IRLOverview
Structured two-year clinical training in psychiatry in the Irish public health service for trainees from Pakistan (CPSP) and Sudan (SMSB), working as SHO then registrar, after which doctors return home.
The programme
- Training type
- Clinical fellowship
- Duration
- Usually 2 years (rotation to a different site after 12 months)
- Start
- July
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- IMGTI (HSE and Forum of Irish Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies); training recognised by CPSP and SMSB
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Trainees on a training programme in Pakistan (CPSP) or Sudan (SMSB), generally with ≥1–2 years' training completed; Intermediate Module (IMM) exam passed; IELTS certification
- International applicants
- Yes – Pakistan and Sudan scholarship strand; sponsored strand for fully home-funded doctors via home training body
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Liaison with home training body each November for following July start
- Application method
- Contact home-country training body (CPSP or SMSB); applications managed by the Forum with HSE-NDTP
Funding
- Funding
- Employed by assigned site under the NCHD contract (scholarship strand)
RWA · Psychiatry