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Two kinds of story, both first-person and both checked by our team: scam stories — how it started, what was promised, what it cost — and student stories from verified students already abroad, showing the help they provide and what they wish they'd known. Every story is mapped to the college, city and country it concerns. Cases marked 📰 From the news are compiled by our team from published reporting, with sources linked — not first-person accounts.
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In Austria a doctor may only practise once entered on the Ärzteliste, the list of doctors kept by the medical chamber, and an application for entry is made to …
📍 Linz, Austria
In Germany a doctor's right to practise rests on the Approbation, a state licence whose certificate is issued by a Land authority, and on registration with the…
📍 Fritzlar, Germany
France lets doctors with diplomas from outside the European Union practise after passing knowledge examinations and being authorised by the health ministry, th…
📍 Marigot, France
The United Kingdom's medical register is kept by the General Medical Council, and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service can remove a doctor for dishonesty…
📍 King's Lynn, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
In Spain a doctor needs a recognised medical degree, homologation by a ministry if the degree is foreign, and registration with the provincial Colegio de Médic…
📍 Vigo, Spain
Sweden licenses doctors through Socialstyrelsen, the National Board of Health and Welfare, but according to Region Västernorrland a newly qualified graduate ca…
📍 Sundsvall, Sweden
In Italy a doctor must hold a laurea in medicina, pass the state licensing exam and be entered on the register of the provincial Ordine dei medici, which is se…
📍 Bordighera, Italy
In Iran doctors practise under registration with the Medical Council, and a registered doctor's stamp and credentials are what give prescriptions and operation…
📍 Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Kuwait's Ministry of Health licenses doctors and clinics, and government hospitals treat residents with valid papers. The system leaves out a large group: expa…
📍 Farwaniya, Kuwait
In Dubai, a medical or cosmetic practitioner is licensed by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), and the licence can be looked up by anyone on the DHA website or …
📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Yemen's medical profession is overseen by the Ministry of Public Health and the Yemeni Medical Council, but the courts of Aden have become the forum where impe…
📍 Aden, Yemen
Iraq's Doctors' Syndicate licenses physicians and keeps the register that hospitals and patients are supposed to check, and in Najaf its branch has gone furthe…
📍 Najaf, Iraq
Lebanon's medical profession is regulated by the Orders of Physicians in Beirut and Tripoli, and medicines and cosmetic products must be registered with the Mi…
📍 Beirut, Lebanon
In Israel nurses are licensed by the Ministry of Health, and only a licensed nurse may treat patients or hold a nursing post in a hospital. The system assumes …
📍 Ramat Gan, Israel
In Türkiye, a student who transfers from a university abroad into a Turkish medical faculty does so under rules set by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), a…
📍 Osmaniye, Turkey
Türkiye hosts millions of foreign nationals, many of them Syrians, and the right to practise medicine there is tightly controlled: a doctor must hold a diploma…
📍 Mersin, Turkey
Slovakia's Iris case is one of the clearest European examples of what happens when nobody checks a "doctor's" credentials. At a private centre for seniors in B…
📍 Bratislava, Slovakia
Romania's College of Physicians keeps the public register of doctors, and nobody who is not on it may lawfully consult, diagnose or treat patients. Yet in Ilfo…
📍 Bragadiru, Romania
A directory row says "agent X, overcharge". A story says how the WhatsApp group started, what the "university letter" looked like, when the fee changed, and what finally gave it away. That's what makes the next family pause before they transfer money.
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