MOHAP exam 2026: format, booking and attempts

You do not book the MOHAP exam directly. You request a Health Professional Evaluation, MOHAP checks your qualifications and experience against the Unified PQR, and only then is your application moved to a scheduled test or to exemption. Passing gives you an evaluation certificate, which the employing facility uses to apply for your licence.

MOHAP licenses healthcare professionals in the Northern Emirates - Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah. Our MOHAP licence requirements page and the MOHAP licence guide cover the licence stage. Comparing emirates? See DHA vs DOH vs MOHAP.

Most applicants sit an exam unless the Unified PQR exempts them. Exemption depends on your qualification, your country of award and your title, not on how senior you feel: a consultant without a qualifying certificate still sits the exam.

The PQR exempts UAE nationals and children of Emirati women (clause 1.5.1). Specialist and consultant physicians are exempt on a Tier 1 specialty certificate from one of 22 listed countries, including the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany and France, or on a six-part Tier 2 test that includes more than ten years in the specialty. General practitioners are exempt on a valid pass in AMC, LMCC, PRES, NZREX, EMREE, PLAB I and II, or USMLE Step 3 (Steps 1 and 2 alone do not count). Holders of a current licence from another UAE authority in the same title can also be recognised.

Nurses and midwives have their own PQR table, built on a valid licence plus good standing certificate from a listed country, or NCLEX. Other professions have separate tables, and TCAM has none that we could find. Check yours with the GCC exam exemptions guide and, for physicians, the Tier 1 waiver guide.

Three limits catch people out. Exemption covers the exam only, not DataFlow, experience or good standing. It is void if you have a practice gap of more than three years. And the title on your equivalency certificate must match the title you apply for.

MOHAP's published conditions are no gap in professional practice of more than three years, an accredited qualification from your country of origin, certificates in English or legally translated with the originals uploaded, and a valid passport. Experience counts from the date your professional licence was issued in the country where you practised. Blacklisted candidates cannot apply. Check your title before you pay with the professional title classifier or the licence eligibility checker.

The service page lists these documents: education certificate, academic record, experience certificate, professional licence and certificate of good conduct (the last three optional for new graduates), a surgical record for surgical specialties, a family book for UAE nationals, a valid passport copy, exemption documents where they apply, and unprotected copies of any previous DataFlow reports. Our good standing certificate guide explains the certificate most delays trace back to.

Two groups have specific rules in MOHAP's service card. New nursing graduates no longer need the six-month training period if less than two years have passed since graduation - they can sit the evaluation exam directly within two years of graduating. And professionals transferring from DHA or DOH keep their route only while that licence is valid or has been expired for no more than six months; beyond that, the MOHAP exam is required.

Note that the facility licensing page states a stricter gap rule - no gap above two years, or training details per the PQR if there is one. If you have a gap of two to three years, confirm with MOHAP before you pay.

Yes. MOHAP requires your documents to be verified by an accepted third-party agency such as DataFlow, and it sends you a payment link after it approves your evaluation request. The DataFlow fee is paid to DataFlow, not MOHAP, and MOHAP does not publish an amount.

MOHAP's user guide says the system looks for existing DataFlow reports linked to your UAE PASS email and phone, including reports raised for another authority, and lets you transfer them. If you skip the transfer and an officer later asks for verification, you risk being charged for a fresh case. Read the DataFlow reuse guide before you pay twice, the complete DataFlow guide for the process, and what to do after a negative report.

The route is UAE PASS login, evaluation request, MOHAP review and DataFlow, then an exam or exemption, then the evaluation certificate. The facility applies for your licence afterwards.

1. Log in with UAE PASS on the MOHAP website or smart app and open the Health Professional Evaluation request. Choose your category, specialty, title and experience level. 2. Transfer any existing DataFlow report when the system finds one. 3. Upload documents and pay the evaluation fee. 4. Wait for review: MOHAP states 5 working days. 5. Pay for DataFlow when MOHAP sends the link. 6. Sit the assigned exam, or have your exemption accepted. 7. Receive the evaluation letter showing your category, specialty and title. 8. Your employer applies for the licence, which MOHAP states takes 1-2 working days.

Applications inactive for more than 60 days are cancelled automatically, so do not leave an approved request waiting. MOHAP does not publish an end-to-end timeline, because DataFlow and exam booking run on third-party schedules. Plan your own with the licensing timeline calculator, or ask for a personal check through our eligibility assessment.

