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Charles Rainey, MD, JD

JAMA. 1999;281:413.

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The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently made recommendations regarding the licensing and registration of resident physicians. One concern is that current state licensure requirements can allow a resident who has been dismissed from a program to re-enter or continue residency training.

While the AMA-RFS is sensitive to the need to prevent ethically and educationally unqualified residents from pursuing graduate medical education (GME), we feel that the FSMB has overreacted. The AMA will be convening an open hearing on the subject on February 20 at the Westin O'Hare Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Here are some of the FSMB's recommendations:

• Resident physicians should be brought under the jurisdiction of the state medical board through use of a Resident Physician Permit (RPP).
  
• The RPP would be required for all residents to pursue GME. Full licensure status could not be achieved until the resident had worked for 3 years . . . [Full Text of this Article]