6 Year MD (Medicine) Program, English Division

About the course

A six-year English-taught medical programme leading to the Polish Lekarz (Doctor of Medicine) degree. Years 1 to 3 cover the preclinical sciences, and clinical subjects such as internal medicine, surgery and paediatrics are taught from year 3 to year 6.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• The university turns grades in two science subjects (from Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics) into points using its Irish table: H1 = 100, H2 = 85, H3 = 75, H4 = 65, H5 = 55, H6 = 20, H7 = 10, and H8 or any Ordinary Level grade = 0. You need to reach a threshold that the Admission Committee sets and does not publish. You can apply with mid-term or predicted grades.
• Stage 2 is a 30-minute oral exam online via MS Teams. It has general questions (motivation, socio-medical topics, professional behaviour) and 4 questions in each of two subjects you choose from Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. The questions are descriptive and multiple-choice.
• English: EU citizens educated in an OECD school system do not need an English certificate, and Ireland is an OECD country. Other applicants need an accepted certificate, e.g. IELTS 5.5, TOEFL iBT 72 or Cambridge B2 First.

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. Register onlineCreate an account on registration.umed.lodz.pl (admission opened 15 January in the 2026 cycle). Choose 6MD, submit the form, then upload your school results, passport and photo.
2. Pay the EUR 24 feePay the non-refundable application fee by bank transfer. The Admission Committee checks whether your converted Leaving Cert science points reach the threshold. If they do, your portal status changes to ‘Approved – eligible for entrance exam’.
3. Sit the MS Teams examBook an online oral exam date (sessions began in March in the 2026 cycle). The Admission Office sends the link one working day before your exam.
4. Accept and payIf you pass and your documents are complete, you get a Letter of Acceptance. Pay tuition (or the first instalment within 2 weeks) and finish everything before the deadline (7 September in the 2026 cycle). Classes start on 1 October.

Costs

• EUR 15,100 in first year, then EUR 14,900 a year for years 2 to 6 (figures for October 2026 entry). The FAQ says tuition can be paid in two instalments of EUR 7,550: the first within 2 weeks of your Letter of Acceptance, the second in February. The fee pages list one fee with no separate EU rate, so Irish students pay the full tuition. You pay a non-refundable EUR 24 application fee before the entrance exam, and you must cover any bank transfer charges. Fees for 2027 entry have not been published yet.

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