If you wish to exercise a healthcare profession in Belgium, you first have to request recognition or have your diploma declared to be equivalent.
What you have to do depends on whether or not your diploma comes from inside or outside the European Economic Area.
Request recognition of the equivalence of your diploma from NARIC and your visa from the Federal Public Service Health.
If you are married to an EER citizen, first request recognition of equivalence from NARIC and then your recognition from the Agency for Care and Health.
South Africans with a South African basic diploma as a physician can request recognition of it from the Agency for Care and Health.
Anyone who has the nationality of one of the 28 Member States of the European Union, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Switzerland.
If you are married/legally cohabiting with a European national and settled in Belgium, you also qualify as a European national.
** The European Economic Area is composed of the 28 Member States of the European Union and Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Do you wish to exercise one of these healthcare professions abroad?
And do you have a Belgian diploma for that healthcare profession?
Ask the Agency for Care and Health for a certificate of conformity/equivalency certificate.
Do you need a certificate of good professional behaviour?
Call +32 2 553 1700, the number of the Government of Flanders, any working day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. or send an e-mail.