MOHAP does not publish a question count, duration or pass mark for its exams, so any figure you see online is a third-party estimate. What MOHAP does publish is that the mode depends on your title and can be written, oral or OSCE.

MOHAP's user guide names three instruments: a Prometric computer-based exam, a written exam scheduled within 60 days of approval, and an oral exam run by a MOHAP exam officer. Which one you are assigned appears in your application; the PQR does not list which titles get which. If you are assigned more than one, the system lets you schedule the others after you pass the first.

Where an oral applies, the PQR sets a floor of at least five different scenarios or questions in your specialty, and all exams are in English with no translator allowed in the oral. Prep vendors quote 100 to 150 questions over two to three hours and pass marks from 50% to 70%, but these conflict and none is official. Prepare to a comfortable margin above 70% instead. For oral preparation see the consultant oral guide.

For the Prometric exam, MOHAP generates an eligibility ID that is valid for 15 days, and you sit at an approved Prometric centre. MOHAP does not publish its own arrival time, ID or rescheduling rules, so follow the instructions in your Prometric confirmation.

Because the eligibility ID expires after 15 days, book as soon as it is issued and leave room in case you need to move the date. Use the same name as on the passport you uploaded. Retakes are charged each time. Our guides to booking a Prometric exam and Prometric centres across the GCC cover the practical side, and the Prometric exam checker helps you confirm your exam.

Candidate reports from 2013 and 2014 describe seats being hard to get in the Northern Emirates, with schedules released weekly. We found no recent first-hand report, so check current availability when your ID is issued.

If you pass, MOHAP issues an evaluation letter with a unique R number stating your category, specialty and title. Per MOHAP's service card, the evaluation certificate is valid for five years, provided your experience is not interrupted for more than two years.

MOHAP does not state how quickly Prometric results are released or whether you receive a score report. Oral results are delivered as portal notifications. Licences themselves run on a two-year cycle, which we derive from the PQR's two-year surgical logbook renewal; MOHAP publishes no separate renewal fee.

You get three attempts in total across all UAE authorities. MOHAP's service card allows three test attempts per category, and the Unified PQR (clauses 1.5.4 to 1.5.6) counts your attempts at DHA, DOH, MOHAP and SHA together, so a failed attempt anywhere reduces what you have left here.

After three failures, the PQR allows one final attempt with a different authority, but not on the Tier 3 consultant-upgrade route. Failing all three can also let you apply at a lower title if you meet its requirements, and you get three new attempts after a new recognised qualification or two further years of clinical experience. At MOHAP, an applicant who exhausts the attempts is blocked from continuing or reapplying, and each retake is charged.

For how to recover from a fail, read our UAE retake guide and comeback guide. MOHAP publishes no minimum waiting period between attempts that we could find.

MOHAP publishes two fee stages. The evaluation costs AED 500 for physicians and dentists, AED 400 for nurses and midwives, and AED 300 for allied health and TCAM. After you pass, the facility applies for your licence: AED 100 application fee, plus AED 3,000 for doctors or AED 1,000 for nurses and technicians.

The licence fees apply to private facilities, and MOHAP lists the application fee for private and semi-government facilities only. The facility, not you, makes that application, so who pays depends on your contract. Not published by MOHAP: the DataFlow fee (see the DataFlow fees guide and cost calculator), the Prometric exam charge, retake fees and the renewal fee.

For a nurse in a private facility, the published AED items total AED 1,500 (AED 400 + AED 100 + AED 1,000) before DataFlow and any exam charge. For a doctor it is AED 3,600 (AED 500 + AED 100 + AED 3,000).

Most delays come from paperwork and counting errors, not from the exam content. These are the ones the rules make easy to hit.

• Assuming exemption without checking: a gap above three years voids it, and the equivalency title must match your applied title.
• Not transferring an existing DataFlow report, and paying for a second case.
• Forgetting that attempts at DHA, DOH or SHA count towards your three.
• Letting an approved application sit idle for 60 days.
• Trusting a vendor's pass mark or question count as official.
• Letting the 15-day Prometric eligibility ID lapse.

If you are unsure about your route, run the licence eligibility checker first.

Prepare against your profession's published blueprint under timed conditions, aiming comfortably above 70%, because MOHAP publishes no official question bank or pass mark. Start with our free timed mock tests to find weak domains, then work through the question banks and full-length papers, each with a rationale and reference for every answer.

Our guide on passing a Prometric exam first time applies equally to MOHAP. We cannot say what your paper contains, because MOHAP does not publish a blueprint and we found no recent candidate report for it.