New Jersey Board of Medicine – MD Board

The New Jersey Board of Medicine is actually one of the more enjoyable State Medical Boards to work with concerning the medical licensing process. The Staff is extremely helpful. If a physician has problems or issues, the Board is one of the more fairer Boards in the nation. Our opinion concerning the New Jersey State Medical Board has shifted over the past 4 years from one to disfavor to one of favor. 

The licensing process with New Jersey is straightforward. There are no mandatory board appearances. The New Jersey Medical Board does not have a 10 year rule or SPEX requirement. All Employment, Privileges, and Malpractice Insurance has to be verified for the past 5 years. The Medical School and all College since High School has to be verified. There is a fingerprint/LiveScan  requirement. In all cases we recommend that the LiveScan be utilized instead of the Fingerprint Cards. The AMA Physician Profile has to be requested. There are no Clinical Clerkship verification requirements. (Big plus for Caribbean trained physicians)  MedLicense.com is typically finished with the New Jersey Physician Licensing process within 4 to 8 weeks. The Board typically issues the license after the fingerprint cards are returned by the FBI (8 to 12 weeks) or in the event that the LiveScan is utilized, within a week or two after the last verification is received. 

The process of licensure with the New Jersey Medical Board before May 2005 use to be a long grueling process. 6 to 9 month licensing periods were the norm. The only exceptions were those physicians who had immediate job offers. Those physicians would be "placed at the front of the line" at the detriment of those physicians who did not have job offers. Since May 2005 we have noticed a major shift in the processing time for the  New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners. In the past our policy was to inform all physicians applying for a New Jersey Medical License  that the New Jersey Medical Board typically took 4 to 7 months to process new New Jersey Medical License applications.  The New Jersey Medical Board does allow physicians to have their New Jersey Medical License applications expedited if they had a job offer in New Jersey. Recently the trend at the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners has been to move the applications through their review process at a faster pace. The last 10 licenses we had issued at New Jersey were processed and issued between 3 to 4 months. We cannot promise that this trend will continue but it seems that the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners has reduced their backlog so as to provide comparable processing times with the majority of the other State Medical Boards.