• Introduction
In this article, we collected links to the forms and documents to apply for Approbation (German permanent medical license) on the websites of the 16 German medical license authorities (🇩🇪 Approbationsbehörden).
The forms to apply for the Approbation are in each of the 16 German Approbationsbehörden different than in the others.
On the other hand, the required documents to apply for Approbation are almost similar in all authorities. There are only slight differences between them. We explained the meaning of each document and how to get it in the following article:
🇩🇪 Required documents to apply for Approbation in Germany (2023)
Preparing documents to apply for Approbation in Germany is step number 5 of the 10 steps to start a medical residency in Germany.
• The links to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation in the 16 🇩🇪 Approbationsbehörden:
(1) Baden-Württemberg (BW) (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Regierungspräsidium Baden-Württemberg
| Non-EU/EFTA graduates | EU/EFTA graduates | |
|---|---|---|
| Link to the required documents | Link (see the screenshot above) | Link (see the screenshot above) |
(2) Bavaria (🇩🇪 Bayern)
| Ärzte mit nicht EU/EFTA-Abschluss | Für Ärzte mit EU/EFTA-Abschluss | |
|---|---|---|
| Name of the responsible authority | Regierung von Oberbayern | Regierung von Unterfranken |
| Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation | Link (under the point: “Erforderliche Unterlagen”) | Link (under the point: “Erforderliche Unterlagen”) |
(3) Berlin (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales
| Non-EU/EFTA graduates | EU/EFTA graduates | |
|---|---|---|
| Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation | Link (There are also pages in English and Ukrainian) | Link |
(4) Brandenburg (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Landesamt für Arbeitsschutz, Verbraucherschutz und Gesundheit : Abteilung Gesundheit
| Non-EU/EFTA graduates | EU/EFTA graduates | |
|---|---|---|
| Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation | Link (under the point “Ausbildung Drittland”, see the screenshot above) | Same Link as non-EU/ETA (under the point “Ausbildung EU”, see the screenshot above) |
(5) Bremen (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Die Senatorin für Gesundheit, Frauen und Verbraucherschutz
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation: Same as above for both EU and non-EU doctors
(6) Hamburg (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Landesprüfungsamt für Heilberufe – Bereich Humanmedizin
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not): same as the links above. You can find the documents in the following part in the link:
(7) Hesse (🇩🇪 Hessen)
• Name of the responsible authority: Hessisches Landesprüfungs- und Untersuchungsamt im Gesundheitswesen
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation. You can see the documents in the following part:
(8) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV) (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the link:
(9) Lower Saxony (🇩🇪 Niedersachsen)
• Name of the responsible authority: Niedersächsischer Zweckverband zur Approbationserteilung
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the link:
(10) North Rhine-Westphalia (🇩🇪 Nordrhein-Westfalen) (NRW)
• Name of the responsible authority: Zentrale Anerkennungsstelle für Gesundheitsberufe
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the linked page:
(11) Rheinland-Pfalz (RP) (🇩🇪 Rhineland-Palatinate)
• Name of the responsible authority: Landesamt für Soziales, Jugend und Versorgung
• Link to forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the linked page:
(12) Saarland (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Zentralstelle für Gesundheitsberufe / Landesprüfungsamt
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the linked page:
(13) Sachsen (🇩🇪 Saxony)
• Name of the responsible authority: Die Landesdirektion Sachsen
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the linked page:
(14) Saxony-Anhalt (🇩🇪 Sachsen-Anhalt) (SA)
• Name of the responsible authority: Landesprüfungsamt für Gesundheitsberufe
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the linked page:
(15) Schleswig-Holstein (SH) (🇩🇪 same)
• Name of the responsible authority: Landesamt für soziale Dienste
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not). You can find the documents in the following part in the linked page:
(16) Thuringia (🇩🇪 Thüringen)
• Name der zuständigen Behörde: Landesverwaltungsamt (TLVwA) – Akademische Heilberufe, Approbationserteilung
• Link to the forms & documents to apply for Approbation for doctors with foreign degrees (either EU/EFTA graduates or not).
• In which of the 16 medical license authorities to apply for the Approbation?
This is a complicated question to answer. We tried to answer it in the following article:
🇩🇪 Where to apply for approbation: Advantages & disadvantages of each German state
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