A Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie is a public Moroccan university institution that trains doctors and pharmacists. Teaching combines preclinical years on campus with clinical years in an affiliated university hospital. These faculties award the Moroccan doctorate in medicine and host the specialist training programmes organised through the résidanat.
From Latin facultas, capacity or faculty, used since the medieval universities for a teaching body; the Moroccan designation joins medicine and pharmacy in a single institution.
FMP; faculté de médecine marocaine; faculté de médecine, de pharmacie et de médecine dentaire
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (Morocco)
The faculties of medicine and pharmacy are the institutions that train physicians, pharmacists and, in several cities, dentists in Morocco. Each faculty is attached to a public university and works with a university hospital centre, which provides the clinical environment for bedside teaching, on-call duties and the internship years. The faculties are placed under the joint supervision of the ministries responsible for higher education and for health, an arrangement that links the number of graduates to the needs of the health system. They are the only institutions that award the Moroccan doctorate in medicine.
Access is through the national entrance examination, open to holders of a scientific baccalauréat. Selection is by ranking, and the capacity of each faculty is fixed in advance, so admission depends both on performance and on the number of places opened that year. Candidates who are not admitted sometimes prepare a second attempt and sometimes choose a medical programme abroad; in the latter case the European curriculum is organised in ECTS credits, which makes the content of the training easier to document later.
A graduate who has studied medicine in Europe does not enrol again in a Moroccan faculty in order to practise. The faculties nevertheless remain relevant, because the academic assessment of a foreign programme is carried out by comparing it with the Moroccan curriculum, and because the résidanat is organised within them. Anyone planning to return home after studying abroad should therefore keep a complete academic record: transcripts, course descriptions, the number of hours of clinical training and the certificates of the internships completed.
European medical faculties follow the same broad logic: preclinical sciences, clinical rotations, a final examination and, in most systems, a thesis or equivalent written work. The differences concern the language of instruction, the organisation of the clinical years and the way access is regulated. For a student who intends to work in France afterwards, the relevant distinction is whether the faculty is located in a member state of the European Union, which brings the diploma under Directive 2005/36/EC, or outside it, in which case the qualification is treated as a third-country diploma.
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