Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2150 - State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
Chapter 2 - Licensing of Physicians and Surgeons
Section 20 CSR 2150-2.010 - Applicants for Licensing by Examination

(1) The applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence as to their innocence of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct and good moral character, including postgraduate reference letters from the applicant's training programs.

(2) The applicant shall furnish a certificate of graduation from an accredited high school, satisfactory evidence of completion of pre-professional education consisting of a minimum sixty (60) semester hours of college credit in acceptable subjects from a reputable college or university approved by the board.

(3) The applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having attended throughout at least four (4) terms of thirty-two (32) weeks of actual instructions in each term and of having received a diploma from some reputable medical or osteopathic college that enforces requirements of four (4) terms of thirty-two (32) weeks for actual instruction in each term, including, in addition to class work, experience in operative and hospital work during the last two (2) years of instruction as is required by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) before the college is approved and accredited as reputable.

(4) All applicants shall have on file, in the office of the executive director, a photocopy of their professional degrees before licenses can be issued to them.

(5) For applicants desiring to take the board's examination after January 1, 1994, the applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having passed-

(6) For applicants desiring to take the examination after January 1, 1994, the applicant shall provide evidence that the applicant will have met the board's postgraduate training requirements as stated in 20 CSR 2150-2.004, within sixty (60) days of the examination.

(7) Upon proper showing, the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts may accept the certificate of the National Board of Medical Examiners of the United States, chartered under the laws of the District of Columbia, of The National Board of Examiners for Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, chartered under the laws of Indiana, in lieu of and as equivalent to its own professional examination, upon proper application and an appropriate fee to be established by the board.

(8) The board does not necessarily accept the operative and hospital work of any medical or osteopathic school outside the United States and Canada; therefore an applicant from an international school may be required to have at least three (3) years of AMA/AOA approved training in a hospital in the United States approved for resident training by the board before making application for examination.

(9) Medical or osteopathic colleges in Canada, at the discretion of the board, may not be considered international schools by the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.