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I'm an Irish student at a Bulgarian medical school (so no Irish intern year), planning to observe on a medical team after graduating and hoping it leads to an SHO post.

Most stories online come from people it worked for, so I'd love the other side from anyone who's hosted observers or attachment doctors:

Roughly how many have you had in the last few years, and how many got a post on your team, or anywhere, within a year?

What made the difference for the ones who did?

Did any get nothing, and why?

Is it different in a peripheral hospital vs a Dublin teaching hospital?

Not looking for a job or an observership, just trying to plan realistically. Thanks!

Edit: thanks all, the consensus so far is that observerships rarely lead to jobs and direct applications are the better bet. Is anyone on a general or acute medicine team seeing anything different? Even a rough "we had about X observers, Y got posts" would help.

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1. Which hospital, how long, and did it lead to a job there, somewhere else, or nothing?

2. Had you been there before as a student?

3. What made the difference: the consultant pushing your name, an advertised post, a gap that came up, locum shifts?

Thanks!

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1. For anyone who shortlists standalone SHOs: does a student placement in your department 1–3 years earlier count for anything with a new EU grad, or only experience after registration?

2. EU grads whose diploma came months after the final exam: did anyone get IMC registration or a job offer before it arrived (e.g. the uni issuing it early on request)? How long from last exam to registration?

3. Did anyone observe in an HSE hospital between graduating and IMC registration, using home-country or GMC registration? Did medical manpower accept it?

Thanks!

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If anyone knows anything about this any information would be much appreciated

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