Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a)
Except as provided in §
17.2 (relating to license without
restriction-endorsement), to secure a license without restriction an applicant
shall:
(1) Have passed a licensing
examination acceptable to the Board by having achieved one of the following:
(i) A passing score on Step 1, Step 2 and
Step 3 of the USMLE as determined by USMLE completed within a 7-year
period.
(ii) A score of 75 on FLEX
I and a score of 75 on FLEX II, as determined by the Federation.
(iii) A score of 75, obtained in an
individual attempt, on the licensing examination provided by the Federation
from June 1968 to December 1984.
(iv) A passing score as determined by the
NBME on the National Boards.
(v) A
passing score on Part I of the National Boards or Step 1 of the USMLE plus Part
II of the National Boards or Step 2 of the USMLE plus Part III of the National
Boards or Step 3 of the USMLE completed within a 7-year period.
(vi) A score of 75 on FLEX I and Step 3 of
the USMLE completed within a 7-year period.
(vii) A passing score on Part I of the
National Boards or Step 1 of the USMLE plus Part II of the National Boards or
Step 2 of the USMLE plus FLEX II completed within a 7-year period.
(viii) A passing score, as determined by the
Medical Council of Canada, on the examination of the Medical Council of Canada
taken in or after May 1970, if the examination was taken in English.
(ix) A passing score, as determined by the
licensing authority of another state, territory or possession of the United
States, on a state board examination taken prior to December 1973, if the
examination was taken in English.
(2) Have graduated from an accredited medical
college or from an unaccredited medical college.
(3) Have been certified by the ECFMG if the
applicant is a graduate of an unaccredited medical college.
(4) Have successfully completed the following
graduate medical training requirement:
(i) A
year of graduate medical training at a first or second-year level if the
applicant is a graduate of an accredited or unaccredited medical college and
participated in a graduate medical training program prior to June 30,
1987.
(ii) Two years of graduate
medical training at a first and second-year level if the applicant is a
graduate of an accredited medical college and did not participate in a graduate
medical training program prior to June 30, 1987.
(iii) Three years of graduate medical
training at a first, second and third-year level if the applicant is a graduate
of an unaccredited medical college and did not participate in a graduate
medical training program prior to June 30, 1987.
(5) Satisfy the general qualifications for a
license specified in §
16.12 (relating to general
qualifications for licenses and certificates), including having completed at
least 3 hours of approved training in child abuse recognition and reporting in
accordance with §
16.108 (relating to child abuse
recognition and reporting-mandatory training requirement).
(b) An applicant who is a graduate of an
unaccredited medical college shall submit a complete application and shall, in
addition to satisfying the requirements in subsection (a), submit a diploma and
transcript verified by a medical college listed in the International Medical
Education Directory and chartered and recognized by the country in which it is
situated for the provision of medical doctor education. The transcript must
identify the successful completion of the equivalent of 4 academic years of
medical education including 2 academic years in the study of the arts and
sciences of medicine generally recognized by the medical education community in
the United States and 2 academic years of clinical study of the practice of
medicine as generally recognized by the medical education community in the
United States.
The provisions of this §17.1 amended under
sections 8 and 27-29 of the Medical Practice Act of 1985 (63 P.S. §§
422.8 and 422.27-422.29); and
23 Pa.C.S. §
6383(b)(2).
This section cited in 49 Pa. Code §
17.2 (relating to license without
restriction-endorsement); 49 Pa. Code §
17.5 (relating to graduate
license); 49 Pa. Code §
17.7 (relating to interim limited
license); and 49 Pa. Code §
17.11 (relating to examination
information for licensee without
restriction).
