Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 435 - State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision › Chapter 10 - Physicians and Surgeons › Subchapter 4 - Application and Examination Procedures for Licensure as Physician and Surgeon › Section 435:10-4-5 - Additional requirements for foreign applicants

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) It is the intent of the Board to provide
				graduates of foreign medical schools equal opportunity in the licensure
				process. All foreign applicants shall meet the requirements of
				435:10-4-4.
				Additional requirements set forth in this Section are used solely for the
				purpose of ensuring the validity of the foreign applicant's fitness to practice
				and ability to work in the United States.
(b) Graduates of foreign medical schools
				whose documents are not printed in the English language shall provide all
				original documents in the manner of
				435:10-4-4.
				In addition, foreign graduates shall identify a credible translator of
				applicant's documents. United States Consulates and formal educational foreign
				language programs from an institution accredited by the North Central
				Association of Colleges and Schools are approved to provide translations to the
				Board. An applicant may request to use another translator. Such a request shall
				be made in writing and include the proposed translator's name, address and
				qualifications to support the approval of the request. Upon approval by the
				Board of the proposed translator, all documents of the applicant shall be
				translated into English. Both the applicant and the translator shall attest to
				the accuracy of the translation.
(c) Effective January 1, 2004, any applicant
				that graduated from a foreign medical school after July 1, 2003 and completed
				clerkships in the United States, those clerkships must have been done in
				hospitals, schools or facilities that are accredited by the appropriate
				accrediting body such as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
				Education. The Board may direct staff to contact an applicant's medical school
				to obtain any necessary information related to the school or the applicant. In
				the event the Board is unable to verify information related to an applicant or
				the applicant's medical school, the Board may in its discretion reject the
				applicant's application or require the applicant to score ten (10) percentage
				points higher on a medical licensure examination than is otherwise
				required.
(d) Graduates of foreign
				medical schools must submit a tape-recorded reading of a written selection
				created by the Board and evaluated by the Secretary as to the ability of the
				applicant to communicate in the English language or take an oral examination as
				determined by the Board.
(e) An
				applicant from a foreign medical school shall provide the Board with proof of
				successful completion of twenty-four (24) months of progressive post-graduate
				medical training, obtained in the same medical specialty, from a program
				approved by:
(1) The American Council on
				Graduate Medical Education (ACGME);
(2) The Royal College of Physicians and
				Surgeons of Canada;
(3) The College
				of Family Physicians of Canada;
(4)
				The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh;
(5) The Royal College of Surgeons of
				England;
(6) The Royal College of
				Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; or
(7) The Royal College of Surgeons in
				Ireland.