Resolution Opposing the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

Resolution Opposing the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

Resolution Opposing the Federation of State Medical Boards’

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

Summary

Opposes participation with the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Interstate Medical Licensure Compact on several grounds, including the compact’s definition of a physician as a person who “holds specialty certification or a time-unlimited specialty certificate.”

Model Resolution

WHEREAS, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact will supersede a state’s autonomy and control over the practice of medicine; and

WHEREAS, the Interstate Commission under the Compact will likely cause changes to the state Medical Practice Act; and

WHEREAS, there will be a significant cost to each participating state in joining such an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; and

WHEREAS, it will be difficult and expensive for a state to extricate itself from the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; and

WHEREAS, the cost of obtaining medical licenses will be dramatically increased, and a state must protect its citizens from regulatory excesses; and

WHEREAS, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact’s definition of a physician is at variance with all other State Medical Boards, defining a physician as a person who “holds specialty certification or a time-unlimited specialty certificate.”

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that {insert state legislature} is opposed to any participation with the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.

Approved by the ALEC Board of Directors January 9, 2015.