Washington Medical Board / Medical Quality Assurance Commission – MD Board

The Washington Medical Board's process is in the middle of the road when it comes to difficulty. The MQAC has the typical requirements for Domestic and Foreign Graduates. A temporary license is offered to those physicians who do not have any malpractice or negative issues in their background. The process with the Washington Medical Board can go very quickly and smoothly if the Board doesn't loose the Physicians' Transcripts. For what ever reason, the Washington Medical Board has an extremely difficult time of processing transcripts through their mail room. This is especially true for Physician's with issues in their past or who are foreign trained. One one Physician who had multiple negatives, the Washington Board lost his transcripts no less then 6 times. This was the last item which remained in order that his file would be completed. The transcripts were sent to the Washington Medical Board 3 times by Fedex by the Medical School and the first two attempts could not be found even through a signature proof was provided by Fedex from the Washington Medical Board. Because of this we recommend that the transcripts be sent from the Medical School to the Medical Board by Registered, Signature Required Mail or Courier.

The Washington Medical Board is unique in its' allowance of Puerto Rico Licensed Physicians to apply using their Puerto Rico Medical Board Scores in the place of the USMLE, FLEX, or NBME. The Washington Medical Board does require that all foreign trained Physicians have a valid ECFMG Certificate. This includes any Foreign Trained Physicians who took Puerto Rico Medical Board Examination.