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[Winged Scapula]

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Have question on Texas Unrestricted License:
one of the requirement says "Three attempts per step." is this true?? If someone passed the stepII more than 3 times they are not eligible to apply???

second one is "You are required to pass the Texas Medical Jurisprudence examination (JP)."...how difficult is this and why do they need??

looks like the one of the stupid requirements have seen for TMB...

I'm not so sure what's stupid about requiring a medical licensee to have taken Step 2 *only* three times or less. As Apollyon notes, many states have this requirement.

There are a few threads here about the Texas Jurisprudence Exam...if you do a search you will find them and it may answer some of your questions about the difficulty.

As to why they do it-who knows, perhaps because they can.

 

[f_w]

I don't think that the requirement is that you can't pass it more than three times. I think they don't want someone who too more than three attempts to pass (the working assumption is that that person didn't get it when they where in medschool and only passed after extensive test-prep).

 

[johankriek]

Once you have the FCVS profile, it is pretty sweet. In states that accept the FCVS profile, getting additional state licenses can be a matter of days if need be.

not really.. even if fcvs has verified everything.. you still have to fill out a 10 page subsequent request form pay 2 fees(one to fcvs and one for usmle). the minimum number of people you can send to is 2.. and if anything has changed in the few years you havent sent out a request.. they have to verify.. which takes forever ... I mean forever.. its not like you call them up and say hey can you send my credentials to x state.. no way.. its a whole other process which can take like 3 weeks. talk about bull****.. I can make four phone calls and fax documents to medschool internship residency and a few states and keep bugging them until they send it.. in prolly a few days.. why it takes weeks is beyond me especially since they already verified it..

 

[johankriek]

hey what about IL? nobody mentioned this one...?

illinois was pretty simple in my opinion.. its kind of hard to get in touch with them.. I have an iL license

 

[johankriek]

i've heard horror stories from friends waiting 8 months in TX after submitting everything.
this all sounds so ridiculous, it seems that it would be so much easier to unify all liscensing boards and have one national liscense that we can practice under. heaven forbid anything would be that easy, and i thought that i was done jumping thru hoops when i graduated medical school 🙁

that would eliminate the fees they can generate... Have you looked at floridas application.. HOLY MOLY... I calculated the cost.. its 1200 dollars to florida.. plust the fcvs form plus a few other fees.. plus the fee you have to send to states just so they verify you have a license.. 50 bucks.. I have 7 state licenses.. so if 7 states verified my license to florida.. 350 bucks on top of 1200 dollars.. sounds pretty excessive in my opinion..

 

[johankriek]

a word to the wise..

take step 3 the earliest possible time available.. if you wait you will fall out of a window.. most states require that you pass step 1,2,3 within 7 years.. so if you have a long residency and fail it a few times.. you will fall out of the window.. and they will deny you a license and you will have to retake step 1 and 2 again 10 years after medical school graduation LOL. my friend is studying for step 1 now to get a Il license..

when i went for a personal appearance in indiana.. there was a radiology dude who was up for a hearing. He had taken him seven years and 3 months to complete all steps.. They said to him.. you have to retake step 1 and 2 before you can ge ta license.. he was from cali and was doing a lot of teleradiology so he needed a license. They would not give it to him.. They were such pompous dinguses..

 

[Winged Scapula]

not really.. even if fcvs has verified everything.. you still have to fill out a 10 page subsequent request form pay 2 fees(one to fcvs and one for usmle). the minimum number of people you can send to is 2.. and if anything has changed in the few years you havent sent out a request.. they have to verify.. which takes forever ... I mean forever.. its not like you call them up and say hey can you send my credentials to x state.. no way.. its a whole other process which can take like 3 weeks. talk about bull****.. I can make four phone calls and fax documents to medschool internship residency and a few states and keep bugging them until they send it.. in prolly a few days.. why it takes weeks is beyond me especially since they already verified it..

An EM friend of mine had the same experience. Used FCVS when she was first applying for jobs. Decided to move to Georgia after a few years, contacted FCVS to send her stuff to the GA state licensing board. It took 13 months, much of which was FCVS not only verifying *new* stuff but REVERIFYING her medical education, her residency, her USMLEs, etc. as if that stuff had changed. Its almost as if they don't trust their own process. 😡

 

[Winged Scapula]

a word to the wise..

take step 3 the earliest possible time available.. if you wait you will fall out of a window.. most states require that you pass step 1,2,3 within 7 years.. so if you have a long residency and fail it a few times.. you will fall out of the window.. and they will deny you a license and you will have to retake step 1 and 2 again 10 years after medical school graduation LOL. my friend is studying for step 1 now to get a Il license..

when i went for a personal appearance in indiana.. there was a radiology dude who was up for a hearing. He had taken him seven years and 3 months to complete all steps.. They said to him.. you have to retake step 1 and 2 before you can ge ta license.. he was from cali and was doing a lot of teleradiology so he needed a license. They would not give it to him.. They were such pompous dinguses..

Bad stories. Fortunately, many residency programs are now requiring people to take and pass Step 3 before they advance.