FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 704
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR ESLINGER.
2719S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal sections 334.031 and 334.035, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
relating to applicants for physician licenses.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 33 4.031 and 334.035, RSMo, are 1
repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be 2
known as sections 334.031 and 334.035, to read as follows:3
334.031. 1. Candidates for licenses as physicians and 1
surgeons shall furnish satisfactory evidence of their good 2
moral character, and their preliminary qualifications, to 3
wit: a certificate of graduation from an accredited high 4
school or its equivalent, and satisfactory evidence of 5
completion of preprofessional education consisting of a 6
minimum of sixty semester hours of college credits in 7
acceptable subjects leading towards the degree of bachelor 8
of arts or bachelor of science from an accredited college or 9
university. They shall also furnish satisfactory evidence 10
of having attended throughou t at least four terms of thirty - 11
two weeks of actual instructions in each term and of having 12
received a diploma from some reputable medical college or 13
osteopathic college that enforces requirements of four terms 14
of thirty-two weeks for actual instructio n in each term, 15
including, in addition to class work, such experience in 16
operative and hospital work during the last two years of 17
instruction as is required by the American Medical 18 SB 704 2
Association and the American Osteopathic Association before 19
the college is approved and accredited as reputable. Any 20
medical college approved and accredited as reputable by the 21
American Medical Association or the Liaison Committee on 22
Medical Education and any osteopathic college approved and 23
accredited as reputable by t he American Osteopathic 24
Association is deemed to have complied with the requirements 25
of this subsection. 26
2. In determining the qualifications necessary for 27
licensure as a qualified physician and surgeon, the board, 28
by rule and regulation, may acc ept the certificate of the 29
National Board of Medical Examiners of the United States, 30
chartered pursuant to the laws of the District of Columbia, 31
of the National Board of Examiners for Osteopathic 32
Physicians and Surgeons chartered pursuant to the laws o f 33
the state of Indiana, or of the Licentiate of the Medical 34
Counsel of Canada (LMCC) in lieu of and as equivalent to its 35
own professional examination. Every applicant for a license 36
on the basis of such certificate, upon making application 37
showing necessary qualifications as provided in subsection 1 38
of this section, shall be required to pay the same fee 39
required of applicants to take the examination before the 40
board. 41
3. An application submitted by a candidate shall be 42
deemed approved and such candidate licensed in good standing 43
forty-five days after such application is received by the 44
board. 45
334.035. 1. Except as otherwise provided in section 1
334.036, every applicant for a permanent license as a 2
physician and surgeon s hall provide the board with 3
satisfactory evidence of having successfully completed such 4 SB 704 3
postgraduate training in hospitals or medical or osteopathic 5
colleges as the board may prescribe by rule. 6
2. The board shall accept as satisfactory completion 7
of the training requirements of 20 CSR 2150 -2.004(2), or its 8
successor regulation, a candidate's completion of 9
unaccredited postgraduate training when the Accreditation 10
Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) does not have 11
an accredited program for the medical subspecialty, but such 12
training occurs in an ACGME -accredited teaching hospital. 13
3. The board shall not require an applicant for 14
licensure to comply with the training requirements of 20 CSR 15
2150-2.004(2), or its successor regulati on, based on the 16
applicant's postgraduate study if the applicant has been 17
licensed in good standing in another state for more than 18
three years and the applicant is employed or provides 19
medical services at a hospital, as defined in section 20
197.020, that has ACGME-accredited training programs. 21