The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME), founded in 1972 and based in France, sets standards for medical education. It does not accredit or list medical schools. It recognises national and regional agencies that accredit medical schools, so a school is "WFME-recognised" only in the sense that its accreditor is. Since 2024 the US Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) requires applicants to have graduated from a school accredited by a WFME-recognised agency. India's National Medical Commission publishes no such rule for foreign graduates, and we have not found one for the other councils on our country pages.
WFME in North Cyprus
- Near East University (NEU) lists WFME for its Faculty of Medicine on its own accreditations page. That is the university's claim; for the US route the question is which agency accredits NEU's medicine programme and whether WFME recognises that agency.
- Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU)'s Medicine programme, run jointly with Marmara University, is accredited by TEPDAD, Türkiye's medical education accreditor, which WFME lists among its recognised agencies.
- The World Directory of Medical Schools lists the medical schools of NEU, Cyprus International University, Girne American University and the University of Kyrenia, and states that a listing does not denote recognition. EMU's medical school was not found there on 17 October 2026.
What to verify
- Ask the university which agency accredits its medicine programme, then check that agency on WFME's list of recognised agencies.
- For the US route, look up the school in the World Directory of Medical Schools (search.wdoms.org) and read its ECFMG note.
- For any other country, ask that country's licensing authority what it requires; WFME does not settle it.
Official source: https://wfme.org/