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1	1	By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 1022
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2011; March 16, 2011, read
3	3	first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
4	4	April 21, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
5	5	Nays 0; April 21, 2011, sent to printer.)
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to the graduate medical training requirements for certain
11	11	foreign medical school graduates applying for a license to practice
12	12	medicine in this state.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 155.003, Occupations
15	15	Code, is amended to read as follows:
16	16	(a) To be eligible for a license under this chapter, an
17	17	applicant must present proof satisfactory to the board that the
18	18	applicant:
19	19	(1) is at least 21 years of age;
20	20	(2) is of good professional character and has not
21	21	violated Section 164.051, 164.052, or 164.053;
22	22	(3) has completed:
23	23	(A) at least 60 semester hours of college
24	24	courses, other than courses in medical school, that are acceptable
25	25	to The University of Texas at Austin for credit on a bachelor of
26	26	arts degree or a bachelor of science degree;
27	27	(B) the entire primary, secondary, and
28	28	premedical education required in the country of medical school
29	29	graduation, if the medical school is located outside the United
30	30	States or Canada; or
31	31	(C) substantially equivalent courses as
32	32	determined by board rule;
33	33	(4) is a graduate of a medical school located in the
34	34	United States or Canada and approved by the board;
35	35	(5) has either:
36	36	(A) successfully completed one year of graduate
37	37	medical training approved by the board in the United States or
38	38	Canada; or
39	39	(B) graduated from a medical school located
40	40	outside the United States or Canada and has successfully completed
41	41	two [three] years of graduate medical training approved by the
42	42	board in the United States or Canada;
43	43	(6) has passed an examination accepted or administered
44	44	by the board; and
45	45	(7) has passed a Texas medical jurisprudence
46	46	examination as determined by board rule.
47	47	SECTION 2. Section 155.004, Occupations Code, is amended to
48	48	read as follows:
49	49	Sec. 155.004. ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR
50	50	GRADUATES OF CERTAIN FOREIGN MEDICAL SCHOOLS. A license applicant
51	51	who is a graduate of a medical school that is located outside the
52	52	United States and Canada must present proof satisfactory to the
53	53	board that the applicant:
54	54	(1) is a graduate of a school whose curriculum meets
55	55	the requirements for an unapproved medical school as determined by
56	56	a committee of experts selected by the Texas Higher Education
57	57	Coordinating Board;
58	58	(2) has successfully completed[:
59	59	[(A) at least three years of graduate medical
60	60	training in the United States or Canada that was approved by the
61	61	board; or
62	62	[(B)] at least two years of graduate medical
63	63	training in the United States or Canada that was approved by the
64	64	board [and at least one year of graduate medical training outside
65	65	the United States or Canada that was approved for advanced standing
66	66	by a specialty board organization approved by the board];
67	67	(3) holds a valid certificate issued by the
68	68	Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates; and
69	69	(4) is able to communicate in English.
70	70	SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 155.005, Occupations
71	71	Code, is amended to read as follows:
72	72	(a) To be eligible for a license under this chapter, an
73	73	applicant who has been a student of a foreign medical school must
74	74	present proof satisfactory to the board that the applicant:
75	75	(1) meets the requirements of Section 155.003;
76	76	(2) has studied medicine in a medical school located
77	77	outside the United States and Canada that is acceptable to the
78	78	board;
79	79	(3) has completed all of the didactic work of the
80	80	foreign medical school but has not graduated from the school;
81	81	(4) has attained a score satisfactory to a medical
82	82	school in the United States approved by the Liaison Committee on
83	83	Medical Education on a qualifying examination and has
84	84	satisfactorily completed one academic year of supervised clinical
85	85	training for foreign medical students, as defined by the American
86	86	Medical Association Council on Medical Education (Fifth Pathway
87	87	Program), under the direction of the medical school in the United
88	88	States;
89	89	(5) has attained a passing score on the Educational
90	90	Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates examination or another
91	91	examination, if required by the board;
92	92	(6) has successfully completed at least two [three]
93	93	years of graduate medical training in the United States or Canada
94	94	that was approved by the board as of the date the training was
95	95	completed; and
96	96	(7) has passed the license examination under
97	97	Subchapter B required by the board of each applicant.
98	98	SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections
99	99	155.003, 155.004, and 155.005, Occupations Code, apply only to an
100	100	application for a license to practice medicine submitted to the
101	101	Texas Medical Board on or after the effective date of this Act. An
102	102	application for a license submitted before that date is governed by
103	103	the law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the
104	104	former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
105	105	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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