Jordanian Board — Application Support

The Route

For non-Jordanian doctors there is no separate foreign-doctor track. You enter the same Jordanian Board framework with additional documentation and separate fees.

1. Have your qualification and registration documents ready, authenticated
2. Obtain acceptance from an accredited Jordanian training programme
3. Submit the JMC residency registration application with hospital and programme acceptance documents
4. Receive JMC approval
5. Begin residency
6. Sit Part 1 after at least the first training year
7. Complete training, sit Part 2 Written, then Part 2 OSCE

Training-centre acceptance is the bottleneck. Passing an exam does not create a residency position. This differs from Egypt, where a central announcement allocates specialties.

The Year-1 registration application must include requests from the programme director, department head, and hospital or training-centre director.

Examination Structure

The Part 1 duration is 2 hours. The Council's own regulations state: " تتكون أسئلة الامتحان الكتابي من 100 سؤال ومدة الامتحان ساعتين " — the written exam consists of 100 questions and the duration is two hours. The regulations also require not fewer than 100 questions per paper for each specialty.

Final Part 2 result: 60% written weight plus 40% OSCE weight, and each component must independently reach 60%.

The OSCE station count is not centrally published — because the Council delegates it. The regulations state that "the specialised examination committees determine the number of cases and the weight of each."

Attempts. Part 1: no published limit. Part 2: 5 attempts, then one year of additional training, then 3 more, then one further year of additional training, then 2 more, to a maximum of 10.

Part 2 Written validity: not published. No source states it, including the Council's own examination regulations. Treat as unconfirmed.

Sittings: Twice yearly. Exact dates are announced by the Jordan Medical Council per round. Check with the regulatory body for the current schedule.

Fees

Note the two different completion-exam fees — 260 JOD local track, 350 JOD external track.

For a foreign-trained specialist who already holds the highest specialty certificate and applies directly to Part 2, the entry fee is 650 JOD, not 400 JOD.

Jordan Medical Association registration fees: not published / not found. They are separate from the JMC schedule, as are hospital tuition, visa, residence and equivalency costs.