Using your primary medical qualification
- Summary
- Using your IELTS certificate
- Using your OET certificate
- Using your primary medical qualification
We can sometimes accept your primary medical qualification as evidence of your knowledge of English.
Is your primary medical qualification from an acceptable institution?
If your primary medical qualification was awarded by a university on the list below, you can't use it as evidence. You will need to submit other evidence as detailed in this guide.
If your awarding body does not appear on the list, we may accept your degree as evidence of your knowledge of English if it meets the criteria below.
––Below are the universities we don't accept evidence of English language proficiency from.
Country | University |
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Aruba |
Xavier University School of Medicine |
Bahrain |
Arabian Gulf University |
Bangladesh |
Dhaka Medical College |
Belarus |
Belarusian State Medical University Grodno State Medical University Vitebsk State Order of People’s Friendship Medical University |
Bulgaria |
Medical University Pleven |
China |
Bei Hua University |
Croatia |
University of Zagreb |
Czech Republic |
Charles University in Prague |
Dominican Republic |
Instituto Tecnologica de Santo Domingo |
Dubai |
Dubai Medical College for Girls |
Dutch Caribbean |
Saba University School of Medicine |
Egypt |
Ain Shams University |
Ethiopia |
Hayat Medical College |
Gambia |
University of Gambia – School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (SMAHS) |
Georgia |
Caucasus International University Faculty of Medicine |
Ghana |
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
Hungary |
Debreceni Orvostudomanyi Egyetem University |
India |
Baba Farid University of Health Sciences – Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University B.J. Medical College – University of Pune Bundelkhand University Dr D.Y. Patil Medical College – Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Dr NTR University of Health Sciences – Deccan College of Medical Sciences Dr NTR University of Health Sciences – Guntur Medical College Dr NTR University of Health Sciences – MNR Medical College Dr NTR University of Health Sciences - Narayana Medical College Dr NTR University of Health Sciences - Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences Dr NTR University of Health Sciences – Sri Venkataeswara Medical College Dr MGR Medical University – Vinayaka Mission’s Kircupananda Variyar Medical College Kashmir University – Government Medical College Srinagar Kasturba Medical College Mangalore Kasturba Medical College Manipal Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute – Pondicherry University NTR University of Health Sciences – Narayana Medical College (India) N.K.P Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital Rajah Muthiah Medical College – Annamalai University Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences - Al-Ameen Medical College Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences – Father Muller Medical College Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences – MVJ Medical College and Research Hospital Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences – Mysore Medical College Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences – Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences SKIMS Medical College Hospital S.R.M. Medical College Hospital and Research Centre SMT. Kashibai Navale Medical College – Maharashtra University of Health Sciences |
Iraq |
Al-Nahrain University |
Italy |
Universita degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II University of Pavia Universita degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" |
Jordan |
Hashemite University |
Kazakhstan |
Semey State Medical University |
Kenya | University of Nairobi |
Kuwait |
University of Kuwait |
Kyrgyzstan |
I.k. Akhunbaev Kyrgyz State Medical Academy |
Latvia |
Rigas Stradina Universitate |
Lebanon |
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center |
Lithuania |
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences |
Libya |
Al-Arab Medical University |
Malawi |
MAHSA University |
Malaysia |
Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences |
Mauritius | Anna Medical College |
Moldova |
Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova |
Myanmar |
University of Medicine 1 Yangon |
Namibia |
University of Namibia School of Medicine |
Nepal |
Nepalese Army Institute of Health Science |
Nigeria |
Abia State University Ahmadu Bello University Babcock University, Benjamin S Carson School of Medicine Bayero University University of Benin Bingham University Bowen University College of Health Sciences Delta State University Enugu State University Igbinedion University Imo State University Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Lagos State University Madonna University Nnamdi Azikwe University Obafemi Awolowo University Olabisi Onabanjo University University of Ibadan University of Calabar University of Ilorin University of Jos University of Lagos – College of Medicine University of Port Harcourt University of Nigeria University of Uyo Usmanu Danfodiyo University |
Oman |
Oman Medical College College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University |
Pakistan |
Abbottabad International Medical College |
Palestinian Territories |
Al-Quds University |
Philippines |
Bicol Christian College of Medicine |
Poland |
Jagiellonian University |
Romania |
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest |
Russian Federation |
Kazan State Medical University |
Saudi Arabia |
Alfaisal University |
Serbia |
University of Belgrade School of Medicine |
Slovakia |
Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave |
Sri Lanka |
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University University of Peradeniva University of Ruhuna |
Sudan |
Academy of Medical Sciences & Technology |
Tanzania |
Hubert Kairuki Memorial University |
Turkey |
Altinbas University |
Taiwan |
I-Shou University school of medicine for international students |
Uganda |
Makerere University |
Ukraine |
Bukovian State Medical Academy Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Dnipro Medical Institute of Traditional and Non-Traditional Medicine Donetsk State Medical University Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University I. Ya. Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University Kharkiv National Medical University Lugansk State Medical University Odessa State Medical University O O Bogomolets Natonal Medical University Sumy State University Vinnica Medical University V.N Karazin Kharkiv National University |
United Arab Emirates |
Dubai Medical College for Girls |
Zambia | University of Zambia |
Zimbabwe |
University of Zimbabwe |
Please note that if your awarding body does not appear on the list, it does not mean that we will accept a letter from it as evidence of English. We will assess it and may accept it as evidence of your knowledge of English if it meets the criteria below.
When can you use your primary medical qualification as acceptable evidence?
We may accept your primary medical qualification if it:
- is less than two years old when you apply for registration, and
- was taught and examined solely in English.
You'll need to email us a letter or certificate from your university or medical college that confirms:
- all of the course, including clinical activities, was taught and examined solely in English
- at least 75% of any course related clinical interaction, including personal contact with patients, their families and other healthcare professionals, was conducted in English i.e. without any translation support
- the date you passed your final exam
Please email this letter or certificate to us with confirmation of whether you have taken the academic IELTS test or the OET (medicine version). If you have, please provide your Test Report Form if you’ve sat IELTS, or your candidate number if you’ve sat OET.
Also, if you sat your final exam more than two years ago you’ll need to email us references from all your employers for the last two years confirming your English language capability.
We'll only accept references from countries where the first and native language is English.
You do not need to provide us with the above evidence if:
- You are applying for registration as a national of a country that appears on our list of countries that we accept as using English as the first and native language, and
- You were awarded your Primary Medical Qualification by a university in a country that also appears on the list of countries we accept as using English as the first and native language.
If you can't meet these criteria, you can't use your primary medical qualification as evidence of your knowledge of English. Keep reading this guide to see if you can submit other evidence. Or you may wish to sit either IELTS or the OET.