Recruitment to the academic track

Recruitment to the AIT is a competitive process that runs in tandem with recruitment to the standard internship. The latter is a national match based on an agreed calculation of centile rankings across all universities. Applicant offers are tiered according to Health Service Executive (HSE) recruitment policies. Running both processes in parallel ensures that all applicants remain eligible for internship until all offers are exhausted, thus removing any disadvantage from applying to the AIT that might otherwise cause anxiety. The timeline and interaction between processes is shown, with more detailed explanation provided in (Appendix 4). Application is encouraged by provision of information, presentations and meetings with final year students across all networks, often complementing information provided about internship more generally.

Fig 4: Timeline of recruitment to AIT

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