Which healthcare degrees are homologated in Spain and under which rule

Twelve, according to the Ministry’s catalogue: medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, physiotherapy, general health psychology, speech and language therapy, optics and optometry, podiatry, occupational therapy, and dietetics and nutrition. Each has its own ministerial order, and it is that order which fixes the credits and placement hours ANECA will measure your file against.

No. This firm handles healthcare degree homologations exclusively. We would rather say so in the first line than charge you for a file we would run worse than someone who does it for a living: if your degree is in engineering, architecture, teaching or any other field, look for a firm that specialises in yours.

Homologation (art. 5.1 of RD 889/2022) declares your foreign healthcare degree equivalent to a specific Spanish degree that gives access to the regulated profession, and the Ministry decides it. Convalidación (art. 22) is the recognition of partial studies so you can continue studying at a Spanish university, and the university decides it, not the Ministry. Confusing them costs months.

The legal period for a decision is six months, though in practice files currently move between nine months and two years depending on the profession and the country. And here is the part that matters: if the period expires with no answer, silence is negative — your application is deemed refused. Waiting patiently is the worst strategy available. What works is a complete file from the outset and answering any requerimiento within its deadline.

No. Degrees from the EU, the European Economic Area and Switzerland are not homologated: they go through the recognition of professional qualifications (RD 581/2017), which is a different procedure and, for several healthcare professions, close to automatic. If you hold a European degree and somebody is processing a homologation for you, stop the machine.