A summary of Professor Pat Fottrell's report.
• The intake of EU students into Irish medical schools should be increased from 305 to 725 a year.
• The increased intake should include school-leavers and graduates and it should be phased in over a four-year period.
• By the end of this phased increase there should be a 60:40 ratio between intake to the undergraduate and graduate programmes.
• The undergraduate programmes should normally be of five-year duration and the graduate programmes of four- year duration for students with appropriate prior educational experience.
• All graduates of honours bachelor degree programmes should be eligible to apply for entry to the graduate programme and should not be required to have completed any specific type of degree programme.
• The selection method to be used for graduates should be based "on an appropriate test". There should be a limit on the number of times a student may sit the entry test.
• Leaving Certificate results should no longer be the sole selection mechanism for undergraduate students wishing to study medicine. Students who get 450 points or more in the Leaving Certificate should be eligible to sit a standardised test and applicants should be ranked for entry to medical school on the basis of performance in that test.
• A national implementation committee should be formed to assess and devise appropriate entry mechanisms for both school-leavers and graduates. The entry method must be seen to be fair and transparent.
• Additional structured clinical training capacity should be developed.
• The proportion of non-EU students entering clinical training should be no greater than 25 per cent of total student intake by the end of the phased increase in EU students.
• There is an urgent need to increase funding of undergraduate medical education in the Republic.