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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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Türkiye attracts students from South Asia, Africa and the Middle East for medical degrees, and many foreign nationals living there look for healthcare in their…
📍 Bursa, Turkey
Egypt's universities and institutes train large numbers of doctors and allied-health professionals and draw students from across Africa and the Middle East for…
📍 Cairo, Egypt
Egypt is one of the largest medical-training destinations in Africa and the Middle East, and Cairo University's Qasr Al-Aini Faculty of Medicine is a name many…
📍 Cairo, Egypt
In Syria, medical practice is supervised at provincial level by the health directorates of the Ministry of Health, while the Doctors' Syndicate holds the profe…
📍 Raqqa, Syrian Arab Republic
Romania's medical degrees are recognised across the European Union, and students from South Asia and Africa consider it. Two documents stand between a foreign-…
📍 Bucharest, Romania
In Brazil a medical degree on its own gives nobody the right to practise. Graduates must register with the Conselho Regional de Medicina (CRM) of the state whe…
📍 Teresina, Brazil
Canada regulates nurses province by province. In Ontario the College of Nurses of Ontario keeps the register, and anyone can look up a name and see whether a l…
📍 Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The Netherlands keeps one public register of licensed health professionals, the BIG register, and anyone who is not in it may not call themselves a doctor. You…
📍 Roosendaal, Netherlands
Mexico licenses doctors through the cédula profesional, a licence number issued by the federal education ministry, the SEP, and searchable on its public regist…
📍 Querétaro, Mexico
Argentina records its licensed health professionals in SISA, the national health-information system, and that register is the first thing a hospital, patient o…
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Russia is a popular destination for medical students from South Asia and Africa, and anyone who later asks a home regulator to recognise a Russian diploma depe…
📍 Novocherkassk, Russian Federation
In the United States a doctor is licensed state by state, and every prescriber carries a National Provider Identifier, the NPI number pharmacies and insurers u…
📍 Baton Rouge, United States of America
Kyrgyzstan is one of the most popular destinations for Indian students who miss a government MBBS seat at home. A presidential decree gave the state a monopoly…
📍 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Sri Lanka has one statutory register of medical practitioners, kept by the Sri Lanka Medical Council, and only a person named on it may lawfully treat patients…
📍 Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
Bangladesh licenses its doctors through the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council, and no institution may award a degree without University Grants Commission a…
📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh
In Bangladesh the regulator of doctors is the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council, the BMDC. A foreign medical graduate must pass its Registration Qualifying…
📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh
For Indian students who miss a government medical seat at home and look to Kazakhstan, the Embassy of India in Astana publishes advisories and a list of licens…
📍 Astana, Kazakhstan
Pakistan's medical regulator is the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, which works under the PM&DC Act 2022. Doctors must be on its register to practise, and…
📍 Islamabad, Pakistan
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