Postgraduate Medical Study In Romania

Medical Specialisation in Romania

Medical specialisations in Romania provide resident physicians with knowledge and abilities required for highly qualified medical professional specialists. Resident physicians or residents are licensed doctors who have internships in University-owned hospitals (or in other hospitals/services in agreement with Universities), under the supervision of tutors (Head of the Department) belonging to medical staffs of these hospitals (or services), following a pacificate programs.
Specialisation in Medicine in Romania (Medical Postgraduate, Specialisation/ residency studies) involve more than 80% clinical work (hospital work interacting with patients, professors and hospital professionals).
Resident doctor or resident physician, resident trainee is a graduate and licensed physician learning a specialty through in-hospital training, with the supervision of the Head of the Department.
To get into medical residency, candidate must meet both academic (degree of Doctor of medicine or Dental Medicine) and language (at least B2 level of Romanian language) requirements.

Applying for specialisation (residency) program in Romania

Non-EU/EEA and Suisse resident candidates
Prior to final registration to the residency program in Romania, all prospective postgraduate medical residents are required first to enrol for the compulsory Romanian language preparatory year and it is their responsibility to learn Romanian and obtain a certificate of completion of Romanian for academic purpose (B2 level).
After getting the Romanian language certificate, International prospective postgraduate medical residents in Romania from non-EU/EEA country can register to specialisation based on his acceptance letter, high school and university diploma and academic records, Romanian language certificate, copy of passport, birth certificate, medical certificate and payment of tuition fee. They are only enrolled in the self-supported fee-based form of study by application file selection.

EU/EEA and Suisse resident candidates,
EU/EEA and Suisse postgraduate medical students, after getting Romanian language certificate, must comply with the same legal requirements as Romanian citizens (Law 316/2006), and have to take the residency exam.
The exam is organised in Romanian language by the main medical universities in Romania (UMF Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Targu Mures, Timisoara and Craiova). Those who pass successfully y exam are enrolled based on their results and available places per each specialisation.

Medical postgraduate specialisation in Romania

Medical specialisation in Romania are available in Medicine (Clinical specialties, Surgical specialties, Paraclinical specialties), Dentistry, pharmacy,etc.

List of Medical Specialisation in Medicine in Romania and their duration (tears):

       Clinical specialties:

1. Clinical allergology and immunology: 5 years
2. Anaesthesia and intensive care: 5 years
3. Infectious diseases: 5 years
4. Cardiology: 6 years
5. Paediatric cardiology: 5 years
6. Dermato - venereology: 5 years
7. Diabetes, nutrition and metabolic diseases: 5 years
8. Endocrinology: 5 years
9. Medical expertise of work capability: 4 years
10. Clinical pharmacology: 4 years
11. Gastroenterology: 5 years 
12. Paediatric gastroenterology: 5 years 
13. Medical genetics: 4 years
14. Geriatrics and gerontology 5 years    
15. Haematology: 5 years
16. Family medicine: 4 years
17. Emergency medicine: 5 years 
18. Internal medicine: 5 years
19. Physical and rehabilitation medicine: 5 years
20. Labour medicine: 4 years
21. Sports medicine: 4 years
22. Nephrology: 5 years
23. Paediatric nephrology: 5 years
24. Neonatology: 5 years
25. Neurology: 5 years
26. Paediatric neurology: 5 years
27. Medical oncology: 5 years       
28. Paediatric oncology and haematology: 5 years  
29. Paediatrics: 5 years 
30. Pneumology: 5 years   
31. Paediatric pneumolgy: 5 years
32. Psychiatry: 5 years
33. Paediatric psychiatry: 5 years        
34. Radiotherapy: 4 years
35. Rheumatology: 5 years

      Surgical specialties:

1. Cardiovascular surgery: 6 years
2. General surgery: 6 years
3. Oral and maxillo-facial surgery: 5 years
4. Paediatric surgery: 5 years
5. Plastic surgery, aesthetic surgery and reconstructive microsurgery: 6 years
6. Thoracic surgery: 6 years
7. Vascular surgery: 5 years 
8. Neurosurgery: 6 years
9. Obstetrics - gynaecology: 5 years
10. Ophthalmology: 4 years
11. Paediatric orthopaedics: 6 years
12. Orthopaedics and traumatology: 5 years
13. Otorhinolaryngology: 5 years
14. Urology: 5 years

    Paraclinical specialties:

1. Pathological anatomy: 5 years 
2. Epidemiology: 4 years   
3. Hygiene: 4 years  
4. Laboratory medicine: 4 years 
5. Legal medicine: 4 years
6. Nuclear medicine: 4 years
7. Medical microbiology: 4 years
8. Radiology and medical imaging: 5 years    
9. Public health and management: 4 years

Medical Specialisation in Dentistry in Romania

1. Dento-alveolar surgery: 3 years
2. Orthodontics and dento-facial orthopaedics: 3 years
3. Endodontics: 3 years
4. Parodontology: 3 years
5. Dental prosthesis:3 years
6. Paedodontics: 3 years.

Medical Specialisation in Pharmcy in Romania

       Residency program in Pharmacy

1. Clinical pharmacy: 3 years
2. Pharmaceutical laboratory: 3 years

       PhD programs in Pharmacy

1. Discipline Drug analysis
2. Discipline Pharmaceutical biochemistry and clinical laboratory
3. Discipline Pharmaceutical botany
4. Discipline Analytical chemistry
5. Discipline Organic chemistry
6. Discipline Pharmaceutical chemistry
7. Discipline Pharmacology
8. Discipline Pharmaceutical legislation
9. Discipline Pharmaceutical technology and bio pharmacy
10. Discipline Toxicology

Application to medical residency in Romania

To apply to medical specialisation in Romania, prospective specialist must have an university diploma obtained after at least 6 year university studies of medicine or dentistry and 5 year university studies of pharmacy  from accredited  university. More than that, the applicant must speak or be ready to learn Romanian.

The list of documents required to get into postgraduate medical specialisation in Romania include:

• Certified copy of the Baccalaureate Diploma or equivalent (high school leaving certificate) and university diploma;
• Certified copy of university academic records;
• Certified copy of the Birth Certificate;
• A medical certificate specifying that the candidate does not have any mental, contagious  or any other diseases incompatible with medical profession and so prove the applicant's state health;
• Certified copy of Passport;
• Applicant's CV;
• 4 recent photos (type passport);
• Application form for diploma recognition (EU, EEA or Suisse applicant) - 2 copies;

All those documents must be in English, French or Romanian otherwise, they must be translated in one of those languages. Each translated copies must be accompanied with a simple copy of original document. The translated copies or copies of original documents (if in English, French or Romanian), have to be certified by Minister of foreigner affaire and Romanian Diplomatic Mission or Apostille of Hague Convention or at least by any other competent authorities.

Resident training contracts

According to Romanian legislation for residency program training, during residency period, doctors from EU/EEA receive a monthly salary as Romanian resident doctor. Doctors from non-EU/EEA are not paid but must pay annually fee varying between 6000 and 7700 Euros/year, depending on university and choosen speciality.
The advantage for non-European candidate to residency programs in Romania, is that they have the full right to choose the speciality without any competition. Do you want to become cardiologist, ophthalmologist, surgery, etc. and you have financial means and motivation? Why then do not become who you want to be instead of becoming somebody else because you cannot get into the right medical speciality for you?