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Sunday – Friday 8am to 8pm
Medical job consultancy in Abu Dhabi matches internationally trained doctors to roles in the emirate's government and private hospitals and manages DOH licensing alongside the job search. We guide physicians and surgeons through eligibility, DataFlow, and registration with the Department of Health Abu Dhabi. Consultant packages commonly run around AED 70,000 to 90,000 a month, tax-free.
The regulator for Abu Dhabi is the Department of Health Abu Dhabi, known as the DOH and formerly HAAD, and a Dubai DHA licence does not cover the emirate. This single fact catches out many doctors who assume one UAE licence works everywhere. A DOH licence is required to practise in any government or private facility across Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, and Al Dhafra, and the application runs through Abu Dhabi's TAMM portal rather than Dubai's Sheryan system.
A consultancy that handles DOH work daily knows where the emirate's requirements differ from Dubai's, which prevents the wasted weeks that come from applying to the wrong authority or preparing documents to the wrong checklist. Allocation Assist has placed doctors in the Gulf since 2015, with connections across more than 95 hospitals and over 500 doctors placed, and its in-house team manages DOH licensing end to end.
Placement in Abu Dhabi begins with a review of your qualifications against the Professional Qualification Requirements for your specialty, then moves through DataFlow verification, DOH credentialing, interviews, and licence activation by the hiring hospital. Because a SEHA or private hospital activates the licence once it issues an offer, the job and the licence are tied together, and running both in parallel is what keeps the timeline tight.
Your documents are checked against the current DOH checklist before anything is submitted, your profile is created on the TAMM portal, and your CV reaches hospitals while DataFlow is still processing. After an offer, the consultancy supports contract terms, salary, and the practical side of moving to Abu Dhabi. One team stays with you from the first eligibility check to your first day on the ward.
Your qualifications are checked against the Professional Qualification Requirements for your specialty.
Documents are verified through DataFlow and your profile is created on the TAMM portal.
Your CV reaches hospitals while verification runs, so interviews happen in parallel.
A SEHA or private hospital activates your licence once it issues an offer.
Check your DOH eligibility and see which Abu Dhabi roles fit your specialty.
Abu Dhabi's hospital system splits between the government SEHA network and a growing private sector, and vacancies come from both. SEHA runs 14 government hospitals, including Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Tawam, and Al Ain Hospital. The private side includes Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Burjeel Hospital, Burjeel Medical City, Reem Hospital, and Mediclinic, several of which recruit Western-trained consultants directly.
Roles across these hospitals span cardiology, oncology, paediatrics and paediatric subspecialties, emergency medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care, obstetrics and gynaecology, general and orthopaedic surgery, and internal medicine. Current openings are listed on the job board, and the SEHA hospitals guide explains how the government network hires. Openings change month to month, so an early eligibility check puts you in position when a role in your specialty opens.
Every doctor in Abu Dhabi needs a DOH licence, and eligibility depends on your qualifications, grade, and country of training. Doctors who hold a recognised specialty certificate from one of the health authorities' Tier-1 countries, which include the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Western Europe, may be exempt from the DOH licensing exam. That exemption applies to the exam only, does not remove the other requirements, and does not apply where there has been a gap in practice of more than three years. Doctors from other countries, and general practitioners, are assessed against recognised examination records instead.
The process runs through DataFlow primary source verification, which for Abu Dhabi usually takes around four to eight weeks depending on where you trained and how quickly your documents clear. You will need your medical degree and qualification certificates, recent experience letters, a valid licence from your last country of practice, a good-standing certificate issued within the last six months, a passport copy, a recent photo, and academic transcripts. Once verified and credentialed, the licence is activated by your hiring hospital, and for most recognised, exam-exempt doctors the full process runs to around three months.
Each step is handled for you through the DOH licence consultancy service, which manages the eligibility check, TAMM registration, DataFlow, and credentialing on your behalf.
Consultant roles in Abu Dhabi commonly pay in the region of AED 70,000 to 90,000 a month, and all income is tax-free. Packages typically add accommodation or a housing allowance, children's education, annual flights, employer medical insurance, 30 days of paid leave, and end-of-service gratuity. Government and private employers structure these differently, with private hospitals more likely to add performance-linked incentives.
Pay is set individually by specialty, grade, and employer rather than a fixed scale, so the figure moves with your subspecialty and experience. For how UAE earnings compare across roles, the doctor salary guides set out the ranges by specialty and career stage.
Because a hospital activates a DOH licence only after it makes an offer, an Abu Dhabi move rewards doctors who are already eligible and interview-ready. A consultancy runs the DOH application and the job search together, so your credentialing is underway when a hospital shortlists you rather than starting from scratch afterwards. It also means someone is watching the DOH checklist for the specific documents that stall applications.
Applying directly to SEHA or a private group is possible, but it usually means handling DataFlow, TAMM registration, and interview scheduling in sequence, without knowing which hospitals are actively hiring in your specialty. The consultancy closes that gap because it works these hospitals daily and knows what their credentialing teams expect.
Licensing and job search run in parallel, so your credentialing is underway when a hospital shortlists you.
Someone watches the DOH checklist for the specific documents that stall applications.
We work SEHA and private groups daily and know what their credentialing teams expect.
Hospitals pay the placement fee, so the job-matching and licensing guidance costs you nothing.
Abu Dhabi placements are supported from our office in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, roughly an hour from the capital and its hospital groups. Consultations run in person at the JLT office, or by phone and video for doctors still overseas, Sunday to Friday, 8am to 8pm, so the licensing and interview process can begin before you arrive in the UAE.
Allocation Assist Middle East
Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 4 273 3477
Hours: Sunday to Friday, 8am to 8pm
Founder and CEO, Allocation Assist Middle East. Emilie founded Allocation Assist in 2015 after seeing how much internationally trained doctors needed clear, reliable guidance to relocate and license in the UAE. She graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with First Class Honours in Nursing and worked in the Acute Medical Unit and Emergency Department at Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust before founding the consultancy.
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