Overseas medical qualifications we do not accept

  1. Summary
  2. When we assess whether an overseas primary medical qualification is acceptable
  3. When and how to check your primary medical qualification is acceptable
  4. Our criteria for acceptable overseas qualifications
  1. Overseas medical qualifications we do not accept
  2. Overseas medical qualifications we may accept
  3. Information for medical schools and universities
  4. Definitions of terms we use

We don’t accept primary medical qualifications (PMQs) from the institutions listed below.

We only place an institution on this list after carrying out a full investigation and concluding it is the most appropriate action. We may add an institution where, for example:

  • we have information that shows its qualification doesn't satisfy our current criteria for overseas PMQs
  • we get information about irregularities with the institution’s course of study or the awarding of qualifications.

If you have any questions about this list, please contact us. 

Country

Medical institution

Antigua and Barbuda
  • Atlantic University School of Medicine

Belize

  • St Matthew’s University School of Medicine

  • Grace University School of Medicine

China

  • Chengdu Institute of Physical Education (for all students that graduated from 2024 onwards)

  • Heze Medical College (for all students that graduated from 2024 onwards)

  • Hubei University of Chinese Medicine First Clinical College (for all students that graduated from 2024 onwards)

  • Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (for all students that graduated from 2019 onwards)

  • School of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Capital Medical University (for all students that graduated from 2024 onwards)

  • Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 

  • Shantou University Medical College

  • Shandong Medical College (for all students that graduated from 2024 onwards)
  • Zhang Zhongjing School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (for all students that graduated from 2024 onwards)                 

Cook Islands

  • St Mary’s Medical School

Georgia
  • European University Tbilisi (for students who started study before 2019)
  • Caucasus Medicine School (for students who began or completed their study prior to 2022)
  • New Vision University (graduates who have completed the medical qualification in less than six years)
Kazakhstan
  • Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, also known as:
  • Almaty State Medical University
  • JSC National Medical University
  • Kazakh National Medical University named after S. D. Asfendiarov (KNMU)
  • Kazakh State Medical University named after S.D. Asfendiyarov
  • Alma-Ata State Medical Institute named after S.D. Asfendiyarov
  • Alma-Ata State Medical Institute

For all doctors who completed the five year ‘Bachelor of Healthcare in General Medicine’ qualification

  • Semey Medical University, also known as:
  • State Medical University Semey
  • Semipalatinsk State Medical Academy
  • Semipalatinsk State Medical Institute

For all doctors who completed the five year ‘Bachelor of Healthcare in General Medicine’ qualification

Liberia 

  • Saint Luke School of Medicine

Saint Lucia

  • Atlantic University School of Medicine

  • Spartan Health Sciences University (where course of study began on or before 31 December 2008)

  • St Mary’s Medical School

Senegal

  • St Christopher Ibrahima Mar Diop College of Medicine (for students who graduated before 2003)

  • St Christopher Ibrahima Mar Diop College of Medicine – UK campus
Serbia
  •  University of Nis (for students who completed their studies prior to 2006)

Seychelles 

  • University of Seychelles American Institute of Medicine (USAIM)

Ukraine

  • Lugansk State Medical University located in Lugansk (students who began or completed their studies after 30 September 2014)

  • Crimea State Medical University named after S I Georgievsky (students who began their studies after 1 March 2014)

  • Crimean Medical Institute (students who began their studies after 1 March 2014)

  • Vernadsky Crimean Federal University S.I. Georgievsky Medical Academy (students who began their studies after 1 March 2014)

  • Dnipro Medical Institute of Traditional and Non-Traditional Medicine

  • European Medical University (new name for Dnipro Medical Institute of Traditional and Non-Traditional Medicine)

  • V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (for any students that have completed the course in less than 6 years based on having a previous non-medical degree)

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