General Medicine (MD programme, MUDr.), taught in English

About the course

A six-year, full-time medical degree taught in English that leads to the title Doctor of General Medicine (MUDr./MD). Years 1 to 3 cover theory and practical work at the Plzeňská campus. Years 4 to 6 are block clinical rotations at Motol and Homolka University Hospitals in Prague.

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. You need completed secondary education with a final leaving examination. The Leaving Certificate is not on the faculty’s list of qualifications that exempt you from the entrance exam, so Irish applicants should expect to sit it. For authentication, Irish documents are listed under apostille. As an EU country, Ireland may instead use an authenticated copy if the school confirms your results, sends them to the faculty directly, or the results can be checked on the school’s website.
• Entrance exam: a 90-minute written test of 75 questions (20 Biology, 20 Chemistry, 20 Physics, 15 Logic) at secondary-school level, with a maximum of 225 points. The applicants with the best test scores are invited to an interview with a three-member panel (maximum 90 points). There you discuss two randomly drawn topics and show your interest in medicine. Places go to the highest total scores, within the programme’s capacity.
• English: the faculty says English proficiency is assessed as part of the exam or through documents. No specific test or score is published.

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 onlineBetween 1 November 2026 and 30 April 2027, apply for English-taught General Medicine on the Charles University Student Information System. Upload your school documents and pay the 2,500 CZK application fee and the 990 CZK education-assessment fee.
2. Choose an exam dateRegister for the entrance exam by 30 April 2027. Choose Prague on 3 June 2027 or 22 July 2027, or a listed location abroad such as London on 2 July 2027.
3. Sit the test and interviewTake the written test in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Logic. If your score is high enough, you will be invited to an interview. Use the faculty’s published topics and sample questions to prepare.
4. Submit your Leaving Certificate and enrolSend your authenticated Leaving Certificate (apostille, or an authenticated copy where the faculty allows it) by the exam date. For the 2026 cycle, the final deadline was 31 August. The faculty’s pages give different enrolment timings (early September on one page; the end of September or start of October on another), so confirm the date after you are admitted. Teaching begins in the autumn.

Costs

• 420,000 CZK per academic year for students enrolling in 2026/27 (about EUR 17,100; the euro figure is approximate and moves with the exchange rate). The programme is fee-paying, so the fee applies to EU students too. The faculty says fees are set for each academic year and may vary by year of enrolment, and they do not cover living costs. One-off costs: a 2,500 CZK application fee (about EUR 100) and a 990 CZK fee (about EUR 40) for the faculty’s assessment of your foreign secondary-school qualification.

At a glance