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“I am kind of in stalemate”. The experiences of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland
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posted on 2019-11-22, 15:51 authored by Niamh Humphries, Posy Bidwell, Ella Tyrrell, Ruairi Brugha, Steve Thomas, Charles NormandIntroduction (extract):
Although historically a source country for health workers, Ireland began actively recruiting health workers internationally in the early 2000s and is becoming the OECD country with the second highest dependency on foreign-trained doctors (OECD, 2010) and the highest dependency on foreign-trained nurses (OECD, 2010). Between 2000 and 2009, 40% of all newly registered nurses in Ireland were from outside the EU (Humphries, Brugha & McGee, 2009). The number of foreign-trained doctors registered on the Irish Medical Register1 increased by 259% between 2000 and 2010 (Bidwell et al., 2013).
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