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Senate committee hears bill to make clinical-experience license for international medical graduates permanent
Summary
Senate Health and Long Term Care opened a public hearing on Jan. 31 on Senate Bill 5118, which would remove the sunset on Washington—s clinical-experience license for international medical graduates and change qualifications, including USMLE step requirements and renewal limits.
Senate Health and Long Term Care opened a public hearing on Senate Bill 5118 on Jan. 31, a measure sponsored by Sen. Javier Valdez that would remove the sunset for Washington—s time-limited clinical-experience (CE) license for international medical graduates and adjust qualifying standards.
The bill would remove a one-year state residency requirement, require only USMLE Steps 1 and 2 (instead of all steps), add physician employment groups to the list of permissible nominating organizations, create a hardship pathway for alternative assessments, lengthen potential renewals (up to three renewals for a total of eight years) and raise the supervising physician—s cap…
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