Almost a third of medical students left Ireland after graduating

Male Irish medicine graduates in 2013 earned €26 per week more than female graduates one year after graduation. After 10 years, this rose to €790 a week.

Almost a third of medicine graduates in 2013 left Ireland after graduating, and less than half came back within a decade, new research has suggested.

A new publication from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has found that 37% of nursing and midwifery graduates from the same year also emigrated, but over three in five (62%) returned.