Overview of professions subject to the general knowledge and skills (AKV) test
Healthcare professionals with a foreign qualification must take a general knowledge and skills test for the following professions. The professions are specified per training level.
Senior Secondary Vocational Education (MBO) professions
- Pharmacy assistant
- Nurse
- Individual healthcare carers
Higher Professional Education (HBO) professions
- Dietician
- Occupational therapist
- Physiotherapist
- Dermatologist
- Speech therapist
- Oral hygienist
- Remedial therapist
- Optometrist
- General remedial educationalist
- Orthoptist
- Physician assistant
- Podiatrist
- Radio diagnostic laboratory technician
- Radio therapeutic technician
- Dental prosthetist
- Midwife
Academic professions
- Pharmacist
- Doctor
- Doctor of Psychology
- Clinical physicist
- Clinical technologist
- Psychotherapist
- Dentist