spending 5-7 years there anyway.

    With the expansion of private care there will likely be more opportunities in Ireland in the next decade, but as for all of us now and before, there never is a guarantee of a consultancy. Vest advice I could give would be to pursue the specialty you are most interested in, get the best training you can, and hopefully the rest will look after itself,


  • #4
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Ryder wrote: »
    With the expansion of private care there will likely be more opportunities in Ireland in the next decade

    Good luck with that analysis.....

    The future here is completely up in the air. Consultants appointed presently are effectively public only except on terms which suits the HSE, the future is simply unknown as the plans for UHI simply do not state whether they will be private, salaried or a combination of both.
    The GP experience suggests that if private their fee's will be dictated by government with no possibility of negotiation.
    In short you would have to be mad to plan a future in medicine here (with no back up plan) with the uncertainty at the moment.


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