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Requesting recognition of a foreign diploma for a healthcare profession
If you wish to reside permanently in Belgium and exercise a healthcare profession, you first have to request recognition or have your diploma declared to be equivalent.
If you wish to reside permanently in Belgium and exercise a healthcare profession, you first have to request recognition or have your diploma declared to be equivalent.
Take note: If you wish to temporarily or occasionally exercise a healthcare profession in Belgium, you first have to apply for permission.
This applies to the following professions:
- Doctors: General Practitioners and other specialists
- Dentists: General dentists and specialist dentists
- (Hospital) Pharmacists
- Clinical Psychology
- Clinical Special needs education
- Physiotherapists
- Nurses: first the basic title and then the professional titles and competencies (specialisations) that they can acquire
- Patient care assistants
- Paramedical professions: pharmaceutical-technical assistants, dieticians, occupational therapists, speech therapists, audiologists and hearing care professionals, dental hygienists, orthoptists - optometrists, medical laboratory technologists, medical imaging technicians
- Midwives
The website of the Agency for Care and Health (Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid) explains what you have to do to request recognition(opens in new window).
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