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Medical education in Tanzania sits under two layers of authority. The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) regulates institutions and their academic rule…
📍 St. Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza, Tanzania, United Republic of
Hospital Central de Maputo (HCM) is the central hospital of Mozambique's capital, and its adult emergency service, the Banco de Socorro, receives patients from…
📍 Maputo, Mozambique
In Zambia, health practitioners and health facilities are licensed by the Health Professions Council of Zambia, the HPCZ, the body to check before trusting any…
📍 Lusaka, Zambia
Indonesia registers its doctors through the Indonesian Medical Council, the KKI, which runs a public doctor-check website; a physician also needs a registratio…
📍 Sleman, Indonesia
Pattaya, in Thailand's Chon Buri province, treats many foreign residents and visitors. A doctor there must be registered with the Medical Council of Thailand, …
📍 Pattaya, Thailand
Malaysia's public hospitals are run by the Ministry of Health (MOH), and anyone practising as a doctor there must be registered with the Malaysian Medical Coun…
📍 Serdang, Malaysia
In the Philippines, the right to practise as a physician comes from the Professional Regulation Commission, which licenses doctors under the Medical Act of 195…
📍 Iloilo City, Philippines
Taiwan licenses its doctors under the Physicians Act. Article 28, as the Central News Agency (CNA) noted when reporting this case, punishes unlicensed practice…
📍 Lukang, Taiwan
Australia regulates its doctors through a single national scheme. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Ahpra, keeps the public register for th…
📍 Sydney, Australia
Singapore is usually described as one of the most tightly regulated places in the world to practise medicine, and a 2025 court case shows that the checking is …
📍 Singapore
Japan is usually thought of as a country where nobody practises medicine without the right papers. A doctor needs a national licence under the Medical Practiti…
📍 Osaka, Japan
In Vietnam, a doctor's right to see patients runs through the provincial Department of Health, and most routine consultations are paid for by the state health-…
📍 Ca Mau, Viet Nam
South Korea is one of the harder countries in which to practise medicine on a foreign degree; the single seat that Inha University's medical school keeps for f…
📍 Daegu, Korea, Republic of
In South Korea a medical degree does not allow anyone to practise. The graduate must pass a separate national licensing examination and hold a licence issued b…
📍 Suwon, Korea, Republic of
Iraq's wider problem with bought and forged degrees is recorded elsewhere on this site. In August 2024 the Parliamentary Health and Environment Committee and t…
📍 Amarah, Iraq
In Egypt, two separate records stand between a patient and a person in a white coat. The Ministry of Health and Population licenses the facility, through its C…
📍 Cairo, Egypt
In Tunisia the right to practise medicine, and the narrower right to practise a particular speciality, both run through the Conseil National de l'Ordre des Méd…
📍 Tunis, Tunisia
In Algeria, as in most countries, a person may treat patients and write prescriptions only with a recognised medical diploma and official authorisation. A doct…
📍 Algiers, Algeria
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