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The New York State Board for Medicine is a New York State Education Department board [1] [2] [3] responsible for licensing, monitoring, and disciplining physicians and physician assistants to uphold medical standards and protect public health.
The OPMC is charged with investigating complaints against physicians, unlicensed and licensed residents, and physician assistants in New York. In 1976, the Board for Professional Medical Conduct (BPMC) was created under the auspices of the State Health Department, and has continued in that capacity since that time. [1]
Eugene A. Stead of the Duke University Medical Center assembled the first class of physician assistants in 1965, composed of four former US Navy Hospital Corpsmen. [17] [18] He based the curriculum of the PA program on his first-hand knowledge of the fast-track training of medical doctors during World War II. [19]
The process typically requires testing by a medical board. The medical license is the documentation of authority to practice medicine within a certain locality. An active license is also required to practice medicine as an assistant physician, a physician assistant or a clinical officer in jurisdictions with authorizing legislation.
The Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) and Physician Assistant National Recertifying Exam (PANRE) are certification examinations taken by physician assistants (PAs) in the United States. The examinations are administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
The University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences (UKCHS) is a college within the University of Kentucky Medical Center focused on nine health science disciplines. It is located in the city of Lexington, Kentucky, United States. UKCHS has more than 1300 enrolled students with more than 68 faculty and is becoming more and more popular.
This tightening of the UK medical licensing system has largely been a response to public and government unease about a series of recent and well-publicised cases of alleged medical incompetence, including the Harold Shipman case, the Alder Hey organs scandal [11] and those involving David Southall, Rodney Ledward [12] and Richard Neale. [13]
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS), the official certifying body for the American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS) is a non-profit umbrella organization for sixteen medical specialty boards that certifies and re-certifies physicians in fourteen medical specialties in the United States and Canada.