Working as a physician in Bulgaria
What official sources say about working as a physician in Bulgaria: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Bulgaria, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes physicians, earns ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Physician is a regulated profession in Bulgaria. Foreign qualifications go through: Submit the prescribed qualification-recognition application to the Minister of Health. EU/EEA/Swiss and specified foreign-qualification routes are handled under the professional-qualification recognition procedure. A third-country national with a third-country medical degree uses a separate examination-admission route; admission is not itself recognition. General-care nurses and pharmacists may also have an optional EU Professional Card route when eligible. In Bulgaria, physicians are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Submit the prescribed qualification-recognition application to the Minister of Health. EU/EEA/Swiss and specified foreign-qualification routes are handled under the professional-qualification recognition procedure. A third-country national with a third-country medical degree uses a separate examination-admission route; admission is not itself recognition. General-care nurses and pharmacists may also have an optional EU Professional Card route when eligible.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Bulgaria: ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022), from Eurostat. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of physicians alone.
Regulation and recognition
Physician is a regulated profession in Bulgaria.
- Recognition route
- Submit the prescribed qualification-recognition application to the Minister of Health. EU/EEA/Swiss and specified foreign-qualification routes are handled under the professional-qualification recognition procedure. A third-country national with a third-country medical degree uses a separate examination-admission route; admission is not itself recognition. General-care nurses and pharmacists may also have an optional EU Professional Card route when eligible. Doctor in basic and specialised medicine both listed in Annex V. Doctor in Basic medicine and General medical practice. Doctor in Basic Medicine.
- Recognition authority
- Minister of Health; applications are processed by the Ministry and reviewed through the statutory commission.
- Language requirement
- Bulgarian knowledge sufficient to practise the regulated medical profession is required; the Ministry may assess language competence after recognition when there is a concrete patient-safety concern. No CEFR level or named test is published on the checked route.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for physician in Bulgaria: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Physician in Bulgaria: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 7e8664b6add1f7a3970fe1ae5daf45b8]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/physician/bulgaria/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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