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South Africa's Health Professions Council (HPCSA) arrested and brought to court 49 bogus practitioners in the 2024/25 financial year and a further 20 in 2025/2…
📍 Johannesburg, South Africa
Serbia's public universities are legitimate, EU-oriented institutions, and Kragujevac's Faculty of Medical Sciences is a real medical faculty. That is what mak…
📍 Kragujevac, Serbia
In September 2018, Gulf News reported that the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties had discovered that a man who had worked for around ten years as a urolo…
📍 Al Qassim, Saudi Arabia
The International University of the Health Sciences (IUHS) is chartered and licensed in Saint Kitts and Nevis, listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools…
📍 Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Romania's public medical universities are among Europe's most established destinations for foreign students, with English- and French-language programmes that …
📍 Arad, Romania
Poland's medical universities — Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Lublin, Gdańsk and others — run long-established English-language divisions and are among Europe's most…
📍 Warsaw, Poland
The Philippines is one of the largest destinations for Indian medical students — English-medium, US-pattern MD programmes, a large Indian community — and its a…
📍 Manila, Philippines
Nigeria sends tens of thousands of students abroad for medicine — to Ukraine before the war, to Russia, Cyprus, the Caribbean, India, China — and receives them…
📍 Abuja, Nigeria
Mexico has a large, legitimate medical-education system that trains thousands of foreign students, particularly from the United States. It also has a long-runn…
📍 Mexico City, Mexico
Kyrgyzstan sells itself as the affordable option — "easier admissions than Russia", low fees, English-medium programmes — and it has real universities that gra…
📍 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Most cases on this site are about a student being defrauded. Iraq's is about what happens to a health system when the fraud is the other way round — when enoug…
📍 Baghdad, Iraq
Iran's medical entrance examination is among the most competitive in the world, Turkish universities are a short flight away and teach medicine in English, and…
📍 Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
When Barbados arrested the operators of Washington University of Barbados in October 2018, the trail led next door. According to reporting collected by Guyanes…
📍 Georgetown, Guyana
Ghana's regulator has had to warn the public twice over — once about medical schools inside the country, and once about medical degrees coming into it. In Febr…
📍 Accra, Ghana
Germany does not have a fake-medical-school problem. It has an intermediary problem, and the institutions that receive students have said so themselves. The Ge…
📍 Germany
Georgia became one of the fastest-growing destinations for medical students in the world in the space of three years, and its agent problem grew with it. Georg…
📍 Tbilisi State Medical University Faculty of Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia
The offshore medical-school scandal that still shapes how the United States treats foreign graduates is forty years old, and every pattern on this site was alr…
📍 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
China is one of the largest destinations for foreign medical students in the world, and its rules for them are unusually explicit. That makes the agent behavio…
📍 China
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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