Medical training requirements

  1. Summary
  2. Our criteria for acceptable overseas qualifications
  3. Overseas medical qualifications we do not accept
  4. Overseas medical qualifications we may accept
  1. Qualifications not listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools
  2. Medical training requirements
  3. Glossary

To be acceptable to us, your primary medical qualification must have been awarded after a programme of study that was made up of at least 5,500 hours and lasted at least three years.

A programme of study is the course of study followed by each individual applicant leading to their qualification and does not include study at an institution:

  • where you were considered unsuitable to qualify as a doctor
  • where you were refused graduation
  • where you were offered an alternative degree title
  • that isn’t acceptable to us
  • that wasn’t acceptable to us at the time of your studies there. 
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