91997E1862

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1862/97 by Carlos Pimenta (PPE) to the Commission (30 May 1997)

Subject: Entrance to medical specializations in the European Union

What administrative formalities are required for a graduate in medicine to embark on a medical specialization (e.g. in surgery) in each of the EU Member States, with particular regard to the entrance examinations and the existence or otherwise of a requirement to take a test in the language of the Member State concerned?

Answer given by Mrs Cresson on behalf of the Commission (15 July 1997)

The administrative formalities which are required for a graduate in medicine to embark on a medical specialisation differ from one Member State to another, since they relate to the organisation of systems of study and therefore fall exclusively within domestic jurisdiction.

The Honourable Member may, if he wishes, contact the national academic recognition information centres in the Member States of the European Union and the European Economic Area comprising the NARIC network, for which a list of contact points is being sent direct to the Honourable Member and to the Secretariat of the Parliament.