Wisconsin Administrative Code › Medical Examining Board › Chapter Med 1 - License To Practice Medicine And Surgery › Section Med 1.02 - Applications and credentials

Current through June 24, 2024
Every person applying for regular license to practice medicine
				and surgery shall make application therefor on forms provided for this purpose
				by the board and shall submit to the board the following:
(1) A completed and verified application
			 form.
(2) Verified documentary
			 evidence of graduation from a medical or osteopathic school approved by the
			 board. The board recognizes as approved those medical or osteopathic schools
			 accredited at the time of the applicant's graduation therefrom by the American
			 Osteopathic Association, or the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, or
			 their successors. If an applicant is not a graduate of a medical school
			 approved by the board, but is a graduate of a medical school recognized and
			 listed as such by the World Directory of Medical Schools or its predecessor the
			 International Medical Education Directory, such applicant shall submit verified
			 documentary evidence of graduation from such school and also verified
			 documentary evidence of having passed the examinations required by the
			 Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates or successors, and shall also
			 present for the board's inspection the originals thereof, and if such medical
			 school requires either social service or internship or both of its graduates,
			 and if the applicant has not completed either such required social service or
			 internship or both, such applicant shall also submit verified documentary
			 evidence of having completed a 12 month supervised clinical training program
			 under the direction of a medical school approved by the board.
(3)
(a)
			 Verification of satisfactory completion by the applicant of 24 months of
			 postgraduate training in one or more programs accredited by the Accreditation
			 Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association,
			 or a successor organization; or documentary evidence that the applicant is
			 currently enrolled in a postgraduate training program accredited by the
			 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic
			 Association, or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, or a
			 successor organization and has received credit for 12 consecutive months of
			 postgraduate training in that program and an unrestricted endorsement from the
			 postgraduate training director that the applicant is expected to complete at
			 least 24 months of postgraduate training.
(b) If an applicant is a graduate of a
			 foreign allopathic or osteopathic medical school, then the applicant must
			 provide a verified certificate showing satisfactory completion of 24 months of
			 postgraduate training in one or more programs accredited by the Accreditation
			 Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association,
			 the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, or a successor
			 organization; or documentary evidence that the applicant is currently enrolled
			 in a postgraduate training program accredited by the Accreditation Council for
			 Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association, the Royal
			 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, or a successor organization and
			 has received credit for 12 consecutive months of postgraduate training in that
			 program and an unrestricted endorsement from the postgraduate training director
			 that the applicant is expected to complete at least 24 months of postgraduate
			 training.
(c) If the applicant
			 possesses a medical license issued by another jurisdiction and has not
			 completed 24 months of postgraduate training approved by the board and is not
			 currently enrolled in a postgraduate training program but the applicant has
			 other professional experience which the applicant believes has given that
			 applicant the education and training substantially equivalent to 24 months of
			 postgraduate training, then the applicant may submit the documented education
			 and training demonstrating substantially equivalent education and training. The
			 board will review the documented education and training and may make further
			 inquiry, including a personal interview of the applicant, as the board deems
			 necessary to determine whether substantial equivalence in fact exists. The
			 burden of proof of such equivalence shall lie upon the applicant. If the board
			 finds that the documented education and training is substantially equivalent to
			 the required training and experience the board may grant a waiver of the
			 requirements under par. (a) or (b).
(cm) An applicant may apply to the board for
			 waiver of the requirements of par. (a) or (b) on grounds of prolonged illness
			 or disability or other similar hardship, and each case will be considered
			 individually on its merits by the board.
(d) The board approves of the training
			 programs accredited by the following organizations: the Accreditation Council
			 for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association, the
			 Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the American Association of Colleges of
			 Osteopathic Medicine, and the National Joint Committee on Approval of
			 Pre-Registration of Physician Training Programs of Canada, or their successor
			 organizations.