National medical councils, dental councils, ministries, and other regulators referenced in the registry. Use the verification URL on each entry to check whether a specific practitioner or facility is registered.
Type: medical council
Statutory body regulating the practice of medicine in Thailand. Registers all physicians, issues and renews medical licences, sets specialty standards, and handles disciplinary complaints. Patients and international referrers can look up a doctor's current licence status through the Council's public register.
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Regulatory authority for dentists in Thailand. Registers dental practitioners, oversees dental education standards, and maintains the public licence register used to verify any dentist's credentials.
Verify hereRoyal Thai College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Type: college
Professional college certifying OB-GYN specialists in Thailand, including fertility and reproductive medicine sub-specialists. Sets training standards and maintains a fellowship directory that complements Medical Council licensure for IVF and reproductive surgery.
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Central government ministry regulating all healthcare facilities and practitioners in Turkey. Operates a national practitioner verification portal (Sağlık Bakanlığı) where licence status can be confirmed by name or identity number. Issues and revokes clinic operating licences.
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National professional chamber of physicians (Türk Tabipleri Birliği, TTB). Registration with TTB is mandatory for practising doctors in Turkey. The association also handles ethics oversight and publishes position statements on medical practice.
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National professional body for dentists in Turkey (Türk Dişhekimleri Birliği, TDB). All practising dentists must be registered members. TDB publishes practice guidelines and maintains records of dental clinic operations.
Verify hereCOFEPRIS (Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks)
Type: regulator
Federal Mexican health regulator under the Secretariat of Health. Licenses hospitals, surgical centres, pharmacies, and medical devices; enforces sanitary standards; and publishes safety alerts. COFEPRIS authorisation is the primary credential for clinics performing invasive procedures in Mexico.
Verify hereCONAMED (National Medical Arbitration Commission)
Type: arbitration
Federal body handling medical malpractice complaints and mediating disputes between patients and healthcare providers in Mexico. Issues non-binding opinions and maintains public records of arbitration outcomes. A key redress channel for international patients.
Verify hereHungarian Medical Chamber (MOK)
Type: medical council
Mandatory professional chamber for all physicians practising in Hungary (Magyar Orvosi Kamara). Maintains the public licence register, handles disciplinary cases, and confirms EU professional-qualification recognition for doctors moving to Hungary.
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Professional association for dentists in Hungary (Magyar Fogorvosok Egyesülete). Publishes clinical guidelines and supports continuing education; dentist registration in Hungary is administered through the Medical Chamber but specialty credentials are recognised via the association.
Verify hereNational Public Health Center (NNK)
Type: regulator
Hungarian national public-health authority (Nemzeti Népegészségügyi Központ). Licenses healthcare facilities, enforces hygiene and infection-control standards, and publishes inspection findings. Operates under the Ministry of Human Capacities.
Verify hereNational Medical Commission (India)
Type: medical council
Successor to the Medical Council of India (replaced MCI in 2020 under the NMC Act). Regulates medical education, maintains the national practitioner register, and oversees state medical councils. Licence verification is available via the central NMC register.
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Statutory body under the Dentists Act 1948 regulating the practice of dentistry in India. Maintains the Indian Dentists Register, approves dental colleges, and sets minimum standards for dental education.
Verify hereIndian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
Type: research
India's apex biomedical research body under the Department of Health Research. Issues the ICMR National Guidelines for Accreditation, Supervision and Regulation of ART Clinics (IVF), publishes ethical guidelines for human research, and accredits assisted-reproduction facilities.
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Primary professional body for physicians in South Korea, representing doctors to government and managing continuing medical education. Membership is near-universal; the KMA publishes a directory that complements the Ministry of Health & Welfare practitioner register.
Verify hereKorean Ministry of Health and Welfare
Type: ministry
Central Korean government ministry regulating healthcare facilities, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and public health. Issues medical licences and operates licence verification through the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA). Also oversees the international patient facility registration required for clinics treating medical tourists.
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Statutory body regulating the practice of medicine in Malaysia under the Medical Act 1971. Maintains the public Medical Register (practitioners) and the National Specialist Register (recognised specialty qualifications). Both registers are searchable online.
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Malaysian statutory body regulating dentistry under the Dental Act 1971. Registers all practising dentists, accredits dental schools, and enforces professional conduct standards. Operates as a unit under the Ministry of Health.
Verify hereColegio de Medicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica
Type: medical council
Mandatory professional chamber for doctors and surgeons in Costa Rica. Registration is required to practise; the Colegio maintains a public member register, accredits specialty training, and handles ethical and disciplinary complaints.
