http://www.op.nysed.gov/article131.htm Education Law: Article 131, Medicine
http://www.op.nysed.gov/medforms.htm License Application Forms, Physician
I think you are almost right on number 1 (i.e. you don't need any extra paperwork if you are from those schools, if you aren't you need to get cleared by the Deprtment of Education by filling out additional forms), and really wrong on 2 & 3. In any case you have managed to freak me out enough so that now I have a call into the Office of the Professions, despite the fact that I think you are wrong. Congrats!
In addition to the law (link above and addressed below), a slew of anecdotal evidence (for one, there are tons of docs that are FMGs on my Unitedhealthcare's roster, and I bet you they wouldn't be approved if there were doing something untoward, and lots of IMGs working in the city, I'm sure they're not toiling away just like that, not caring if they can get licensed of not)suggests that you are wrong on the fact that licensure in NYS is limited to grads from those eight schools approved, as stated on the NYS board's site itself, approved by the New York State Education Department to allow students to complete more than 12 weeks of clinical clerkships in New York State.
St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George's, Grenada
Ross University School of Medicine, Roseau, Dominica
Fatima College of Medicine, Manila, Philippines
The Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
International Health and Medicine Program, Ben Gurion University of the Negrev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
English Language Program, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
English Language Program, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
American University of the Caribbean, St. Martin, Netherland Antilles
If you read the law (see first link above) closely, nowhere does it refer to the list of schools approved for clerkships as a limit to licensure; instead it refers to medical schools located outside the United States which are recognized by the World Health Organization.
The relevant excerpt:
To qualify for a license as a physician, an applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:
Application: file an application with the department;
Education: have received an education, including a degree of doctor of medicine, "M.D.", or doctor of osteopathy, "D.O.", or equivalent degree in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
Experience: have experience satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
Examination: pass an examination satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
Age: [...];
Citizenship or immigration status: be a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; [...];
Character: ...; and
Fees: ...
§6528. Qualification of certain applicants for licensure.
USIMGs
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article or any law to the contrary, an individual who at the time of his enrollment in a medical school outside the United States is a resident of the United States shall be eligible for licensure in this state if he has satisfied the requirements of subdivisions one, five, six, seven and eight (i.e. applied, age, citizenship or perm, resident, good moral character, and paid fees) of section sixty-five hundred twenty-four of this chapter and fulfill certain other requirements....
Importantly, a document granted by a medical school located outside the United States which is recognized by the World Health Organization issued after the completion of all the formal requirements of such foreign medical school except internship and/or social service shall, upon certification by the medical school in which such training was received of satisfactory completion by the person to whom such document was issued of the requirements listed in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of this section, be deemed the equivalent of a degree of doctor of medicine for purposes of licensure and practice as a physician in this State.
Nowhere in paragraph 3 sub a does it even mention those 8 schools.
Anyway, I'll stop my tirade now before I get even more livid by the obscene amount of disinformation promulgated in this thread.
