General Practice: A Flexible and Fulfilling Career

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Thinking About a Career in General Practice?

General Practice offers you a rewarding and fulfilling career, a life with you in control, with vast opportunities to specialise in the area of medicine you want to follow. A life with the support of your colleagues, and the time to spend with your family and friends.

It’s never been a better time to become a GP in Ireland. GPs have even more scope to specialise, expand and define their role in the community and at the heart of the Irish healthcare services.

Make a Real Difference

  • Be a GP and make a genuine difference to the lives of people and communities.
  • Watch your patients grow and recover, adapt and change.
  • Be part of a team that makes a difference to an individual by listening, helping and being passionate about their care and their lives.
  • Enjoy the diversity.
  • Be a listener.
  • Be a problem-solver.

Enjoy a Balanced Life

  • Be a GP and control your hours, define your day.
  • Protect your time to learn and work to live, not live to work.
  • Enjoy a life with independence and flexibility.
  • Have a family-centred lifestyle in the heart of your community.

Be a Generalist and a Specialist

  • Be a GP and be a diagnostic powerhouse, challenged by every patient who walks through your door.
  • In any one day, diagnose a wide variety of conditions, from heart disease to depression, minor surgery and paediatrics – helping patients with all medical presentations.
  • Partake in lifelong learning, with CME, supportive professional networks and opportunities to develop special interests.