#SFHH2615937AOrder Opening the 2026 Knowledge Verification Exams for Health Professionals
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This order opens the 2026 knowledge verification exams for certain health professionals who need their qualifications assessed before they can practise in France. It mainly affects doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons and midwives applying through the external or internal route. The text sets the number of available places by profession and specialty across France. It opens 1,003 external-route places for doctors and 3,060 internal-route places across medical, pharmacy, dental and midwifery fields. Candidates and healthcare employers should check the relevant specialty quotas and, for the internal route, use the required access form.
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Key Changes
- Opens the 2026 knowledge verification exams for eligible health professionals seeking recognition to practise in France.
- Sets 1,003 external-route places for doctors, with quotas by medical specialty.
- Sets 3,060 internal-route places across medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and midwifery, and includes the access form for internal-route candidates.
Obligations
What this law requires
Candidates applying through the internal route for the 2026 knowledge verification exams must use the internal-route access form and provide their profession, specialty, civil-status details, and current professional-exercise information.
Candidates must apply only within the profession and specialty categories for which posts are opened in the 2026 knowledge verification exams, respecting the national quotas listed for the external or internal route.
Doctors applying through the external route must select one of the listed medical specialties with opened posts; the external route provides 1,003 posts across France.
Doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons, and midwives applying through the internal route must verify that their profession and specialty are included in Annex II before applying; the internal route provides 3,060 posts across France.