(a) The State hereby enters into the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC) the text of which is as set forth in this chapter.
(b) In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member states of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact have allied in common purpose to develop a comprehensive process that complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards, provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients. The Compact creates another pathway for licensure and does not otherwise change a state's existing Medical Practice Act. The Compact also adopts the prevailing standard for licensure and affirms that the practice of medicine occurs where the patient is located at the time of the physician-patient encounter, and therefore, requires the physician to be under the jurisdiction of the state medical board where the patient is located. State medical boards that participate in the Compact retain the jurisdiction to impose an adverse action against a license to practice medicine in that state issued to a physician through the procedures in the Compact.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 24 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 17A. Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
§ 1701A. Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; findings and declaration of purpose.
§ 1704A. Designation of state of principal license.
§ 1705A. Application and issuance of expedited licensure.
§ 1706A. Fees for expedited licensure.
§ 1707A. Renewal and continued participation.
§ 1708A. Coordinated information system.
§ 1709A. Joint investigations.
§ 1710A. Disciplinary actions.
§ 1711A. Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission.
§ 1712A. Powers and duties of the Interstate Commission.
§ 1714A. Organization and operation of the Interstate Commission.
§ 1715A. Rulemaking functions of the Interstate Commission.
§ 1716A. Oversight of the Interstate Compact.
§ 1717A. Enforcement of Interstate Compact.
§ 1720A. Member states, effective date and amendment.