2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 8 - The Professions › Article 131 - Medicine › 6524 - Requirements for a Professional License.

§  6524.  Requirements  for  a  professional license. To qualify for a
license as  a  physician,  an  applicant  shall  fulfill  the  following
requirements:
(1) Application: file an application with the department;
(2)  Education:  have  received  an  education,  including a degree of
doctor  of  medicine,  "M.D.",  or  doctor  of  osteopathy,  "D.O.",  or
equivalent degree in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
(3)  Experience:  have  experience  satisfactory  to  the board and in
accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
(4) Examination: pass an examination satisfactory to the board and  in
accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
(5)   Age:   be  at  least  twenty-one  years  of  age;  however,  the
commissioner may waive the  age  requirement  for  applicants  who  have
attained  the  age  of eighteen and will be in a residency program until
the age of twenty-one;
(6) Citizenship or immigration status: be a United States citizen or a
noncitizen lawfully admitted  for  permanent  residence  in  the  United
States;  provided,  however  that the board of regents may grant a three
year waiver for a noncitizen physician to practice in an area which  has
been  designated by the department as medically underserved, except that
the board of regents may grant an additional extension not to exceed six
years to  a  noncitizen  physician  to  enable  him  or  her  to  secure
citizenship  or permanent resident status, provided such status is being
actively pursued; and provided further that the  board  of  regents  may
grant  an  additional  three  year  waiver,  and  at  its expiration, an
extension for a period not to  exceed  six  additional  years,  for  the
holder  of an H-1b visa, an O-1 visa, or an equivalent or successor visa
thereto;
(7) Character: be  of  good  moral  character  as  determined  by  the
department; and
(8) Fees: pay a fee of two hundred sixty dollars to the department for
admission  to  a  department  conducted  examination  and for an initial
license,  a  fee  of  one  hundred   seventy-five   dollars   for   each
reexamination,  a  fee of one hundred thirty-five dollars for an initial
license for persons not requiring admission to  a  department  conducted
examination,  a  fee  of  five  hundred seventy dollars for any biennial
registration period commencing August first, nineteen hundred ninety-six
and thereafter. The comptroller is hereby  authorized  and  directed  to
deposit  the  fee for each biennial registration period into the special
revenue funds-other entitled "professional medical conduct account"  for
the  purpose of offsetting any expenditures made pursuant to section two
hundred thirty of the public health law in relation to the operation  of
the  office  of  professional  medical  conduct within the department of
health, provided that for each biennial registration  fee  paid  by  the
licensee  using  a  credit  card,  the  amount of the administrative fee
incurred by the department in processing such  credit  card  transaction
shall  be  deposited by the comptroller in the office of the professions
account established by section ninety-seven-nnn  of  the  state  finance
law. The amount of the funds expended as a result of such increase shall
not be greater than such fees collected over the registration period.
(9)  For every license or registration issued after the effective date
of this subdivision, an additional fee of thirty dollars shall  be  paid
and  deposited  in  the  special revenue fund entitled "the professional
medical conduct account" for the purpose of offsetting any  expenditures
made  pursuant  to  subdivision fifteen of section two hundred thirty of
the public health law. The  amount  of  such  funds  expended  for  such
purpose  shall  not  be greater than such additional fees collected over

the licensure period or for the duration of such program  if  less  than
the licensure period.
(10)  A  physician  shall  not  be  required to pay any fee under this
section if he or she certifies to the department that for the period  of
registration  or  licensure,  he  or  she  shall  only practice medicine
without compensation or the expectation or promise of compensation.  The
following  shall not be considered compensation for the purposes of this
subdivision: (a) nominal payment solely to enable the  physician  to  be
considered  an  employee  of  a  health  care provider, or (b) providing
liability coverage to the physician relating to the services provided.
(11) No physician may be re-registered unless he or she,  as  part  of
the  re-registration  application,  includes  an  attestation made under
penalty of perjury, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, that he or
she  has,  within  the  six  months   prior   to   submission   of   the
re-registration  application,  updated  his  or her physician profile in
accordance  with  subdivision  four  of  section   twenty-nine   hundred
ninety-five-a of the public health law.