Those who apply to practice medicine in Portugal must fulfill two requirements to register with the Portuguese Medical Association: have the course/degree recognized by any of the eight Portuguese medical schools and prove their ability to communicate in Portuguese.
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In the past three years, Portugal approved 42.2% of applications from candidates for doctors from foreign countries, three-quarters of them Brazilian, according to data from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES).
Since 2019 – the year for which there is central data – Portugal has received a total of 1,674 applications to accept foreigners to practice medicine, having awarded 706 (as of December 14, 2021).
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Those who apply to practice medicine in Portugal must fulfill two requirements to register with the Portuguese Medical Association: have the course/degree recognized by any of the eight Portuguese medical schools and prove their ability to communicate in Portuguese.
A doctor from any EU country is automatically recognized in Portugal, under EU legislation – thus, to register with the Ordem dos Médicos, he will only have to take a medical contact test.
Spaniards with the highest success rate
However, for those who come from other places – and despite the fact that the law on recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of higher education awarded by foreign institutions also applies to Andorra, Moldova, Norway, UK, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine – this recognition is conditional, by the entity that It organizes the medical activity, by evaluating the academic, clinical and linguistic knowledge, first guaranteed by the Portuguese medical schools and, later, by the Ordem dos Médicos, with proof of medical contacts.
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Relatively speaking, the foreign candidates for doctors with the highest approval rate are Spaniards (84.4% of applications granted), followed by Ukrainians (78.8%), Germans (70%) and Italians (66.2%).
Of the 74.7% of applications from Brazilians, only 42.7% were approved – despite representing three quarters of the total number of applications approved (706).
In the past three years, all medical candidates from three countries – Cuba, Guinea-Bissau and Venezuela were rejected. Only one of the 29 applications submitted by Angolan nationals was approved.
“The qualification process is carried out entirely by medical schools” and aims to ensure that successful candidates “have recognized knowledge and are proven” to practice “good medicine” in Portugal (or, later, in a community space), with the same “” said the President of the Board of Portuguese Medical Faculties ( CEMP), Henrique Cyrne Carvalho, told Lusa, the “standard of requirements” imposed on national students.
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Source: https://www.bobfm.co.uk/portugal-approves-less-than-half-of-foreign-candidates-for-doctors/