Medical graduates shun general practice over low starting salary

Debt-burdened medical graduates are shunning general practice because the starting salary is too low.

Some are struggling to pay loans of up to €100,000 on a basic internship salary of about €2,583 a month, it emerged yesterday.

The National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) said many of the medical graduates were forced to emigrate to get higher-paid jobs.