General Medicine (MUDr.), taught in English

About the course

This six-year Medical Doctor (MUDr.) degree is taught in English at Charles University’s First Faculty of Medicine in Prague. The first three years cover theoretical and pre-clinical subjects, and the last three years are clinical. About 800 international students study on the faculty’s English-taught programmes.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• The university assesses the Irish Leaving Certificate individually and does not publish a fixed Irish requirement. Contact admissions to confirm. After you pass the entrance exam, you must prove you have completed secondary school by having your school-leaving certificate assessed by the faculty (nostrification). In the 2026 cycle, hard copies of your documents were due by 31 August.
• Round 1 is a paper-based written test lasting 90 minutes. It has single-best-answer questions in Biology, Chemistry and General Science (data interpretation, graphs and maths problem-solving): 75 points in total, 25 per subject, with no negative marking. Round 2 is five online Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) of 10 minutes each, worth up to 20 points each (100 in total). The faculty says only the Round 2 score decides who is admitted.
• For 2026/27 the faculty did not require an English language certificate.

Working in Ireland afterwards

Because your medical degree comes from an EU/EEA country, the Medical Council of Ireland can recognise it automatically under EU Directive 2005/36/EC, as long as it is listed in Annex V (point 5.1.1). If that listing says the degree must come with an internship or state-exam certificate from your home country, you need to have that too, and you must also show your current professional standing and meet the English-language requirements. Graduates of EU/EEA medical schools may apply to the HSE for Irish intern posts, but only if their home-country degree does not already count as complete training. In older HSE intern guides (e.g., the 2022 guide), only graduates from medical schools in Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Iceland and Slovenia could apply. Graduates from other EEA countries (and Italians holding the ‘abilitante’ degree) were told they are not eligible, because they qualify directly for General registration. Applicants who need no work permit were matched before those who do. Please check the current eligibility list in the HSE intern guide for the year you apply. We could not confirm it for the July 2027 intake because the current HSE guide pages are password-protected.

How to apply

1. Apply onlineApply through the Charles University admissions portal and pay the EUR 285 application fee. In the 2026 cycle applications ran from 1 Dec 2025 to 5 Sep 2026. You can apply only once per academic year.
2. Sit the written testTake the 90-minute Biology, Chemistry and General Science test. The 2026 Prague dates were 8 June and 16 September, with 23 September as an additional date. You could also sit it at a listed test centre abroad, such as London.
3. Complete the MMI interviewsDo five 10-minute online Multiple Mini Interviews, usually within a week of the written test. The MMI score decides who is admitted.
4. Confirm your place and enrolConfirm your place (the 2026 deadline was 10 August). Have your Leaving Certificate assessed and pay the CZK 990 fee, send hard copies of your documents (due 31 August in 2026), and pay the full EUR 24,250 tuition fee before you enrol.

Costs

• EUR 24,250 per year for the English-taught programme, which is charged to EU students as well. The faculty says the full fee must be paid before enrolment, with no instalments. There is also an application fee of EUR 285, which you must pay before you can sit the entrance exam, and a CZK 990 fee (about EUR 40) to have your school-leaving certificate assessed. These figures are for 2026/27. Fees for 2027/28 have not been published yet.

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