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 2150-2.004 - Postgraduate Training Requirements for Permanent Licensure

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: Section
				  334.035,
				  RSMo requires every applicant for a permanent license as a physician and
				  surgeon to provide the Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing
				  Arts with satisfactory evidence of having successfully completed postgraduate
				  training in hospitals, or medical or osteopathic colleges as the board may
				  prescribe by rule. This rule establishes the postgraduate training requirements
				  which each applicant for a permanent license must satisfy. The board recognizes
				  that certain limited situations may occur in which it would be in the best
				  interest of the inhabitants of this state for the board to waive the
				  postgraduate training requirements of this rule. Therefore, this rule also
				  establishes the criteria which an applicant must fulfill before the board may
				  waive the postgraduate training requirements of this rule.
(1) Every applicant for a permanent license
				as a physician and surgeon who is a graduate of a medical college, approved and
				accredited by the American Medical Association (AMA) or its Liaison Committee
				on Medical Education, or an osteopathic college approved and accredited by the
				American Osteopathic Association (AOA), must present a certificate with his/her
				application evidencing the satisfactory completion of one (1) year of
				postgraduate training in a program which is approved and accredited to teach
				postgraduate medical education by the accreditation counsel on graduate medical
				education of the AMA or the education committee of the AOA .
(2) Every applicant for a permanent license
				as a physician and surgeon who is not a graduate of a medical college, approved
				and accredited by the AMA or its Liaison Committee on Medical Education, or an
				osteopathic college approved and accredited by the AOA, must present, with
				his/her application, a certificate evidencing the satisfactory completion of
				three (3) years of postgraduate training in one (1) recognized specialty area
				of medicine in a program which is approved and accredited to teach postgraduate
				medical education by the accreditation council on graduate medical education of
				the AMA or the education committee of the AOA.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of
				sections (1) and (2) of this rule, the board may waive any portion of the
				postgraduate training requirements of this rule if the applicant is American
				Specialty Board eligible to take an American Specialty Board-certifying
				examination and the applicant has achieved a passing score (as defined in this
				chapter) on a licensing examination administered in a state or territory of the
				United States or the District of Columbia. The board also may waive any of the
				postgraduate training requirements of this rule if the applicant is a graduate
				of a program approved and accredited to teach medical education by the Canadian
				Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and has one (1) year of postgraduate
				training in a program approved and accredited to teach postgraduate medical
				education by the Canadian Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. The board
				may also waive any of the postgraduate training requirements of this rule if
				the applicant has served for three (3) or more years as a full-time faculty
				member of a medical college approved and accredited by the AMA or its Liaison
				Committee on Medical Education, or an osteopathic college approved and
				accredited by the AOA. Prior to waiving any of the postgraduate training
				requirements of this rule, the board may require the applicant to achieve a
				passing score on the Appropriate Specialty Board's certifying examination in
				the physician's field of specialization or the Federation of State Medical
				Boards' Special Purpose Examination (SPEX). If the board waives any of the
				postgraduate training requirements of this rule, then the license issued to the
				applicant may be limited or restricted to the specialty area for which the
				applicant is American Specialty Board eligible.
*Original authority: 334.031, RSMo 1959, amended 1981,
					 1997; 334.035, RSMo 1987; and 334.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993,
					 1995.