Florida Medical Board News

Amazingly, MedLicense.com licensed a Physician with the Florida Medical Board in 43 Days. License # ME 99495 was issued on 07/13/2007. The application was submitted to the Florida Medical Board on 06/01/2007. The verifications (11 total) were requested on 06/03/2007. The last verification was confirmed as being received 06/18/2007. We cannot guarantee that the Florida Medical License licensure times with Florida such as this, but we can guarantee that the same process which achieved these results for our client will be provided to you and your application.

As of May 2007, the Florida Medical Board no longer requires Physicians who have a clean personal and practice history to have their applications presented before the Full Board Meeting. On the surface this might not seem like a big issue but it actually is. The Florida Medical Board will now allow the license to be issued internally once the file clears the 2nd Review (Management Review). Previous to May 2007, the Florida Medical Board required that the doctor's file be completed 2 to 3 weeks before the monthly Board Meeting in order to have the file presented at the Board Meeting. Once the Board approved the application, the Physician had to wait 2 weeks for the license number. Now with the recent changes, the license will be available 4 to 8 weeks sooner than with the old system.

Now Florida has changed their internal process so as to allow the Physician or Licensing Company to handle the Privilege Hospital Verification and Internship/Residency/Fellowship Verification. This is going to shave weeks to months off the licensing time for the average physician. The Florida Medical License typically takes 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 months for the licensing process to work itself out. The reasons in the past have been two fold. The first was the FBI / FDLE Background checks. The Fingerprint Cards take 4 to 12 weeks to clear. This part of the process has not changed. The second reason why was the verification process connected with the Privilege Hospitals and Training Hospitals. Because of the recent change, we expect the licensure time will become more abbreviated when compared to the process before the change.

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