PQR - Physician Sub-Specialty

Licensing Criteria
for Physician Sub-Specialty

Guidance aims to ensure consistency, fairness and proportionality in our approach to making decisions in licensing procedures

Qualification/Certification:

Recognized sub-specialty titles as listed in the PQR
Recognized main specialty qualification as per the PQR followed by a 1 to 2 years recognized structured clinical hands-on training/ fellowship in accordance to the program standards.
Physicians with Board certifications shall deduct 1 year from the experience requirements
This criteria is applicable to all Clinical academic training programs in any country listed in the PQR

Experience Requirements for Sub-specialties Licensure

Experience shall counted after obtaining the sub-specialty training completion certificate
Non- UAE nationals must fulfill the experience requirements in their main specialty prior applying for sub-specialty titles.
Recognized sub-specialty qualifications shall follow the experience requirements
- Current cases of UAE nationals applied for consultant posts till end of May 2020 and have obtained one year experience must obtain the consultant posts in their sub-specialty
- Attached criteria shall be applied on all new applications submitted from June 2020.

Main Qualification

Category

Experience
Clinical training/ fellowship Tier 1 country	Clinical training/ fellowship Tier 2 country	Clinical training/ fellowship Tier 3 country

Tier 1

Specialist

Consultant

No Experience	2 years (No experience UAE nationals)	3 years (2 years UAE nationals)
2 years	5 years (3 years UAE nationals )	Not eligible

Tier 2

Specialist

Consultant

No Experience	2 years (No experience UAE nationals)	3 years (2 years UAE nationals)
2 years	5 years (3 years UAE nationals )	Not eligible

Tier 3

Specialist

Consultant

No Experience	2 years (No experience UAE nationals)	3 years (2 years UAE nationals)
Not eligible	Not eligible	Not eligible