Verify hereColegio de Cirujanos Dentistas de Costa Rica
Type: dental council
Professional chamber for dentists in Costa Rica. All practising dentists must be members; the Colegio administers professional registration, continuing education, and complaints — a key reference for verifying any dentist marketing to international patients.
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Central Spanish health ministry (Ministerio de Sanidad). Coordinates the national healthcare system, regulates pharmaceuticals and medical devices via AEMPS, and oversees the regional colleges that register individual practitioners. Publishes national quality and safety strategies.
Verify hereGeneral Council of Dentists of Spain
Type: dental council
National coordinating body for Spain's regional dental colleges (Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Odontólogos y Estomatólogos). All dentists practising in Spain must be members of their regional college; the national council sets ethics rules and publishes the aggregate member directory.
Verify hereSpanish Fertility Society (SEF)
Type: society
Sociedad Española de Fertilidad. Maintains the national ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) registry — mandatory reporting by all Spanish IVF clinics covering cycles, outcomes, and complications. The published register is an important verification source for clinic success-rate claims.
Verify hereSupreme Medical Chamber (Naczelna Izba Lekarska)
Type: medical council
Central Polish professional chamber for physicians and dentists (Naczelna Izba Lekarska, NIL). Mandatory for all practising doctors and dentists; maintains the central practitioner register (Centralny Rejestr Lekarzy) that is searchable by name and licence number.
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RPWDL is Poland's electronic register of entities performing medical activity, administered by the Center for e-Health (Centrum e-Zdrowia, CeZ) under the Act of 15 April 2011 on medical activity. Its public part covers medical entities (podmioty lecznicze) and the professional practices of doctors and dentists, nurses and midwives; the public register application is at rpwdl2.ezdrowie.gov.pl.
Verify herePatient Rights Ombudsman (Rzecznik Praw Pacjenta, RPP)
Type: regulator
The Patient Rights Ombudsman (Rzecznik Praw Pacjenta) is a central Polish government authority protecting patients' rights. It operates a free, round-the-clock Patient Information Telephone (Telefoniczna Informacja Pacjenta) and handles patient complaints and petitions.
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Statutory body that registers all doctors in Singapore and maintains the Register of Medical Practitioners under the Medical Registration Act.
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Statutory body that registers all dentists in Singapore and oversees standards of practice under the Dental Registration Act.
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Government ministry responsible for health policy, hospital licensing under the Healthcare Services Act, and patient-safety regulation in Singapore.
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Federal umbrella body of the 17 German state medical chambers (Landesärztekammern). Licensure and disciplinary jurisdiction sits with the state chambers.
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Federal umbrella body for German state dental chambers (Landeszahnärztekammern). State-level chambers hold the register and the disciplinary power.
Verify hereBundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM)
Type: regulator
German federal institute for drugs and medical devices. Authorises medicinal products, supervises clinical trials, and manages medical-device vigilance.
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Czech Medical Chamber — statutory professional body for physicians. Membership is mandatory for practice; the chamber maintains the public register.
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Czech Dental Chamber — statutory professional body for dentists. Maintains the public register and enforces the code of ethics.
Verify hereMinistry of Health and Prevention (UAE)
Type: ministry
Federal UAE ministry responsible for health policy and the federal licensure of professionals in emirates outside Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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Emirate-level health regulator covering Dubai. Licenses doctors, dentists, and healthcare facilities operating in the emirate.
Verify hereDepartment of Health — Abu Dhabi
Type: regulator
Emirate-level health regulator covering Abu Dhabi. Operates the Tamm and Sheryan systems for professional licensing.
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Federal Council of Medicine — registers physicians in Brazil through 27 state councils (CRMs) and operates the central practitioner search.
Verify hereConselho Federal de Odontologia
Type: dental council
Federal Council of Dentistry — registers dentists in Brazil through 27 state councils (CROs).
Verify hereAgência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA)
Type: regulator
Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency. Regulates medicines, medical devices, and healthcare facility sanitary licensing.
Verify hereMinisterio de Salud y Protección Social (Colombia)
Type: ministry
Colombian Ministry of Health. Sets healthcare policy, accredits training, and operates the registry of healthcare providers (REPS).
Verify hereInstituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos (INVIMA)
Type: regulator
Colombian regulator for medicines, food, cosmetics, and medical devices. Operates pharmacovigilance and device-vigilance programmes.
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Vietnamese Ministry of Health. Issues practice certificates for physicians, dentists, and other health professionals, and licenses healthcare facilities.
