In June 42% of these junior doctors were reportedly considering residencies abroad, but many changed their minds as a result of the new government abolishing its predecessor’s regulation that medicine graduates must remain at the institute in which they carried out their vocational training for at least four years.

The new government also allows residents to defer their training, for instance if they have had children."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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