Working as a physician in Malta
What official sources say about working as a physician in Malta: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Malta, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes physicians, earns ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020). To work as a physician in Malta on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 35,394 € a year (current). Physician is a regulated profession in Malta. Foreign qualifications go through: Doctor in basic and specialised medicine both listed in Annex V.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Doctor in basic and specialised medicine both listed in Annex V
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 35,394 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Malta: ≈ 2,943 EUR/month (gross, 2020), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of physicians alone.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Malta publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 35,394 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what physicians earn.
Regulation and recognition
Physician is a regulated profession in Malta.
- Recognition route
- Doctor in basic and specialised medicine both listed in Annex V. Doctor in Basic Medicine. Medical Council registration follows the applicant's origin, qualification, specialty and registration category; provisional and full routes are separate. Doctor in Basic medicine and General medical practice.
- Recognition authority
- Medical Council Malta is the competent registration and licensing authority for medical practitioners.
- Language requirement
- Some applicants on the non-Malta/non-EU-degree route may be required to pass the Council's English test: IELTS Academic 7.5 overall with at least 6.5 in each component, or OET Medicine in each component.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Physician in Malta: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version eb2b059006042b9abeea24a3bcf80a3d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/physician/malta/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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