Medicine, 6-year MD Program (in English)

About the course

This is a 6-year (12-semester) medical degree leading to the Doctor of Medicine, taught in English at PUMS’s Center for Medical Education in English. It accepts both school-leavers and graduates, and clinical subjects build up from the middle years of the course.

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. In general, it asks for a secondary school qualification good enough to get you into university in your home country, with satisfactory grades in at least two of biology, chemistry and maths/physics. One of these must be biology. No minimum grades are published.
• Entrance exam: a 60-minute written quiz with 60 one-best-answer questions on biology, chemistry and physics at school-leaving level. It is followed by an oral exam or interview with professors of about 20-40 minutes, which looks at your science reasoning (mainly about the human body), motivation, interpersonal skills, any healthcare or voluntary experience and your English.
• English: you need proof of English, such as IELTS 6.5, TOEFL iBT 94, TOEFL paper 587, TOEIC 900, PTE Academic 60, LanguageCert C1 or Cambridge Advanced/Proficiency. The university does not mention an exemption for native English speakers, so check with admissions.

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 the PUMS applicant portal (applicant.ump.edu.pl), fill in the application form, upload your school transcripts and pay the 85 PLN processing fee, which also gives you access to practice quizzes.
2. Book the entrance examChoose a 2027 session, for example Dublin on 3-4 July 2027 or Poznań on one of several dates between March and July, and pay the 600 PLN exam and interview fee.
3. Sit the exam and interviewTake the 60-question science quiz and the oral interview in person. The proctors provide a calculator, periodic table and physics formulas.
4. Accept and payIf you pass, send your documents (official transcripts, school-leaving certificate with apostille, English certificate, health certificate, CV, photo and criminal background check) and pay the 4,800 PLN down payment. The application deadline is 20 July 2027 and classes start on 6 September 2027.

Costs

• The university estimates tuition for students starting in 2026/27 at 71,000 PLN a year for years 1 and 2 (about €16,600) and 85,750 PLN a year for years 3 to 6 (about €20,100), or 485,000 PLN in total. The 2027/28 intake fee was not yet published. Euro amounts are approximate conversions. The university publishes one fee for the English programme and does not list a lower EU rate, so Irish students should expect to pay it. The first-year fee is paid in four instalments, starting with a 4,800 PLN down payment by the date given in your acceptance email. There is also an 85 PLN application processing fee, a 600 PLN exam and interview fee, and a 2,000 PLN deposit if you take a place in student housing.

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