TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 18

PHYSICIANS AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

54-1813.  Temporary license and registration. (1) The board may by rule provide for the issuance of a temporary license to a person licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine in some other state, territory, or district of the United States or Canada or to a person who is a diplomate of the national board of medical examiners or a diplomate of the national board of osteopathic medical examiners or to a physician assistant, excluding any volunteer license applicant, provided that such temporary license shall be issued only to persons who have made an application for a permanent license in this state. The board shall fix and collect a fee for a temporary license and it shall be valid from the date of issuance for one hundred twenty (120) days, unless extended by the board or its designated representative upon a showing of good cause.

(2)  The board may by rule provide for temporary registration of interns, residents, and experienced international medical graduates who are forcibly displaced persons. The board shall fix and collect a fee for the temporary registration and shall specify the time period of the temporary registration.

(3)  For purposes of subsection (2) of this section, "experienced international medical graduate who is a forcibly displaced person" means a person who:

(a)  Is a graduate of a medical school recognized by the board;

(b)  Is an asylee, a humanitarian parolee, or a refugee holding a customs and border protection form I-94 or an equivalent document;

(c)  Has applied for an accredited medical residency training program in Idaho;

(d)  Has at least three (3) years of practice in the person’s specialty;

(e)  Has no gap of greater than five (5) years between the person’s clinical practice and the person’s application for the accredited medical residency training program in Idaho;

(f)  Passes the occupational English test for medicine; and

(g)  Agrees to practice in a health professional shortage area, as designated by the federal government, for at least three (3) years following graduation from an accredited medical residency training program in Idaho.

History:

[54-1813, added 1977, ch. 199. sec. 13, p. 546; am. 1998, ch. 177, sec. 4, p. 662; am. 2019, ch. 26, sec. 15, p. 67; am. 2023, ch. 155, sec. 1, p. 419.]