The number of doctors registered with the Medical Council has reached an all-time high of over 19,000, according to a new report. Yet the Irish health service depends on foreign-trained doctors to a greater extent than in any other OECD country and has a relatively low number of doctors by international standards, according to the report published by the council. Last year, 35.7 per cent of doctors on the register had qualified in a medical school outside Ireland, up from 34.3 per cent in 2014. This compares to 3.1 per cent of foreign-trained doctors in France and 25.9 per cent in the US. Pakistan is the country where the greatest...
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