Missouri HB 2753: Modifies provisions relating to the licensure of physicians

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2753
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE KEATHLEY.
5558H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 334.031 and 334.035, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
relating to licensure of physicians.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 334.031 and 334.035, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections
2 enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 334.031 and 334.035, to read as follows:
334.031. 1. (1) Candidates for licenses as physicians and surgeons shall furnish
2 [satisfactory evidence of their good moral character, and their preliminary qualifications, to
3 wit: a certificate of graduation from an accredited high school or its equivalent, and
4 satisfactory evidence of completion of preprofessional education consisting of a minimum of
5 sixty semester hours of college credits in acceptable subjects leading towards the degree of
6 bachelor of arts or bachelor of science from an accredited college or university. They shall
7 also furnish satisfactory evidence of having attended throughout at least four terms of thirty-
8 two weeks of actual instructions in each term and of having received a diploma from some
9 reputable medical college or osteopathic college that enforces requirements of four terms of
10 thirty-two weeks for actual instruction in each term, including, in addition to class work, such
11 experience in operative and hospital work during the last two years of instruction as is
12 required by the American Medical Association and the American Osteopathic Association
13 before the college is approved and accredited as reputable. Any medical college approved
14 and accredited as reputable by the American Medical Association or the Liaison Committee
15 on Medical Education and any osteopathic college approved and accredited as reputable by
16 the American Osteopathic Association is deemed to have complied with the requirements of
17 this subsection]:
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

18 (a) Evidence of good moral character by submitting to a criminal background
19 check as provided in section 43.540;
20 (b) A diploma and academic transcripts from a school accredited by the Liaison
21 Committee on Medical Education, the Commission on Osteopathic College
22 Accreditation, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
23 (ECFMG), or a similar accrediting agency; and
24 (c) A certificate demonstrating that the applicant has successfully completed a
25 postgraduate internship or resident training in a hospital approved for such training by
26 the board. An applicant who holds a valid certificate issued by the ECFMG shall
27 submit satisfactory evidence of successful completion of two years of such training.
28 (2) Except as provided in subsection 3 of this section, the board shall not require
29 applicants to provide information in addition to the information the applicant is
30 required to furnish under this subsection.
31 2. In determining the qualifications necessary for licensure as a qualified physician
32 and surgeon, the board, by rule and regulation, may accept the certificate of the National
33 Board of Medical Examiners of the United States, chartered pursuant to the laws of the
34 District of Columbia, of the National Board of Examiners for Osteopathic Physicians and
35 Surgeons chartered pursuant to the laws of the state of Indiana, or of the Licentiate of the
36 Medical Counsel of Canada (LMCC) in lieu of and as equivalent to its own professional
37 examination. Every applicant for a license on the basis of such certificate, upon making
38 application showing necessary qualifications as provided in subsection 1 of this section, shall
39 be required to pay the same fee required of applicants to take the examination before the
40 board.
41 3. The board may require applicants to list all licenses to practice as a physician
42 currently or previously held in any other state, territory, or country and to disclose any
43 past or pending investigations, discipline, or sanctions against each such license.
44 Applicants shall not be required to submit verification of such licensure or any
45 investigations, discipline, or sanctions, but the board may require applicants to provide
46 anyauthorizationnecessaryfortheboardtoindependentlyverifytheexistenceorstatus
47 of an applicant's licensure to practice as a physician in any other state, territory, or
48 country.
49 4. In addition to the criminal background screening required by this section, the
50 board may obtain a report on the applicant from the National Practitioner Data Bank.
51 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the board does not approve or
52 deny an application submitted by a candidate for licensure as a p