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New Law Expands and Extends the Successful Physicians from Mexico Pilot Program​

By Aaron Bone, Chief of Legislation and Public Affairs

First authorized by a law passed in 2002 (AB 1045, Chapter 1157), a significant amount of time was needed to develop the program and start issuing physician licenses under the Licensed Physicians and Dentists from Mexico Pilot Program (pilot program). During the past few years, the Medical Board of California (Board) and Legislature have seen the success of the pilot program and how the physicians from Mexico have improved access to quality medical care for underserved communities. At Board meetings in 2022, 2023, and 2024, the Board and public heard directly from a pilot program evaluator, Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, a professor of clinical internal medicine at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine.

Based upon the pilot program's documented successes, and on-going need for culturally and linguistically competent medical care, pilot program sponsors proposed, and the Board supported, AB 2860 in 2024, which renames the pilot program as the Licensed Physicians from Mexico Program (LPMP), and authorizes it to continue for the next 20 years.

Notably, this expanded program authorizes the Board to issue an increasingly large number of three-year licenses, ultimately allowing 275 physicians from Mexico to practice under this pathway between the years 2041 and 2044. The LPMP expands the services available to patients by authorizing physicians specializing in psychiatry to seek licensure through this program, in addition to physicians specializing in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Later in 2025, the Board expects to start receiving applications under the new rules. A maximum of 155 physicians are authorized to have a license under the LPMP between 2025 and 2029.

Full details on the LPMP are available by reading the language of AB 2860 or the staff analysis of the bill, published for the November 21-22, 2024, Quarterly Board Meeting.

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[Agast]

It boils down to whether it makes more sense for foreign trained physicians to have a method of achieving US licensing without redoing medical school, than to expand the scope of practice for nurses with online doctorate degrees

Texas is about to make a pathway for IMGs to practice rural medicine, assuming Abbott signs the bill

 

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It boils down to whether it makes more sense for foreign trained physicians to have a method of achieving US licensing without redoing medical school, than to expand the scope of practice for nurses with online doctorate degrees

Texas is about to make a pathway for IMGs to practice rural medicine, assuming Abbott signs the bill

My former primary care doc was trained in Mexico. Excellent physician. When seeing me sometimes he would hum the tune to "Mexico" by James Taylor. Probably retired now, he moved to Grass Valley, CA. last I heard.

 

[geauxg8rs]

My former primary care doc was trained in Mexico. Excellent physician. When seeing me sometimes he would hum the tune to "Mexico" by James Taylor. Probably retired now, he moved to Grass Valley, CA. last I heard.

Great tune