SINGAPORE MEDICAL COUNCIL
LIST OF REGISTRABLE BASIC MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS
IMPORTANT NOTES:
1. One of the criteria for Provisional and Conditional registration with the Singapore Medical Council
(SMC) is a ‘Primary Qualification' from one of the following medical schools.
2. Only the medical programme from the listed medical schools at the time of addition to the Schedule
is recognised. Any subsequent significant changes to the medical curriculum of the listed medical
school may not be recognised, e.g. GCE Advanced level or Baccalaureate level entry to a Graduate
entry programme.
3. Only the campus that was in existence at the time of addition to the Schedule will be recognised.
Any new campus that is off-site from the recognised main campus, whether in the same country or
a different country and whether the same degree is granted or not, will not be recognised by the
SMC.
4. For twinning programmes, doctors must have undergone the entire duration of their clinical training
and final examinations in a medical school listed in the Schedule, before they can be considered for
provisional or conditional registration in Singapore. Graduates from the Malaysian, US and
Canadian medical schools on the schedule must have undergone the entire medical training on the
main campuses of the respective medical schools – i.e. both pre-clinical and clinical for eligibility
for registration with SMC.
5. Graduates from recognised medical schools listed in the Schedule must pass the relevant national
licensing examinations in the listed country, e.g. in the USA medical graduates must pass the
USMLE and in Canada, they must pass the MCCQE to be registered to practise in Singapore. For
any country that imposes such national licensing conditions on its own medical graduates, the
corresponding conditions will also be required for registration to practise in Singapore.
6. Every application for medical registration will be considered based on its own merits.
7. The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) would like to highlight that International Medical Graduates
who do not hold qualifications which are recognised by the SMC, will not be eligible to apply for
medical registration to practise in Singapore. This applies to all applicants.
8. SMC strongly advise all interested applicants to ensure that they fulfil all necessary criteria,
including but not limited to, holding a qualification which is listed on the Second Schedule of the
MRA or a registrable postgraduate medical qualification recognised by the SMC.