New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING › Chapter 10 - MEDICINE AND SURGERY PRACTITIONERS › Part 3 - EXAMINATIONS › Section 16.10.3.10 - SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF EXAMINATIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. An applicant must score a minimum of 75 on
				each component part of a board-approved examination as described in Subsection
				C of 16.10.3.8 NMAC. The minimum score of 75 may not be achieved for any
				component part of an examination by averaging that component's scores with
				scores of other component part(s).
B. A FLEX weighted average score of 75 or
				higher will be considered passing if obtained by testing prior to June
				1984.
C. An applicant who has taken
				the Canadian medical licensing examination (LMCC) must achieve the minimum
				passing score established for the exam as documented by LMCC
				certification.
D. Except as set
				forth in below, an applicant may attempt six times to successfully complete any
				part of a board-approved examination, as long as the entire examination is
				successfully completed within seven years from the date the first step of the
				examination is passed.
E. An
				applicant taking a combination examination set forth above in 16.10.3.8 must
				successfully complete the combination examination by January 1 of the year
				2000. If not, the applicant must successfully complete the USMLE (steps 1, 2,
				and 3). Either the combination examination or the USMLE must be successfully
				completed in a total of six attempts maximum for each part. The applicant must
				successfully complete a combination examination or the USMLE within seven years
				from the date any part of the combination examination was first
				passed.
F. The board may grant
				exceptions to the seven-year requirement for qualified applicants who have
				successfully completed the combination examination within ten years from the
				date the first step of the examination is passed. Qualified applicants must
				have had no adverse action taken against them by any other licensing
				jurisdiction, peer review body, health care entity, governmental agency, law
				enforcement agency or court, and no license restrictions or pending
				investigations in all jurisdictions where a medical license or resident or
				training license is or has been held. On a case by case basis the board may
				consider requests for exceptions if the applicant can demonstrate by
				substantial evidence that the applicant has:
(1) been continuously enrolled in
				postgraduate medical training;
(2)
				been continuously practicing medicine in another country;
(3) passed each part of the required
				examination within 2 attempts;
(4)
				current board certification in a specialty recognized by the American board of
				medical specialties;
(5)
				experienced a documented significant health condition which by its severity
				would necessarily cause a delay to the applicant's examination
				sequence;
(6) provided care for an
				immediate family member who has experienced a documented significant health
				condition which by its severity would necessarily cause a delay to the
				applicant's examination sequence; immediate family member means a spouse,
				domestic partner, child or parent of the applicant;
(7) been a victim of a federal or state
				declared major disaster or its equivalent;
(8) been serving in a branch of the US armed
				forces during a war or other armed conflict or unrest; or
(9) experienced other documented
				circumstances of extreme hardship or extraordinary situations that were not
				willful and were beyond the control of the applicant, when such circumstances
				would by their severity necessarily cause a delay to the applicant's
				examination sequence.