La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XLV-323

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XLV-323 - Qualifications for License

A. To be eligible for a license, an international medical graduate applicant shall:

1. possess all of the substantive qualifications for license specified by §311 of this Chapter;

2. have taken and successfully passed the examination administered by the Educational Council on Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), or its successor examination having successfully passed the USMLE in accordance with the standards, restrictions and limitations prescribed by §385 of this Chapter;

3. be competent and proficient in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing the English language; and

4. have completed at least three years of postgraduate clinical training in the United States or in Canada in a medical residency or equivalent program accredited by the ACGME of the American Medical Association, or by the RCPS of Canada, and approved by the board. To be approved by the board such program must be offered and taken in an institution offering not fewer than two residency or equivalent programs accredited by the ACGME or the RCPS; the program in which the applicant participates must evidence the applicant's progressive responsibility for patient care; and the three years of such a program must be in the same specialty or alternatively, constitute the IMG, upon completion of the three years of such program, as eligible for specialty board certification or for postgraduate year four (PGY-4) training.

5. or, alternative to the requirements of §323A.4, if the IMG is a graduate of a medical school or college which was, at the time of graduation, recognized by the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) or another organization accepted by the ECFMG for the recognition of medical school accrediting agencies, and found to use standards comparable to those used to accredit medical schools in the United States by the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA) of the U.S. Department of Education, have completed postgraduate clinical training in the manner prescribed by §311A.6.b of these rules.

B. In addition to the qualifications specified in §323 A, if an IMG applicant has participated in any clinical clerkship program within the United States as part of the academic training requisite to his doctor of medicine degree, such clinical clerkship program shall be subject to approval by the board as a condition of the applicant's eligibility for licensure. Such a clinical clerkship program may be approved by the board only if, at the time the applicant participated in such program, the clinical clerkship program was accredited or approved by the ACGME, the clinical clerkship was served in a hospital or other institution accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, and the applicant's supervising physician within such program held formal appointment as a professor or associate professor of the medical school or college sponsoring such program; provided, however, that notwithstanding a clinical clerkship program's satisfaction of these standards, the board may decline to approve any such program upon a finding that it was not substantially equivalent to the clinical clerkships offered by the medical schools and colleges accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

C. The burden of satisfying the board as to the qualifications and eligibility of the IMG applicant for licensure shall be upon the applicant. An applicant shall not be deemed to possess such qualifications unless the applicant demonstrates and evidences such qualifications in the manner prescribed by, and to the satisfaction of, the board.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XLV-323

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Board of Medical Examiners, LR 10:909 (November 1984, amended LR 12:528 (August 1986), amended by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Medical Examiners, LR 16:514 (June 1990), LR 27:837 (June 2001), Amended by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Medical Examiners, LR 47729 (6/1/2021).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1270, 37:1272 and 37:1275.1.