24.156.607    GRADUATE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES

(1) A license will not be granted to a foreign medical graduate unless:

(a) the graduate has had three years of post-graduate training education in a post-graduate institution that has been approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association or successors; or

(b) the graduate has had three years of postgraduate training education in a program approved by or affiliated with the World Health Organization and has sufficient fluency in spoken and written English to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety; or

(c) the graduate has been granted board certification by a specialty board which is approved by and a member of the American Board of Medical Specialties or the American Osteopathic Association, or provides verification of being a certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, or a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

History: 37-3-203, MCA; IMP, 37-3-305, MCA; NEW, 1985 MAR p. 687, Eff. 6/14/85; AMD, 1995 MAR p. 2480, Eff. 11/23/95; AMD, 1999 MAR p. 275, Eff. 2/12/99; TRANS, from Commerce, 2001 MAR p. 1471; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 2833, Eff. 11/21/14.