2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 27 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 1 - Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery
Subchapter I - Board of Medical Examiners
§ 4. Examinations

(a) Medical licensing examination.

• (1) No person shall receive a license to practice medicine in the jurisdiction unless the person has passed an examination or examinations satisfactory to the Board.

• (2) The Board shall approve the preparation and administration of an examination or examinations in English which it deems must be satisfactorily passed as part of its procedure for determining an applicant's qualification for the practice of medicine. Examinations shall be scored in a way to ensure the anonymity of applicants.

• (3) The Board shall stipulate the score required for passing the examination(s). The required passing score shall be set before the administration of the examination(s).

• (4) The Board may limit the number of times an examination may be taken, to require applicants to pass all examinations within a specified period of time, and to specify further medical education required for applicants unable to do so.

• (5) An applicant shall pay all examination fees prior to the examination being administered and no later than a date set by the Board.

(b) Examination application. To apply for examination, an applicant shall provide the Board or its agent and attest to the following information and documentation no later than a date set by the Board:

• (1) the applicant's full name and all aliases or other names ever used, current address, Social Security Number and date and place of birth;

• (2) a recent signed photograph or other documentation of identity;

• (3) the name and location of the medical school of graduation, degree earned and date of graduation;

• (4) a history of graduate medical education, including the name and address of all programs and hospitals;

• (5) the original of all documents and credentials or notarized photocopies or other verification of such documents and credentials acceptable to the Board or its agent; and

• (6) any other information or documentation the Board or its agent determines necessary.

(c) Examination security. Any individual found by the Board to have engaged in conduct that subverts or attempts to subvert the medical licensing examination process shall, at the discretion of the Board, have his scores on the licensing examination withheld and/or declared invalid, be disqualified from the practice of medicine and/or be subject to the imposition of other appropriate sanctions. The Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States shall be informed of all such actions.

• (1) Conduct that subverts or attempts to subvert the medical licensing examination process including, but is not limited to:

  • (A) conduct that violates the security of the examination materials, such as removing from the examination room any of the examination materials; reproducing or reconstructing any portion of the licensing examination; aiding by any means in the reproduction or reconstruction of any portion of the licensing examination; selling, distributing, buying, receiving or having unauthorized possession of any portion of a future, current or previously administered licensing examination;

  • (B) conduct that violates the standard of test administration, such as communicating with any other examinee during the administration of the licensing examination; copying answers from another examinee or permitting one's answers to be copied by another examinee during the administration of the licensing examination; having in one's possession during the administration of the licensing examination any books, notes, written or printed materials or data of any kind, other than the examination distributed; or

  • (C) conduct that violates the credentialing process, such as falsifying or misrepresenting educational credentials or other information required for admission to the licensing examination; impersonating an examinee or having an impersonator take the licensing examination on one's behalf.

• (2) The Board shall provide written notification to all applicants for medical licensure of the prohibitions on conduct that subverts or attempts to subvert the licensing examination process and of the sanctions imposed for such conduct. A copy of such notification attesting that the applicant has read and understood the notification must be signed by the applicant and filed with his or her application.