---
title: "Telemedicine Licensing"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/telemedicine-licensing-en"
field: "Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law"
description: "Telemedicine licensing in Georgia: the state certificate, the unified certification examination and the right to remote consultations. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Telemedicine Licensing

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/telemedicine-licensing-en

"Telemedicine licensing" is terminologically imprecise: the Georgian system gives the physician not a licence but a state certificate, and telemedicine requires no separate certificate — Article 90 links the remote consultation directly to the very status of a subject of independent medical practice. That correction is the value of this page: it restates the question in its correct form — how does a physician obtain the state certificate that then covers telemedicine as well.

## The Right and Its Basis

Article 7 provides that the right of independent medical practice belongs to a citizen of Georgia or of a foreign country or to a stateless person who has graduated from a Georgian state-accredited higher medical institution and, in the manner established by the law, has received a state certificate; the person holds this right only in the specialty indicated in the certificate. The law also erects one important barrier: a person whose right to medical practice has been stripped by a court under the Law on Combating Crimes against Sexual Freedom and Inviolability may not hold that right again — not even in the remote form. The grounds for issuing the certificate are detailed in Article 21, and in that list every document carries its own role: a written application in the established form, a copy of the higher medical education diploma, a state certificate confirming completion of the postgraduate (professional training) course in the relevant specialty, a submission-recommendation of the course supervisor or of the head of the institution where the applicant worked, a state certificate confirming the passing of the state certification examination, where applicable a document confirming an employment relationship, and a description of the works carried out in the relevant specialty during the last 2 years.

For physicians trained abroad, Article 21 shows two paths. A holder of a postgraduate course completed in a country on one statutory list, together with a foreign certificate received there, obtains in Georgia the certificate for permanent practice in the same specialty on the strength of an application, a diploma copy and that foreign certificate; where the course was completed in a country on the second list, a certificate of the passed state certification examination is added to those documents. This difference settles the question at the gate of the examination in advance, and it determines how quickly a foreign physician reaches the right to remote services.

## The Examination — The Single Gate

Article 28 declares the state certification examination unified and standardized across the whole territory of the country. Admitted to the examination is a person who has completed the postgraduate (professional training) course in the relevant specialty, in Georgia or in a country on the statutory list. Where the assessment is negative, the person may retake the examination only twice within the following year, with a 6-month interval between examinations. These numbers operate for "telemedicine licensing" exactly as for any specialty — the examination is specialty-specific, not form-specific.

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### Is a separate telemedicine licence needed?

No — the state certificate covers the remote form as well (Article 90).

### What documents does the certificate need?

Application, diploma, course certificate, recommendation, examination certificate and the description of the last 2 years of works (Article 21).

### How often can the exam be retaken?

Twice within one year, with a 6-month interval (Article 28).

### Can a stripped right be restored?

No — a right stripped by court under the named law cannot be held again (Article 7).

### Why is "licence" the wrong word?

The Georgian system issues a certificate — one, by unified examination, per specialty.