Medicine, Programme in English (6-year MD)

About the course

A six-year, 12-semester full-time Medicine degree (single long-cycle master’s, Medical Doctor degree) taught in English at Rzeszów’s Collegium Medicum. It moves from pre-clinical science to clinical training, with practical classes in hospitals, skills training in a Medical Simulation Centre and extended clinical rotations in the final year.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• Applicants are ranked on two subjects chosen from Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. The university’s Irish conversion table (Leaving Certificate Established and LCVP) gives Higher Level H1 200, H2 172, H3 144, H4 116, H5 88 and H6 60 points, and Ordinary Level O1 100, O2 86, O3 72, O4 58, O5 44 and O6 30 points. Grades 7 and 8 score 0. No minimum grade or cut-off is published.
• The online Biology and Chemistry entrance test (20 questions, 30 minutes on Testportal) is only for applicants whose school qualifications are not from an EU, OECD or EFTA country, so Irish Leaving Certificate holders do not sit it.
• The admission criteria require B2 English, but the university’s English proficiency page says EU citizens do not need to prove it. Other applicants can use, for example, IELTS 5.5, TOEFL iBT 72, PTE Academic 59 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. Create an accountRegister on the university’s online recruitment system (rekrutacja.ur.edu.pl), enter your personal and education details, choose Medicine in English and upload a 35 x 45 mm photo.
2. Pay the admission feePay the 85 PLN admission fee to the individual sub-account shown in the system; it takes about 3 working days to arrive. In the 2026 cycle the deadline was 25 September 2026.
3. Upload your Leaving CertificateUpload scans of your Leaving Certificate results and the other documents required from holders of foreign qualifications. Your grades in two of Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Maths are converted to points using the Irish table.
4. Qualify and enrolCheck your status in the system. Once it says qualified, the Faculty Recruitment Team tells you when and where to hand in your documents. You also need a medical examination before starting.

Costs

• €14,500 a year (€7,250 a semester; €87,000 for the full 12 semesters) for students starting in 2026/27, fixed for the whole cycle under Rector’s Regulation No. 34/2026. The university says all English-taught programmes are fee-paying for all candidates, so EU citizens pay too. There is also an admission fee of 85 PLN (about €20) for each programme you apply to, refundable only in limited cases. The 2027/28 fee has not yet been published.

At a glance