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Doctor Registration Verification API

Confirm that a doctor is registered, with which council, under which number and since when, before you list them on a platform, credential them for a hospital or accept their prescriptions.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
2 required · 1 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/doctor-verification
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • Registration number*
    • Medical council*
    • Doctor's name
  2. Profiden API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    Authoritative source

  4. You receive

    • Registered name
    • Qualification
    • Year of registration
    • Council
    • Registration status
doctor-verification Full reference

What the Doctor Registration Verification API does

Send the registration number and the council (or the doctor's name and state) and receive the registered name, qualification, year of registration and current status from the medical register.

Benefits of the Doctor Registration Verification API

Verify a medical practitioner's registration with the national or state medical council.

Credential once, correctly

Registration pulled from the register, not from a scanned certificate.

Minutes, not weeks

Replace manual council lookups during hospital and platform onboarding.

Use cases

Doctor Registration Verification API use cases

Where the Doctor Registration Verification API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Hospital credentialing

Verify every consultant before privileges are granted.

Telemedicine and pharmacy platforms

List only registered practitioners; validate prescribers.

How the Doctor Registration Verification API works

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console at console.profiden.com.

01

Authenticate

Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

02

Send the inputs

Registration number, Medical council as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

03

We verify at source

Profiden queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

04

Act on the result

A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Built for the DPDP Act 2023

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

Encryption in transit and at rest
Data processed in India
Per-request audit trail
Masked identifiers in responses

Doctor Registration Verification API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Doctor Registration Verification API to their integration.

The national register and state medical councils that publish their registers. Dental, AYUSH and nursing councils are separate checks.

Related APIs

APIs that usually run alongside the Doctor Registration Verification API, on the same key.

All APIs

Get access to the Doctor Registration Verification API

Tell us your use case and expected volume. We set up the organisation, share per-call pricing and issue keys.