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NHRA Exam - Bahrain (National Health Regulatory Authority)

The National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) regulates healthcare in Bahrain and ensures high quality and safety standards. NHRA requires healthcare professionals to pass its assessment exam to obtain their professional license to practice in Bahrain. The exam is currently required for medical practitioners, dental practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. Applicants have four attempts over three years to pass the exam, and if they fail the fourth attempt they must complete six months of additional training before having two more attempts in the next two years. The passing score on the Bahrain licensure exam is set at 60% for all professions.

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NHRA Exam - Bahrain (National Health Regulatory Authority)

The National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) regulates healthcare in Bahrain and ensures high quality and safety standards. NHRA requires healthcare professionals to pass its assessment exam to obtain their professional license to practice in Bahrain. The exam is currently required for medical practitioners, dental practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. Applicants have four attempts over three years to pass the exam, and if they fail the fourth attempt they must complete six months of additional training before having two more attempts in the next two years. The passing score on the Bahrain licensure exam is set at 60% for all professions.

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NHRA License

National Health Regulatory Authority – Bahrain


Healthcare Professionals are required to pass NHRA National Health Regulatory Authority –
Bahrain – assessment to acquire their professional license and to practice in Bahrain.

The National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) is an independent


regulatory body established by Law No. 38 of 2009. NHRA’s mission is to
regulate the provision of healthcare in Bahrain and ensure high efficiency,
safety and effectiveness in delivering health services; both in the governmental
and private sectors based on the best scientific principles and health practice
standards accredited in the Kingdom.

The vision of NHRA is to ensure a Safe and High quality in the delivery of
health care. We aim to be able to achieve our vision through three strategic
goals:

 Regulated and accountable healthcare facilities: We ensure that all


health care facilities meet the required standards for licensing.
 Safe and trusted health services: We are committed to continuously
monitor the quality of the provision of health services to ensure
compliance with evidence-based practices and accreditation standards.
 Preserved patients health rights: we will act to protect the rights and the
safety of all people who use the health care facilities.
The department of Health care Professionals regulations at NHRA is
responsible for issuing all professional licensing and follows an internal
process that requires submitting application forms and documents that are a
pre-requisite before issuing the license.  
Certain applicants may be required to pass the Bahrain licensure examination
prior to being issued a license to practice in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The
professions currently required to go through the examinations currently
include:

1. Medical Practitioner
2. Dental Practitioner
3. Nurses
4. Pharmacist
All examination applications must be submitted to NHRA, which will in turn
generate a unique eligibility number for the candidate in order for the
candidate to be able to register for the prometric examination. The eligibility
number will be valid for a maximum of four months from the date of issue. 

Please note that the examination's seating time is 3 hrs. Actual examination
time is 2.5 hrs.

Number of Examination Attempts

As per decision number 11 for the year 2015 pertaining to the licensure
examinations, the following applies for the number of permitted examination
attempts:

1. An applicant may be allowed to appear for the licensure examination


four consecutive times including previous examination attempts
provided that the attempts are done within a maximum of three years
from the first attempt.
2. Should the applicant fail the fourth attempt, he/she will be required to
go through a re-training period of a minimum of six months and to
provide proof of completion of this training.
3. Following the re-training period, the applicant may be permitted to re-
appear for the licensure examination for two more attempts provided
that they are done within a maximum of two years from the date of
completion of re-training.
Examination results:

The pass grade is set at 60% for all Bahrain licensure examinations
Publication 001_Healthcare Professional Licensing Standards-Physicians_v1_17 March 2017_English.pdf

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