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Iraq accredits medical colleges one by one through its National Council for Accreditation of Medical Colleges (NCAMC), which the World Federation for Medical E…
📍 Ibn Sina University of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq
Al-Azhar University was founded in 972 and took its present status in 1961. The World Higher Education Database lists Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education as i…
📍 Al-Azhar University Faculty of Medicine for Boys, Cairo, Egypt
Senegal regulates its doctors through the Ordre des médecins, and the rule Thieysenegal restated when it reported this case is simple: only practitioners who h…
📍 Dakar, Senegal
Under Article 37 of Burkina Faso's law 028-2012, nobody may practise medicine without being entered on the roll of the Order of Physicians. In the capital, reg…
📍 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Al-Azhar University's Faculty of Medicine for Girls, on the Nasr City campus in Cairo, admits women only. It sits inside a religious university reorganised und…
📍 Al-Azhar University Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Cairo, Egypt
Angola trains far fewer doctors than it needs. In 2018 Novo Jornal put the figure at about 6,400 doctors for roughly 28 million people, so many Angolans study …
📍 Luanda, Angola
Dakar's private medical universities take students from neighbouring countries as well as from Senegal itself, and the training is long. As the Senegalese pres…
📍 Dakar, Senegal
Dakar is the centre of Senegal's medical training and hospital system, and Abass Ndao is one of the capital's public hospitals. An operating theatre is meant t…
📍 Dakar, Senegal
Pakistan's private medical colleges answer to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), and what they may charge has been in two high courts since 2025. …
📍 C.M.H. Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan
Mali trains doctors in Bamako and sends many more abroad, and a neighbour with a stethoscope, a box of medicines and a rubber stamp can pass for a physician fo…
📍 Bamako, Mali
In Cameroon the right to practise medicine rests on one document: entry on the roll of the Ordre national des médecins du Cameroun, the professional Order that…
📍 Yaoundé, Cameroon
Some 24,000 students from African and Arab countries had been studying at Sudanese universities, according to the Middle East Studies Association's Committee o…
📍 Sudan International University Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan
According to Factly, citing NBEMS data, China alone accounted for almost 30 per cent of all candidates who sat India's FMGE screening test since 2012. The Emba…
📍 Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Portugal's doctors register with the Ordem dos Médicos, then enter the Internato Médico, post-degree training run by the health ministry's ACSS in Serviço Naci…
📍 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Medicina, Sintra, Portugal
Assiut University is a public university in Upper Egypt, about 375 km south of Cairo. Times Higher Education records it as the region's first university, found…
📍 Assiut University Faculty of Medicine, Assiut, Egypt
According to Lusa, citing the Ordem dos Médicos de Moçambique in June 2025, Mozambique trains more than 200 doctors a year at six universities, about 6,100 doc…
📍 Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia de Moçambique Escola Superior de Ciências da Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique
Iraq's medical schools answer to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR), which licenses private universities under Law No. 13 of 199…
📍 University of Al-Ameed College of Medicine, Karbala, Iraq
On paper, Libya passes the first test a foreign student is told to apply. The national accreditor, the National Center for Quality Assurance and Accreditation …
📍 University of Tripoli Faculty of Medicine, Tripoli, Libya
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