Medicine (long-cycle Master’s), English Division

About the course

A six-year medical degree taught in English in the university’s English Division. Students do a one-month hospital placement after each year up to fifth year, covering areas such as nursing care, family and emergency medicine, internal medicine, surgery and paediatrics/obstetrics.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• There is no entrance exam for Irish Leaving Cert applicants: you are ranked on Biology (compulsory) plus one of Chemistry, Mathematics or Physics, with up to 150 points per subject and 300 in total. The 2027/28 rules convert Irish grades on an 8-point scale: grade 1 = 100, 2 = 88, 3 = 75, 4 = 63, 5 = 50, 6 = 38, 7 and 8 = 0. Advanced-level results are multiplied by 1.5 and elementary-level results by 1.0, but the rules do not say how Leaving Cert Higher and Ordinary Level are treated. You need at least 30 points in each subject and at least 100 in total. In 2025/26 the last candidate admitted had 105 points.
• English: you need a B2 certificate (for example IELTS 5.5 or TOEFL iBT 72). EU citizens with an Irish school-leaving certificate whose secondary schooling was taught in English are exempt. The entrance exam applies only to certain non-EU applicants.

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. Check your subjectsTake Biology plus one of Chemistry, Mathematics or Physics for the Leaving Cert and aim for strong grades, since you are ranked on these two subjects.
2. Register in IRKWhen the 2027/28 schedule opens, create an account in the university’s online recruitment system (IRK), choose Medicine in English, choose a tuition payment plan and pay the PLN 85 application fee.
3. Upload documentsUpload your Leaving Cert with a sworn Polish translation, the signed application form printed from IRK, your passport or EU ID card, and a notarised parental form if required.
4. Confirm your placeIf you are conditionally accepted, pay the tuition fee and submit your original certificate (or a notarised copy of an apostilled certificate) by the deadline given in the schedule.

Costs

• PLN 67,900 a year for 2026/27 (roughly EUR 15,900; the university charges in Polish zloty, so the euro figure moves with the exchange rate). The English-language programme is fee-paying, so Irish and other EU students pay it too. You can pay in one, two or four instalments; paying in two instalments adds 2.5% and paying in four adds 3.5%. From 2025/26 fees may be indexed each year in line with the previous year’s consumer price index. There is also a one-off application fee of PLN 85 (about EUR 20) for EU applicants.

At a glance