Exploitation of foreign graduates still an issue

The exploitation of international medical graduates remains a live issue two decades on, a former President of the IMO has charged, as doctors lobbied the Medical Council and Minister for Health to ensure these medics were put on proper training schemes. Mr Asam Ishtiaq levelled the charge, as it emerged that the Department of Health had officially requested training bodies to ‘positively discriminate’ in favour of Irish and EU nationals in the allocation of training posts. Citing the Temporary Medical Register, as the old Trainee Specialist Register was called then, Mr Ishtiaq said: “This is the sort of stuff that…