Morocco's Medical School Concours and Specialization Path

Getting into medical school

Morocco's public medical faculties, including those in Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, Fes and Oujda, admit a capped number of students each year. Places are competitive and go to students with strong baccalaureate science results, with each faculty running its own selection process on top of the national baccalaureate score.

Once admitted, the medical degree runs through several years of preclinical and clinical study before you reach the doctorate stage and the thesis that confers your Doctor in Medicine title.

The internat: a competitive track during your studies

Before graduating, students can sit the concours d'internat, a competitive exam that selects a smaller group to work as hospital interns (internes) during their final years of study. Interne status gives you more clinical responsibility and hands-on hospital experience earlier than the standard curriculum, and many students treat it as useful preparation for the residanat exam that comes after graduation.

Internat and residanat are separate exams run by the same faculties, and passing the internat is not a requirement for taking the residanat later.

The residanat: what decides your specialty

After earning your Doctor in Medicine degree, if you want to specialize rather than practice as a general physician, you sit the concours de residanat. This is the exam that determines your specialty and the hospital where you train as a resident.

Eligibility is limited to Doctors in Medicine who are not under contract with the Ministry of Health or another state department, according to the residanat notices published by the Faculte Mohammed VI de Medecine et des Sciences de la Sante (FM6SS ). If you already work under a Ministry of Health contract, you generally need to resolve that status before you can register.

How the exam is structured

The residanat runs in two stages: an eligibility (admissibilite) round, followed by a final admission round for candidates who clear it. Both stages use multiple-choice questions with automatic correction rather than written or oral exams, which keeps marking fast and consistent across the large candidate pool each faculty handles.

At registration, you choose a single specialization track: Medicine, Surgery, or Medical Biological Analysis. This choice narrows the exam content and the pool of posts you compete for, so pick the track that matches the specialty family you actually want before you register, since you cannot switch tracks mid-cycle.

Faculty-by-faculty calendars

Each medical faculty runs its residanat concours on its own schedule and with its own post numbers, rather than one national exam date for the whole country. For the 2025/2026 cycle, the Faculte Mohammed VI de Medecine de Casablanca held its exam from February 16, 2026, while the Rabat faculty (FM6SS) opened its competition starting May 5, 2026, per FM6SS notices.

Because timing and post numbers vary by faculty, check the specific medical school's announcements rather than assuming a single national date applies everywhere.

After you place

Once assigned through the residanat, you train as a resident inside a university hospital department tied to your chosen specialty, working toward the specialist diploma that lets you practice independently in that field. Training length depends on the specialty, with surgical specialties generally taking longer than most medical ones.