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PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN MEDICAL PRACTICE, LICENSURE AND REGULATION
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) is a national non-profit organization representing the 70 medical and osteopathic boards of the United States and its territories. The FSMB leads by promoting excellence in medical practice, licensure, and regulation as the national resource and voice on behalf of state medical and osteopathic boards in their protection of the public.

Mark your calendar for the FSMB’s 101st Annual Meeting Join us this year at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, April 18-20, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts! The Annual Meeting is comprised of an intensive three-day program that brings together national experts in the field of medical licensure and discipline to discuss a wide range of subjects relevant to medical regulators. Registration information is now available. FSMB Endorses U.S. House Measure to Expand Residency Training The FSMB strongly endorsed “The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction and Graduate Medical Education Accountability and Transparency Act” (H.R. 6352), proposed legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would create 15,000 new residency training positions in the United States and add much-needed physicians to the nation’s health care workforce. The bill is critically needed to help address the looming shortage of physicians, which is expected to worsen rapidly over the next two decades. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts the physician shortage will reach 130,000 by 2025. Learn more FSMB Receives Grant to Facilitate Medical Licensure Portability The FSMB has been awarded a three-year grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to continue initiatives currently underway to streamline the state medical licensure process and reduce statutory and regulatory barriers to telemedicine. The grant is the third the FSMB has received from HRSA since 2006 to facilitate license portability. The new grant will support these ongoing initiatives: Increasing usage of the Uniform Application for Physician State Licensure (UA) Reducing credentialing redundancies amongst licensure jurisdictions Developing licensure models to facilitate multi-state practice Learn more Medical Licensing and Discipline in America Medical Licensing and Discipline in America, a book focusing on the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical antecedents in the 18th and 19th century to its modern structure, is now available for pre-sale through Lexington Books. Authors David A. Johnson and Humayun J. Chaudhry provide an organizational history of the Federation of State Medical Boards and its role in the major issue of licensing and discipline in the 20th century: uniformity in medical statute, evaluation of international medical graduates, nationally administered examinations for licensure, etc. The book also documents such milestones as the national shift toward greater public accountability by state medical boards as evidenced by California’s inclusion of public members on its medical board, New Mexico’s requirement for continuing medical education by physicians as a condition for license renewal and the Federation’s policy development work advocating for both initiatives among all state medical boards. Expanded edition of Responsible Opioid Prescribing Now Available The FSMB Foundation has released a newly revised second edition of Responsible Opioid Prescribing. The expanded edition offers important new material, including research on opioid prescribing not available when the first edition was published in 2007, and updated recommendations for prescribers. Responsible Opioid Prescribing: A Clinician's Guide offers clinicians effective strategies for reducing the risk of addiction, abuse and diversion of opioids that they prescribe for their patients in pain. Written by pain medicine specialist Scott M. Fishman, M.D., this revised and expanded edition offers important new material, including research on opioid prescribing that was not available when the first edition was published in 2007, and updated recommendations for prescribers. The update is especially important given the rise of opioid abuse and related deaths in the United States as well as the ongoing need for legitimate patient access to pain medications. Click here for more information. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next

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