An Act To Make Technical Changes to the Medical Licensure Laws
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0398
Committee: Business, Research and Economic Development
Sponsors: SMITH, DUDLEY, MARRACHE, RECTOR, MARTIN, PERRY, SULLIV AN
Amends: 32 MRSA §3270-C, 32 MRSA §3271, 32 MRSA §3272, 32 MRSA §3273, 32 MRSA §3277, 32 MRSA §3278

Legislative Document 
No. 398 
H.P.301 
House of Representatives, January 25, 2005 
An Act To Make Technical Changes to the Medical Licensure Laws 
Submitted by the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation pursuant to Joint 
Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Business, Research and Economic Development suggested 
and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative SMITH of Monmouth. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: DUDLEY of Portland, MARRACHE of Waterville, 
RECTOR of Thomaston, Senators: MARTIN of Aroostook, PERRY of Penobscot, 
SULLIV AN of York. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §3270-C, sub-§I, as amended by PL 2003, c. 
601, §3, is further amended to read: 
1. 
Grounds. 
The sanctions of section 3282-A apply to a 
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Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §3271, sub-§ 2, as amended by PL 2003. c. 601, 
§4, is further amended to read: 
2. 
Postgraduate training. 
Each applicant who has graduated 
from an accredited medical school on or after January 1, 1970 but 
before July L 
2004 must have satisfactorily completed at least 
months in a graduate educational program accredited by the 
Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. the Canadian 
Medical 
Association or 
the 
Royal 
College 
of 
Physicians 
and 
Surgeons 
of 
Canada. 
Notwithstanding 
other 
requirements 
of 
postgraduate training, 
an applicant is eligible for licensure 
when the candidate has satisfactorily graduated from a combined 
postgraduate training program in which each of the contributing 
programs is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate 
Medical Education and the applicant is eligible for accreditation 
by 
the 
American 
Board 
of 
Medical 
Specialties 
in 
both 
specialties. 
Each applicant who has graduated from an accredited 
medical school prior to January 1, 1970 must have satisfactorily 
completed at least 12 months in a graduate educational program 
accredited 
by 
the 
Accreditation 
Council 
on 
Graduate 
Medical 
Education, the Canadian Medical Association or the Royal College 
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. 
Each applicant who has 
graduated from an accredited medical school on or after July 1 r 
2004 or an unaccredited medical school must have satisfactorily 
completed at least 36 months in a graduate educational program 
accredited 
by 
the 
Accreditation 
Council 
on 
Graduate 
Medical 
Education, the Canadian Medical Association, the Royal College of 
Physicians 
and 
Surgeons 
of 
Canada or the 
Royal 
Colleges 
of 
England, Ireland or Scotland. 
Notwithstanding this subsection, 
an applicant who is board certified by the American Board of 
Medical Special ties is deemed to meet the postgraduate training 
requirements of this subsection. 
Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §3272. as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, 
§209, is repealed. 
Sec. 4. 32 MRSA §3273. as amended by PL 1991, c. 425, §15, is 
repealed. 
Sec. 5. 32 MRSA §3277. as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, 
§213, is further amended to read: 
§3277. Camp physicians 
A physician who is qualified under section 3275 may, at the 
discretion of 
the 
board, 
be 
temporarily licensed as 
a 
camp 
physician so that the physician may care for the campers in that 
particular camp for which the physician was hired and retained as 
a camp physician. That physician is entitled to practice only on 
patients in the camp. The temporary license must be obtained each 
year. Application for this temporary license must be made in the 
same form and manner as for regular licensure. An examination may 
not be exacted from applicants for these temporary licenses. The 
fee 
for 
temporary licensure may not be 
more 
than 
$lGG 
$400 
annually. 
Sec. 6. 32 MRSA §3278. as amended by PL 2003, c. 601, §6, is 
further amended to read: 
§3278. Emergency IOO-day license 
A physician who 
presents 
a 
current active unconditioned 
license from another United States licensing jurisdiction and who 
can 
provide 
reasonable 
proof 
of 
meeting 
qualifications 
for 
licensure in this State must be issued a 
license to serve as 
leeHm-~eaeas temporarily for declared emergencies in the State or 
for other appropriate reasons as determined by the board. 
The 
±eeHrn-~€ReaS license is effective for not more than 100 days. 
The fee for this leeHm-~eaeas license may be not more than $400. 
Sec. 7. 32 MRS A §3280-A. sub-§3. lIA. as amended by PL 1999, c. 
685, §11, is further amended to read: 
A. 
The board may charge a license renewal application fee 
of not more than $500 to all applicants for license renewal 
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SUMMARY 
This bill makes a number of technical changes to the law 
concerning the Board of Licensure in Medicine. 
1. 
It 
clarifies 
and 
provides 
disciplining physician assistants. 
specific 
grounds 
for 
2. 
It changes the postgraduate training requirements for 
licensure to require the completion of a postgraduate residency 
training program by persons graduating from 
an accredited or 
nonaccredited medical school on or after July 1, 2004. 
3. 
It 
repeals 
sections 
of 
law 
referring 
to 
a 
state 
examination and reexamination of physician licensure applicants 
since the board now uses the national standardized examination 
set. 
4. 
It changes 
the 
nomenclature 
of 
the 
"locum 
tenens" 
license. 
5. 
It requires physicians 70 years of age or older who 
continue active practice to pay license registration fees.