Medical intern offers?

A friend of mine called the HSE and apparently they're being sent to the med schools this afternoon/tomorrow morning and to us no later than 5pm tomorrow

Did anyone/everyone get an email from the Medical Council with some sort of number? Some of my classmates did today but I've heard nothing.

haven't received my registration number either.

Dear Intern Applicants



The Intern Allocations will be released at 10am on Monday 11th June 2012. I understand this might be inconvenient for some due to limited email access while away on holidays. It might be wise to have a family member check on your behalf if this is an issue.

What will be required at that time is a return reply indicating acceptance or otherwise before 5pm on Wednesday June 13th. Also, dates and contact details for contract signing will be given. If you cannot attend, you must email the relevant hospital.



Please also note, the email offering a post will come from the network where you are allocated. Applicants who have not been allocated a post will be contacted directly by the National Recruitment Service



Best Wishes

if we aren't allocated a post, apparently we are kept on a reserve list and have to wait for people to reject their offers so that those on the reserve list can fill those posts. if you are unsuccesful at that stage, they will use you to fill any vacancies that come up during the year.

sillymoo wrote: »

Vamos77 was this an email you got or somethin official etc? Just wondering why no one in my class got anything like this.

Sorry, yeah this was an email my college's intern cordinator sent us, but it applys to us all, as the network itself will send you the email your intern post and deadline for accepting is same for all colleges in the country.

Welcome to the HSE... the bullying starts now

10am on the dot for Dublin Southeast anyway

Alicat9, would you mind telling if you are EU or non-EU and any other details you'd like to share about what post you got (and managed to keep)? Just trying to understand what is happening with the HSE. Having to wait til next week, after all this time, is ridiculous!

kopci wrote: »

Alicat9, would you mind telling if you are EU or non-EU and any other details you'd like to share about what post you got (and managed to keep)? Just trying to understand what is happening with the HSE. Having to wait til next week, after all this time, is ridiculous!

Hey I'll answer that for you too. I'm an Irish citizen. My job is in St James' in Dublin and has no peripheral attachment (if that matters).....

They've had to reissue jobs because not everyone was included in the first round due to admin errors. This was the fairest way to ensure everyone got the job they deserved. Typical HSE messing up in the first place!

Yes, that's exactly what I'm questioning too. I have an EU friend that didn't get anything so I figured that some people were wrongly excluded. But except for maybe a very few people at the top of the list, including new people into the match should bump almost everybody, shouldn't it? And how can they know already who will be bumped and who won't, unless they've already processed the re-match? In which case, why can't they tell us our new offers?

vamos77 wrote: »

I also got the "Dear stupid, you really think you got that intern placement you were so happy to get? we were just kidding. Maybe " email.

My contract signing was tomorrow morning at 9, this has upset me greatly as i already made plan for accomodation etc.

Thanks for that!! Made me laugh out loud on an otherwise unhappy evening! And yes, I was wondering about people who had made plans based on their allocations already. I know I certainly wasted enough time looking for accommodation, potentially in the wrong location.

actin wrote: »

I can confirm that interns from TCD, UCD and UL all received these emails.

But not UCC, NUIG or RCSI? Doesn't make sense.... Are their contracts being signed as normal tomorrow? Anyone here know?

The3Musketeers wrote: »

But not UCC, NUIG or RCSI? Doesn't make sense.... Are their contracts being signed as normal tomorrow? Anyone here know?

I've no idea about other colleges; I assumed they received the emails too.

I would suggest that anyone who is concerned about the security of their job offer emails the HSE and makes their voice heard. The more emails they receive, the better!

thatone wrote: »

Yeah RCSI got them too. But not everyone. A good few have no email and none in junk mail etc at all. Such a joke. Was so happy with my spot...

That's very odd. Everyone I've spoken to in UCD/UL (and the one or two in TCD) all received the email.

There seems to be two forms of the email, identical apart from one says :

Unfortunately it is possible that an incorrect post allocation offer was made to you which may be amended in line with the revised results.

and the other says:

In relation to the offer made to you this offer will remain unchanged.

I've heard numerous theories on why this mix up has occurred.

a) There has been a mix up with EU/Non-EU students. Some EU students have been marked as non-EU, and in addition, several non-EU students are kicking up stink that they weren't offered any job despite paying so much for their courses.

b) Students who were not offered places last year (for whatever reason, percentile etc) were meant to be offered a place this year but were not. I've heard this from some people who are interns this year who have heard people in their class who were not offered a place last year were not offered a place this year either.

From what I've heard myself, those with very good percentile rankings have received the "safe" letter while the majority of people have received the "maybe unsafe" letter.

Does anyone have any other information?

Just to follow up on this, I'd be interested in getting a representative from each university class together if this isn't resolved rapidly.

thatone wrote: »

I'm not sure about the percentile rankings, but I know at least two non-eu students that got the unchanged email, so surely they can't guarantee that unless they know what jobs are being changed...?

That is confusing; you're saying that two non-EU students received the email saying their offers would not change? And they received intern placement offers in Ireland on Monday?

actin wrote: »

That is confusing; you're saying that two non-EU students received the email saying their offers would not change? And they received intern placement offers in Ireland on Monday?

I suppose that is not impossible. It all depends on the preferences of the newly-added (previously wrongly excluded) candidates, as well as the preferences of the people they bump. If those non-EU students got posts that no one has listed in their preferences, they might indeed be 'safe'.