Doctors who had bad experience of internship more likely to leave

The study, titled The impacts of training pathways and experiences during intern year on doctor emigration from Ireland, also found a link between positive and negative training experiences and the likelihood of staying to work in the Irish health system.

More than a third of final-year medical students intended to remain in Ireland after their internship, with more than half intending to work overseas, and some planning on never returning. 

The survey of 232 final-year students in Ireland’s six medical schools also found that those studying shorter graduate programmes were more likely to stay here post-qualification than those on longer direct entry programmes.