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(1) The Board of Medicine and Surgery may approve without examination:

(a) Any person who after examination has been duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery in some other state or territory of the United States of America or in the District of Columbia under conditions and circumstances which the board finds to be comparable to the requirements of the State of Nebraska for obtaining a license to practice medicine and surgery;

(b) Any person who is a graduate of an accredited college or school of medicine and surgery located in the Canadian provinces and who has satisfactorily completed the Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada examination and has been duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery in Canada under conditions and circumstances which the board finds to be comparable to the requirements of the State of Nebraska for obtaining a license to practice medicine and surgery; or

(c) Any person who is a foreign medical graduate and who has not graduated from an accredited school or college of medicine of the United States or Canada but who has satisfactorily completed the Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada examination and who possesses a certificate issued by the Educational Commission on Foreign Medical Graduates, or its equivalent as provided for in section 71-1,104, and has been duly licensed to practice in Canada under conditions and circumstances which the board finds to be comparable to the requirements of the State of Nebraska for obtaining a license to practice medicine and surgery.

(2) The applicant shall produce evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she has had the required secondary and professional education and training and is possessed of good character and morals as required by the laws of the State of Nebraska. The applicant shall also produce evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she has met the requirements of subdivision (1)(d) of section 71-1,104 and shall submit a certificate of the proper licensing authority of the state, the territory, the District of Columbia, or Canada where he or she is licensed to practice such profession, that the applicant is duly licensed, that his or her license has not been suspended or revoked, and that so far as the records of such authority are concerned, the applicant is entitled to its endorsement.

(3) If the applicant is found by the board to meet the requirements provided in this section and to be qualified to be licensed to practice the profession of medicine and surgery in the State of Nebraska, the board shall certify such fact to the department and the department upon receipt of such certification shall issue a license to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Nebraska to such applicant.

Laws 1965, c. 411, § 2, p. 1317

Laws 1969, c. 560, § 5, p. 2280

Laws 1974, LB 811, § 8

Laws 1979, LB 34, § 1

Laws 1984, LB 481, § 17

Laws 1988, LB 1100, § 15

Laws 1999, LB 828, § 38

Laws 2002, LB 1062, § 13