Application Forms

PURPOSE: This rule provides instructions for filing applications in the office of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts requesting permanent licensure in Missouri. (1) The applicant is required to make application upon the form prepared by the board. (2) No application will be considered unless fully and completely made out on the specified form and properly attested. (3) Applications shall be sent to the executive director of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, P.O. Box 4, Jefferson City, MO 65102. (4) The board shall charge an appropriate fee established by the board to each person applying to and appearing before it for examination for certificate of licensure to practice as a physician and surgeon. The fee shall be sent in the form of a bank draft, post office money order or express money order. Personal checks will not be accepted. (5) A copy of the professional degree shall be sent to the executive director of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts for verification. (6) When an applicant has one (1) or more years in a preprofessional or professional institution other than the one from which s/he is a graduate, s/he must file with the application a statement under seal from those institutions showing time spent and credit received. (7) An applicant may withdraw his/her application for licensure anytime prior to the board’s vote on his/her candidacy for licensure. In the event that an applicant withdraws his/her application, the appropriate fee established by the board will be retained by the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts as a service charge. AUTHORITY: section 334.125, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 150-2.040. Original rule filed Dec. 19, 1975, effective Dec. 29, 1975. Amended: Filed July 3, 1989, effective Dec. 1, 1989. Amended: Filed Jan. 3, 1991, effective June 10, 1991. Amended: Filed April 15, 1996, effective Nov. 30, 1996. Amended: Filed April 30, 2002, effective Nov. 30, 2002. Moved to 20 CSR 2150-2.040, effective Aug. 28, 2006. *Original authority: 334.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993, 1995. State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts of Missouri v. De Vore, 517 S.W.2d 480 (Mo. App. 1975). Administrative Hearing Commission Act section 161.252, RSMo 1969, repealed the former authority of the board to conduct evidentiary hearings on the qualifications of applicants for licensure.