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APPLICATION
Irish Medical School Admissions
Applying to undergraduate or graduate-entry medicine in the Republic of Ireland.
There are six medical schools in the Republic of Ireland: University College Dublin (UCD), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), University College Cork (UCC), and the University of Limerick (UL). All offer both an undergraduate-entry (typically five or six years) and a graduate-entry (four years) route, with the exception of UL which is graduate-entry only.
Irish undergraduate applications for residents of Ireland are made via the Central Applications Office (CAO) on the basis of Leaving Certificate points combined with the HPAT-Ireland aptitude test. EU and non-EU applicants apply through institutional routes. Graduate-entry applicants use GAMSAT scores and apply directly to each school. The four-year graduate-entry programmes in Ireland have, historically, been popular routes for UK and international graduates.
Fees, places, and selection thresholds vary substantially between EU and non-EU applicants, and the Irish higher education system distinguishes carefully between the two. Verify your status and the relevant fee category with each university before applying.
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This page is one of a set of medical school and medical careers resources on chrispaton.org, replacing the category landings of New Media Medicine (newmediamedicine.com), an early digital health blog and UK medical school applications community I ran between 2004 and 2014. The original New Media Medicine forum threads — user-generated content from that community — are not republished here; this is original framing written to help current applicants find authoritative information. Always confirm details with the official sources linked above before acting on them.