Verify hereNational Medical Council (Hội đồng Y khoa Quốc gia)
Type: medical council
The National Medical Council (Hội đồng Y khoa Quốc gia) is Vietnam's national body for the independent assessment of medical-practice competence, established under the 2023 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment to run the national licensing assessment for medical professionals. It complements the Ministry of Health, which issues practice certificates and licenses facilities.
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Statutory regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom under the Medical Act 1983. Maintains the public List of Registered Medical Practitioners.
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Statutory regulator of dentists and dental care professionals in the UK. Maintains the public dental register under the Dentists Act 1984.
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Independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. Inspects and rates registered providers; publishes inspection reports.
Verify hereMedicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Type: regulator
UK regulator for medicines, medical devices, and blood components. Operates the Yellow Card scheme for adverse-event reporting.
Verify hereFederation of State Medical Boards
Type: society
Umbrella body of the 70+ US state medical and osteopathic boards. Maintains a central physician data centre; the licensing power itself sits with the state boards.
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Professional association for US dentists. Dental licensing in the US sits with the state dental boards listed by the ADA's state-board directory.
Verify hereU.S. Food and Drug Administration
Type: regulator
US federal regulator for drugs, biologics, medical devices, and food. Operates MedWatch for adverse-event reporting and clears or approves devices used in clinical practice.
Verify hereMinistry of Health of Argentina (Ministerio de Salud de la Nación)
Type: ministry
Argentina's national health ministry administers the professional licence (matrícula) for health professionals, including physicians and dentists, at the national jurisdiction. The digital credential is complementary to the physical credential issued by each Ministry, Colegio or Consejo de ley.
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The national public verification tool, operated by the Ministry of Health through the Federal Network of Health Professional Registries (REFEPS), that consolidates matriculation and habilitation data reported by provincial colegios and ministries across the country.
Verify hereCroatian Medical Chamber (Hrvatska liječnička komora)
Type: medical council
Statutory professional chamber for physicians in Croatia (Hrvatska liječnička komora, HLK). Membership is mandatory for practising doctors; on a member's request the Chamber issues the licence for independent work (odobrenje za samostalan rad / licenca) and maintains the public physician register (Imenik liječnika).
Verify hereCroatian Ministry of Health (Ministarstvo zdravstva Republike Hrvatske)
Type: ministry
Croatia's central government health authority (Ministarstvo zdravstva). It runs the statutory procedure for establishing a healthcare institution: the applicant must request from the Ministry a decision (rješenje) confirming that the founding act complies with the law before the institution may begin work.
Verify hereCyprus Medical Association (Παγκύπριος Ιατρικός Σύλλογος, CyMA)
Type: society
The Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) is the professional membership body for doctors in Cyprus. It represents physicians and operates a Disciplinary Council (Πειθαρχικό Συμβούλιο) over its members, but it is not the statutory registration authority.
Verify hereCyprus Medical Council (Ιατρικό Συμβούλιο Κύπρου)
Type: medical council
The Cyprus Medical Council is the statutory body that registers physicians in the Cyprus Medical Register, which is a legal precondition for practising medicine in the Republic of Cyprus. It operates under the Medical Registration Law (Cap. 250).
Verify hereDominican Medical College (Colegio Médico Dominicano)
Type: college
The professional collegiation body for physicians in the Dominican Republic, governed by Ley 68-03 (Ley de Colegiación Médica y sus Reglamentaciones). Membership (colegiatura) requires the applicant to already hold the state exequátur.
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The Ministry of Public Health service, run by its Dirección de Habilitación y Acreditación, that issues licences (Licencias de Habilitación) authorizing the operation of health establishments and services, under Decreto 1138-03 (Reglamento para la Habilitación de Establecimientos de Salud).
Verify hereMinistry of Public Health (Ministerio de Salud Pública, MISPAS)
Type: ministry
The Dominican Republic's national health ministry issues and records the exequátur — the legal authorization required for health professionals (physicians and dentists) to practise — and provides a public tool to consult and verify a professional's exequátur.
Verify hereHellenic Dental Federation (Ελληνική Οδοντιατρική Ομοσπονδία, EOO)
Type: society
The Hellenic Dental Federation (EOO) is the national federation of Greece's regional dental associations. Statutory registration of individual dentists is held by the regional dental associations (Οδοντιατρικοί Σύλλογοι), of which EOO is the coordinating federation rather than the direct registrar.
