Irish College of General Practitioners
GP Trainee Recruitment 2017 – Shortlisting Guidance
The assessment of this application form principally determines which candidates are
invited to interview.
The assessment of the application form also contributes 20% of the final recruitment
mark, while the interview contributes 80%.
The assessment and scoring will be in the following areas.
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Academic Qualifications
Research Achievement/Quality Assurance
Professional Development
Full and timely completion of form
Total:
Max 10
Max 10
Max 16
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Max 40
Some detail on how each of these are marked are given below
1. Academic Qualifications
Max 10
This is subdivided into undergraduate honours, postgraduate degrees, other relevant
undergraduate degrees and higher postgraduate qualifications.
A first class undergraduate degree attracts 5 marks with reducing marks for a second class
honours degree, honours in individual final medicine subjects and prizes.
Postgraduate degrees attract marks, the highest being 5 marks for full membership of the
Royal College of Physicians and lower marks for other significant academic achievements.
No marks in this section for diplomas but these can attract marks in the latter category of
Professional Development.
Other undergraduate degrees may attract up to 3 marks.
2. Hospital Experience
Marks are not awarded for hospital experience at application stage.
3. General Practice Experience
Marks are not awarded for GP experience at application stage.
4. Academic/Research Developments
Max 10
The highest marks in this category are earned by being among the first three authors of a
paper published in a peer reviewed journal relevant to general practice. Very few applicants
in any year would gain the full marks in this category and a large number of successful
applicants have no marks in this category. Marks are also gained by published audit, oral
and poster presentations to national or international medical conferences and publication
in relevant peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals.
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5. Professional Development
Max 16
This section awards marks for focused pursuit of a career in medicine, which can be in any
division of medicine up to this point. We wish to hear, for example, about your courses,
exams, quality assurance work and official teaching roles. Applicants that achieve a score of
four or less in this section will not be invited to interview. All doctors eligible for entry to the
trainee specialist register of the IMC up to the end of their third year post qualification,( i.e.
clinical intern and 1st & 2nd year of SHO) automatically score as an acceptable applicant as
they have not had the opportunity to score on career progression All of these doctors
automatically score 6 marks,
6. Personal Development
Please describe here your personal experiences and achievements, which you feel are
relevant to a future career in General Practice. There is a strict 100 word limit. Marks are
not awarded for this section at application stage.
Full and timely completion of application form
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These marks, awarded for full completion of the application with appropriate legible
supporting documentation by the closing date, will be awarded by the ICGP GP Training
Unit.
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