Board Certified

[Noory86]

Will you be board certified by passing Step 3 and completing AT LEAST one year of residency? Just curious..

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[Mobius1985]

Will you be board certified by passing Step 3 and completing AT LEAST one year of residency? Just curious..

You can be licenced by your state to practice medicine and to prescribe medication independently after completing one year of residency and passing Steps I-III. You need to complete a residency (3-5 years of post-med school training) and take a Boards examination (written and/also possibly oral (some also require case lists) in your specialty to be Board Certified.

 

[elwademd]

as stated above, you are not eligible to take the boards (board eligible/be) until you complete residency. if you take and pass the boards, you are then board certified (bc).

however, you do not need to be board eligible nor board certified to practice medicine. in other words, in plenty of states, you can start practicing after you complete your internship year and pass all 3 steps. it may be difficult to get hospital privileges, and you likely won't be able to secure contracts on your own, but you can certainly work in urgent care, or be a staff physician in someone's office.