Verify hereMinistry of Health (Υπουργείο Υγείας)
Type: ministry
The Ministry of Health of Greece is the national health authority responsible for health policy and oversight of health services, including the framework for licensing healthcare facilities.
Verify herePanhellenic Medical Association (Πανελλήνιος Ιατρικός Σύλλογος, PIS)
Type: medical council
The Panhellenic Medical Association (PhMA/PIS) is the national umbrella body of Greece's regional medical associations, membership of which is the precondition for practising medicine. Its site references a National Register of Physicians and a Supreme Disciplinary Board for Physicians.
Verify hereMinistry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省)
Type: ministry
Japan's national ministry responsible for health, medical and welfare policy. It issues and administers the national medical and dental licences and sets national medical-care policy; physicians and dentists are licensed at ministry level rather than through a separate professional council. Its official physician-search service (licenseif.mhlw.go.jp) is a non-UTF-8 (Windows-31J / Shift-JIS) frameset that is not reliably machine-readable, so no practitioner lookup URL is provided here.
Verify hereJordan Medical Council (المجلس الطبي الأردني)
Type: medical council
The Jordan Medical Council (JMC) is the statutory body responsible for postgraduate specialty training and certification of doctors in Jordan, awarding the Jordanian Board, the highest specialty qualification in the country. It is a government body (gov.jo domain), distinct from the professional syndicate.
Verify hereJordanian Medical Association / Physicians' Syndicate (نقابة الأطباء الأردنية, JMA)
Type: society
The Jordanian Medical Association (JMA) is the professional syndicate (niqaba) representing physicians in Jordan. It is the membership/representative body for doctors and is distinct from the Jordan Medical Council, which handles specialty certification.
Verify hereHealth Inspectorate of Latvia (Veselības inspekcija)
Type: regulator
Latvia's Health Inspectorate (Veselības inspekcija), under the Ministry of Health, carries out the registration of medical practitioners and medical treatment support persons and maintains the state registers of healthcare practitioners and of healthcare institutions.
Verify hereLatvian Medical Association (Latvijas Ārstu biedrība)
Type: society
Professional association of physicians in Latvia (Latvijas Ārstu biedrība). Its stated aims include continuous improvement of the healthcare system and of physicians' qualifications, and it operates a Certification Board (Sertifikācijas padome) that conducts specialist certification and recertification of doctors.
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Lithuania's state agency operating under the Ministry of Health that runs the national healthcare licensing portal. It issues and publishes licences both for healthcare specialists (Specialistų licencijos) and for healthcare institutions (Įstaigų licencijos), and provides public lookups of issued licences.
Verify hereLithuanian Medical Association (Lietuvos gydytojų sąjunga, LGS)
Type: society
Voluntary professional association of physicians in Lithuania (Lietuvos gydytojų sąjunga). By its own description it is an independent, voluntary organisation uniting about 70 percent of Lithuanian doctors and defending their professional interests.
Verify hereTechnical Health Council of Panama (Consejo Técnico de Salud)
Type: regulator
A council that operates within Panama's Ministry of Health (MINSA), established by Article 108 of the Sanitary Code (Ley 66 of 1947). It controls the practice of the medical and allied professions and grants the idoneidad (professional suitability), the legal authorization required to practise, to physicians and dentists.
Verify hereDirectorate General of Public Health, MINSA (Dirección General de Salud Pública)
Type: regulator
The MINSA directorate responsible for formulating and updating the legal and technical norms for all public and private health-service provision, and for the Sistema Único de Habilitación de Instalaciones de Salud (health-facility licensing system).
Verify hereProfessional Regulation Commission (PRC)
Type: regulator
The Professional Regulation Commission is the national government agency that administers, implements and enforces the regulatory laws and policies for the country's regulated professions, including medicine and dentistry. Physicians and dentists are licensed through the Professional Regulatory Board of Medicine and the Professional Regulatory Board of Dentistry, which operate under the PRC.
Verify hereDepartment of Medical Affairs, Ministry of Health and Welfare
Type: regulator
The Department of Medical Affairs is the unit of Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare that administers the statutes and rules governing medical institutions and medical professionals, including regulations on teaching hospitals and hospice palliative care.
Verify hereMinistry of Health and Welfare (衛生福利部)
Type: ministry
Taiwan's national ministry responsible for healthcare and social welfare. It regulates medical institutions and medical personnel and operates a public inquiry system for verifying whether a healthcare provider is a legally licensed practitioner. Physician and dentist licensing in Taiwan is administered at ministry level rather than through a separate professional council.
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