---
title: "Unlicensed Medical Practice"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/unlicensed-medical-practice-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Medical practice permit: state certificate, examination, refusal grounds, indefinite validity and professional liability under Georgian law — Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-11"
updated: "2026-10-29"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Unlicensed Medical Practice

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## The Scope of the Law and the Right to Practise

The Law on Medical Activity governs the legal relations between the subject of independent medical practice, the paramedic and state authorities, natural persons and legal entities. The right to independent medical practice belongs to a citizen of Georgia or another state or a stateless person who has graduated from a state-accredited higher medical institution and received a confirming state certificate as the law establishes. It exists only in the specialty indicated in the certificate, save statutory exceptions. There is also a prohibition: the right may not be held by a person whom a court has deprived of the right to practise medicine under the law on combating crimes against sexual freedom and inviolability.

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### What is the state certificate?

A state document confirming the right to independent medical practice, determining the specialty, held to strict accounting and mandatory only for independent practice.

### Who issues the certificate?

The Professional Development Council, to which an application, diploma, postgraduate education certificate, recommendation and examination certificate are submitted.

### When is the examination required?

Certification is mandatory after a postgraduate course; the examination is unified nationwide, while one-list certificate holders are admitted without it.

### How does the law protect patients from unqualified practice?

Through deprivation of the right, the mandatory certificate and supervision; improper conduct entails measures from a warning to cancellation of the certificate.