90-9.1. Requirements for licensure as a physician under this Article.
(a) Except as provided in G.S. 90-9.2, to be eligible for licensure as a physician under this Article, an applicant shall submit proof satisfactory to the Board that the applicant meets all of the following criteria:
(1) The applicant has passed each part of an examination described in G.S. 90-10.1.
(2) The applicant has completed at least 130 weeks of medical education and satisfies any of the following:
a. The applicant is a graduate of a medical college approved by the Liaison Commission on Medical Education, the Committee for the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools, or an osteopathic college approved by the American Osteopathic Association and has successfully completed one year of training in a medical education program approved by the Board after graduation from medical school; or
b. The applicant is a graduate of a medical college approved or accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools, or an osteopathic college approved by the American Osteopathic Association, is a dentist licensed to practice dentistry under Article 2 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes, and has been certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery after having completed a residency in an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency program approved by the Board before completion of medical school.
c. The applicant may satisfy the education and graduation requirements of subdivision (2) of this subsection by providing proof of current certification by a specialty board recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties, Certificate of the College of Family Physicians, Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, American Osteopathic Association, the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, or any other specialty board the Board recognizes pursuant to rules.
(3) The applicant is of good moral character.
(b) No license may be granted to any applicant who graduated from a medical or osteopathic college that has been disapproved by the Board pursuant to rules adopted by the Board.
(c) The Board may, by rule, require an applicant to comply with other requirements or submit additional information the Board deems appropriate. (2007-346, s. 9; 2019-191, s. 11.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 90 - Medicine and Allied Occupations
Article 1 - Practice of Medicine.
§ 90-1 - North Carolina Medical Society incorporated.
§ 90-3 - Review Panel recommends certain Board members; criteria for recommendations.
§ 90-4 - Board elects officers; quorum.
§ 90-5.1 - Powers and duties of the Board.
§ 90-5.2 - Board to collect and publish certain data.
§ 90-5.3 - Reporting and publication of medical judgments, awards, payments, and settlements.
§ 90-8 - Officers may administer oaths, and subpoena witnesses, records and other materials.
§ 90-8.1 - Rules governing applicants for licensure.
§ 90-8.2 - Appointment of subcommittees.
§ 90-9.1 - Requirements for licensure as a physician under this Article.
§ 90-9.2 - Requirements for graduates of international medical schools.
§ 90-9.3 - Requirements for licensure as a physician assistant.
§ 90-9.4 - Requirements for licensure as an anesthesiologist assistant.
§ 90-10.1 - Examinations accepted by the Board.
§ 90-11 - Criminal background checks.
§ 90-12.01 - Limited license to practice in a medical education and training program.
§ 90-12.1 - Recodified as G.S90-12.4, by Session Laws 2007-346, s7, effective October 1, 2007.
§ 90-12.1A - Limited volunteer license.
§ 90-12.1B - Retired limited volunteer license.
§ 90-12.2 - Recodified as G.S90-12.5, by Session Laws 2007-346, s7, effective October 1, 2007.
§ 90-12.2A - Special purpose license.
§ 90-12.3 - Medical school faculty license.
§ 90-12.4 - Physician assistant limited volunteer license.
§ 90-12.4B - Physician Assistant retired limited volunteer license.
§ 90-12.5 - Disasters and emergencies.
§ 90-12.7 - Treatment of overdose with opioid antagonist; immunity.
§ 90-13.2 - Registration every year with Board.
§ 90-13.3 - Salaries, fees, expenses of the Board.
§ 90-14 - Disciplinary Authority.
§ 90-14.1 - Judicial review of Board's decision denying issuance of a license.
§ 90-14.2 - Hearing before disciplinary action.
§ 90-14.3 - Service of notices.
§ 90-14.5 - Use of recommended decisions; appointment of hearing officers.
§ 90-14.6 - Evidence admissible.
§ 90-14.7 - Procedure where person fails to request or appear for hearing.
§ 90-14.8 - Appeal from Board's decision taking disciplinary action on a license.
§ 90-14.9 - Appeal bond; stay of Board order.
§ 90-14.11 - Appeal; appeal bond.
§ 90-15 - Recodified as G.S90-13.1, by Session Laws 2007-346, s7, effective October 1, 2007.
§ 90-15.1 - Recodified as G.S90-13.2, by Session Laws 2007-346, s7, effective October 1, 2007.
§ 90-18 - Practicing without license; penalties.
§ 90-18.1 - Limitations on physician assistants.
§ 90-18.2 - Limitations on nurse practitioners.
§ 90-18.3 - Medical or physical examination by nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
§ 90-18.4 - Limitations on clinical pharmacist practitioners.
§ 90-18.5 - Limitations on anesthesiologist assistants.
§ 90-18.6 - Requirements for certain nicotine replacement therapy programs.