Texas Medical License Denial

[Lung_Doc_12]

I’m posting this on behalf of my wife, she just completed a family residency in California and holds a valid California medical license. I am a first year pulm/crit fellow in Texas. Unfortunately, the Texas medical board just denied my wife’s application for a medical license stating that her clinical rotations in medical school “do not meet their requirements”. Both of us went to St George University in the Caribbean and did clinicals in the US.

I wanted to know what our options are, we were really looking forward to making Texas our home.

Thank you for all the advice

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[Raryn]

I’m posting this on behalf of my wife, she just completed a family residency in California and holds a valid California medical license. I am a first year pulm/crit fellow in Texas. Unfortunately, the Texas medical board just denied my wife’s application for a medical license stating that her clinical rotations in medical school “do not meet their requirements”. Both of us went to St George University in the Caribbean and did clinicals in the US.

I wanted to know what our options are, we were really looking forward to making Texas our home.

Thank you for all the advice

We have previously discussed a not too dissimilar situation @ Texas licensing question

From what I recall, if your wife is board certified, she may be able to get licensed that way.

 

[rokshana]

I’m posting this on behalf of my wife, she just completed a family residency in California and holds a valid California medical license. I am a first year pulm/crit fellow in Texas. Unfortunately, the Texas medical board just denied my wife’s application for a medical license stating that her clinical rotations in medical school “do not meet their requirements”. Both of us went to St George University in the Caribbean and did clinicals in the US.

I wanted to know what our options are, we were really looking forward to making Texas our home.

Thank you for all the advice

Were all her clinical rotations done where there is a residency or fellowship? Texas is particular about this , meaning it does not recognize a FM umbrella...if she did say a cardiology rotation somewhere, then that place had to have a cardiology fellowship , not just IM or FM.
Also the TMB required certain rotations to be done...the one that can trip people up is the need for an FM rotation.
The good news is Raryn is right, alternatively once you are board certified, the TMB doesn’t care about the clinical rotations requirement.

 

[galactus]

Get board certified, problem solved.

 

[Freedom of Thought]

Hi all. Any one from India, who going to complete residency/who recently applied for TMB licence with out board certification, please let me know. Thank you.

 

[jonathanlikes]

I’m posting this on behalf of my wife, she just completed a family residency in California and holds a valid California medical license. I am a first year pulm/crit fellow in Texas. Unfortunately, the Texas medical board just denied my wife’s application for a medical license stating that her clinical rotations in medical school “do not meet their requirements”. Both of us went to St George University in the Caribbean and did clinicals in the US.

I wanted to know what our options are, we were really looking forward to making Texas our home.

Thank you for all the advice

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise, I have a friend who lives in Galveston and he hates it. But on a more serious note, I believe that working for a federal agency might still be possible without a Texas license. I think that people can work for VA hospitals as long as they have a license in any state, doesn't have to be the one that they are working in.

 

[XenophonMD]

If Texas denies your medical license application, does it affect you ability to obtain a medical license in another state?

 

[rokshana]

If Texas denies your medical license application, does it affect you ability to obtain a medical license in another state?

It can...they usually ask of you have ever been denied a license.