On Sunday, almost 10,000 graduates in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy sat the residency exam, Radio România Actualități reported. The Health Ministry runs it in six centres: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Craiova, Timișoara and Târgu Mureș. The exact figures are in Saturday’s statement from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy: 9,969 candidates, for 5,217 places and 266 posts. The radio rounded the places to 5,200.

In Bucharest the paper is at Romexpo and Carol Davila organises it. 3,736 candidates enrolled, more than 37 percent of the total: 2,733 in medicine, 725 in dentistry and 278 in pharmacy. The radio said “over 3,700”.

Nationally, 7,180 candidates enrolled for 4,481 medicine places. Dentistry has 1,855 candidates for 491 places, and pharmacy 934 for 245. Against 2025, candidates fell from 10,147 to 9,969, places rose from 5,079 to 5,217, and posts fell from 295 to 266. That comparison is in the university statement.

The paper is a multiple-choice test of 200 questions per field, over four hours. Of those, 50 are single-complement and 150 multiple-complement, in the statement’s terms. Candidates may enter the room from 8:30, and the test starts at 10:00. After the time, and a 15-minute break, marking begins in the rooms. Appeals, on the questions, on remarking or on the organisation, are filed within 24 hours and decided within 48. The pass mark is 60 percent of the highest score actually achieved on the 200 questions, for each field. It is not 60 percent of a theoretical maximum announced in advance.

The fee was 500 lei, the same as in 2023, 2024 and 2025. Places are filled in score order, with one ranking per field, up to the published number. Results are posted only after the Health Ministry order that confirms them, not with the sitting itself.

In medicine, the most places are in family medicine: 645, against 641 last year. Then cardiology, with 209, anaesthesia and intensive care, with 205, internal medicine, with 191, and general surgery, with 178. At the other end: paediatric neurology and sports medicine, 7 places each, work-capacity assessment, 11, paediatric cardiology, 15, and paediatric oncology and haematology, 17.

Rector Viorel Jinga called the exam the step from studies into practice in the health system. Răzvan Hainăroșie, chair of the local board for Bucharest, said the university has to provide equal conditions. The rest of the statements in the release are wishes to the candidates.

The photograph shows Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in September 2011. The author is Korinna, and the image is on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 3.0 Romania licence. It is not the Romexpo hall, and it is not Sunday’s candidates.

Source consulted: Examenul de rezidențiat este organizat în șase centre universitare din țară.