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The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) of the United States is a national non-profit organization that represents the 71 state medical and osteopathic boards of the United States and its territories and co-sponsors the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Medical boards license physicians, investigate complaints, discipline those ...
The Medical Board of California (MBC) is a state government agency which licenses and disciplines physicians, surgeons and certain allied healthcare professionals in California. The Board provides two principal types of services to consumers: (1) public-record information about California-licensed physicians, and (2) investigation of complaints ...
[1] [2] Politicians opposed to the creation of a state medical society suspected that doctors sought to create a monopoly and increase their income. [2] [3] Physicians assured the governor of Connecticut that a medical society with a licensing board would benefit citizens by providing protection from quack doctors and uneducated practitioners. [4]
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is the state department responsible for public health in California. It is a subdivision of the California Health and Human Services Agency . It enforces some of the laws in the California Health and Safety Codes , notably the licensing of some types of healthcare facilities.
West Virginia, [19] the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time upheld a state physician licensing law. A practitioner with insufficient credentials to obtain a medical license sued West Virginia, claiming a violation of his rights under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court upheld the statute noting that, while each ...
A new policy by the California DMV allows seniors 70 and older with clean driving records to renew their licenses without having to take an online course or test.
The State of Illinois requires four exams to become a nail stylist. [5] On the other hand, there are states which do not license potentially dangerous professions such as radiologic technicians, despite their delivering ionizing radiation to the general public. This is an example of a less-standardized licensure that is part of the licensing ...
Many state bar associations, including Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, offer board certification in various specialty areas, such as admiralty law, civil trial law, estate planning (or wills, trusts, and estates) law, family (and/or marital) law, immigration law ...