New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 35 - BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS › Subchapter 1 - MEDICAL SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, EXTERNSHIPS AND CLERKSHIPS › Section 13:35-1.5 - Registration and permit requirements for graduate medical education programs in medicine or podiatry

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context in this section indicates otherwise:
"Applicant" means a graduate of a medical or podiatric school, unlicensed in this State, seeking authorization to engage in the practice of medicine or podiatry as a resident in a graduate medical education program. A registration applicant is seeking authorization to participate in the first year of a graduate medical education program. A permit applicant is seeking authorization to participate in his or her second year (or beyond) of a graduate medical education program.
"Director" means a physician holding a plenary license to practice medicine and surgery in New Jersey who is responsible for the conduct of a graduate medical education program at a hospital licensed in this State and whose responsibilities shall include generally overseeing the selection, training and evaluation of residents. With respect to graduate medical education programs in podiatry, the director shall be a podiatric physician licensed to practice podiatry in New Jersey.
"Graduate Medical Education Program" means an education program, whether denominated as an internship, residency, or fellowship, which is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medicine Education (ACGME) or by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) in which the graduates of medical schools participate for a limited period of time under the supervision of plenary licensed physicians. With respect to podiatry, "Graduate Medical Education Program in Podiatry" means an education program, whether denominated as an internship, residency, or fellowship, which is accredited by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education of the American Podiatric Medicine Association (APMA) in which the graduates of podiatric schools participate for a limited period of time under the supervision of a licensed podiatric physician.
"Master list" means a list prepared by the director setting forth the name of each person seeking to practice medicine or podiatry in that graduate medical education program in New Jersey, designating the date of birth and medical or podiatric schools attended.
"Permit" means a document issued by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners authorizing the holder to engage in the practice of medicine or podiatry in the second year of a graduate medical education program (or beyond) in medicine or podiatry in this State, subject to the limitations set forth in this rule.
"Permit holder" means a person authorized to engage in the practice of medicine or podiatry, as appropriate, while in the second year or beyond of a graduate medical education program in medicine or podiatry in the State of New Jersey, subject to the limitations set forth in this rule.
"Registered resident" means an applicant granted authorization to engage in the practice of medicine or podiatry in the State of New Jersey in the first year of a graduate medical education program, subject to the limitations set forth in this rule.
"Registration" means authorization to engage in the practice of medicine or podiatry in this State in the first year of a graduate medical education program subject to the limitations set forth in this rule.
"Resident" means a participant in training in a graduate medical education program in medicine or in podiatry at a licensed hospital in this State. For purposes of this rule, persons serving in internships and fellowships shall be deemed residents.
(b) No unlicensed person shall engage in the practice of medicine or podiatry in the first year of a graduate medical education program unless and until he or she is registered with the Board. No unlicensed person shall engage in the practice of medicine or podiatry in the second year of graduate medical education or beyond unless or until he or she has been issued a permit by the Board.
(c) A registration applicant shall certify that he or she:
1. Has attained the preliminary educational prerequisites for licensure, including:
i. Completion of at least 60 undergraduate level credits, at a college or university attained prior to medical or podiatric school. With respect to medical residents, the credits shall include at least one course each in biology, chemistry and physics.
ii. With respect to medical residents, graduation from a medical school that, during each year of attendance, was accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA); was accredited by an entity recognized by the World Federation of Medical Education (WFME) * as* having accreditation standards comparable to the LCME or the AOA; or was authorized to confer a medical degree in a country that has an accrediting process recognized by the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA) to be a reliable process for the evaluation of medical education leading to an M.D. or D.O. degree and having accreditation standards comparable to the LCME or the AOA. A registration applicant who cannot demonstrate graduation from a medical school meeting such standards, but whose school is listed in either the World Directory of Medical Schools published by the World Health Organization or the International Medical Education Directory (IMED) published by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), shall be deemed eligible to participate in a residency training program only if all of the graduate's didactic training was completed in the jurisdiction where the school is authorized to confer a medical degree. If the applicant has attended more than one medical school, he or she shall certify that each school attended was accredited through a process identified above or listed in either the World Directory of Medical Schools published by the World Health Organization or the International Medical Education Directory (IMED), published by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) during the same time he or she was matriculated.
iii. With respect to podiatry residents, graduation from a college of podiatric medicine accredited by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education (CPME) of the American Podiatric Medicine Association (APMA). If the applicant has attended more than one college of podiatric medicine, he or she shall certify that each school attended was accredited or listed.
iv. Attendance at medical or podiatric school for at least 32 months prior to graduation.
v. With respect to medical students, where clinical clerkships have been completed away from the site of a medical school not approved by the LCME or AOA, satisfactory completion of clinical clerkships of at least four weeks duration each in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and psychiatry at hospitals that maintained at the time of the clerkship a graduate medical education program in that field accredited by the ACGME or the AOA;