§ 17.1. License without restriction.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) and § 17.2 (relating to license without restrictionendorsement), to secure a license without restriction an applicant shall:
(1) Have passed a licensing examination acceptable to the Board by having achieved one of the following:
(i) A passing score on Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 of the USMLE as determined by USMLE completed within a 7-year period.
(ii) A score of 75 on FLEX I and a score of 75 on FLEX II, as determined by the Federation.
(iii) A score of 75, obtained in an individual attempt, on the licensing examination provided by the Federation from June 1968 to December 1984.
(iv) A passing score as determined by the NBME on the National Boards.
(v) A passing score on Part I of the National Boards or Step 1 of the USMLE plus Part II of the National Boards or Step 2 of the USMLE plus Part III of the National Boards or Step 3 of the USMLE completed within a 7-year period.
(vi) A score of 75 on FLEX I and Step 3 of the USMLE completed within a 7-year period.
(vii) A passing score on Part I of the National Boards or Step 1 of the USMLE plus Part II of the National Boards or Step 2 of the USMLE plus FLEX II completed within a 7-year period.
(viii) A passing score, as determined by the Medical Council of Canada, on the examination of the Medical Council of Canada taken in or after May 1970, if the examination was taken in English.
(ix) A passing score, as determined by the licensing authority of another state, territory or possession of the United States, on a state board examination taken prior to December 1973, if the examination was taken in English.
(2) Have graduated from an accredited medical college or from an unaccredited medical college.
(3) Have been certified by the ECFMG if the applicant is a graduate of an unaccredited medical college.
(4) Have successfully completed the following graduate medical training requirement:
(i) A year of graduate medical training at a first or second-year level if the applicant is a graduate of an accredited or unaccredited medical college and participated in a graduate medical training program prior to June 30, 1987.
(ii) Two years of graduate medical training at a first and second-year level if the applicant is a graduate of an accredited medical college and did not participate in a graduate medical training program prior to June 30, 1987.
(iii) Three years of graduate medical training at a first, second and third-year level if the applicant is a graduate of an unaccredited medical college and did not participate in a graduate medical training program prior to June 30, 1987.
(5) Satisfy the general qualifications for a license specified in § 16.12 (relating to general qualifications for licenses and certificates).
(b) An applicant who is a graduate of an unaccredited medical college, who files an application for a license after December 31, 1988the application is not considered filed with the Board until it is completeshall, in addition to satisfying the requirements in subsection (a), have completed:
(1) Four academic years totaling at least 32 months and 4,000 hours of instruction in medical curriculum. Regular attendance shall be verified. Credit will not be given toward this requirement for instruction obtained in other than an accredited or unaccredited medical college, except for clinical rotations assigned under the auspices of the medical college in which the applicant was enrolled while participating in the clinical rotations.
(2) Seventy-two weeks of clinical rotations in an institution which has a graduate medical training program in the clinical area for which credit is sought, or, if the institution is not within the United States, is either a part of a medical college or has a formal affiliation with a medical college.
