Medical studies in Romania are organised by accredited medical Schools and universities, dedicated to the basic training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians, nurses, midwiferies, physiotherapists etc., as well as all postgraduate specialty medical trainings. The basic medical studies in Romania for physicians, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians includes both preclinical and clinical studies and lead respectively to doctor of Medicine, doctor of dentist medicine, doctor of pharmacy and doctor of veterinary medicine.

The Romanian health care system has been in existence since 1700. Among well-known activists of medicine in Romania, we can mention George Emil Palade, the Nobel Prize winner of 1974 in Physiology or Medicine, was born in Iași, in North-Eastern Romania, while Nicolae Paulescu, the discoverer of insulin, was born in Bucharest, Romania.

Medicine in Romania has become one of the major subjects in Europe and beyond. Today Romanian doctors are well appreciated in occidental countries and all over the world and Romanian medical schools attract thousands of international medical school students every year.