{"id":23534,"date":"2026-10-08T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/08\/taliban-announces-medical-exit-exam-date-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:30:15","slug":"taliban-announces-medical-exit-exam-date-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/08\/taliban-announces-medical-exit-exam-date-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban administration announces date for medical exit exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Examinations Administration, under Taliban control, has announced that the medical licence exam, or the \u201cexit\u201d exam, for graduates of general medicine will be held on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Naseer Khan Shirzai, the administration\u2019s spokesman, said on Thursday, 16 Mizan, that the exit exam for graduates of the general medicine programme will be taken tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the exit exam for dentistry graduates will be held on 24 Mizan.<\/p>\n<p>The exclusion of women from taking this exam has, according to health sources and institutions in the past, prevented thousands of women from entering the formal health workforce and has made access to health services more difficult for women and girls. In Afghanistan, the exit exam is regarded as one of the steps required to obtain a licence to work in the medical sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities announce dates for Afghanistan\u2019s medical exit exams, while women remain barred from taking the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}