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医師国家試験
National Medical Licensing Examination (physicians)
The national exam that medical graduates in Japan must pass to be licensed as physicians by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The exam
- Set by
- Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
- The paper
- About 400 multiple-choice questions over two days, on paper; separate pass marks for required and general questions
- How it is sat
- Once a year in February, after graduating from a six-year medical school
- Where
- Japan, in Japanese
What Licento would give you
- Practice questions written to this exam's syllabus, scheduled up to your exam date.
- Mock exams in the real exam's format, timed and marked the same way.
- How ready you are, topic by topic, so you know where to spend your time.