If the original license of an applicant was obtained by state
board examination, the applicant must have the state board where original
license was obtained by written examination submit a certified copy of the
examination directly to the Board.
The Board may grant licenses to Diplomates of the NBPME. If a
Diplomate of the NBPME, the applicant must have certification of endorsement
from that Board submitted directly to the Board. Applicants graduating podiatry
school on or after January 1, 2010, must take and pass all three (3) parts of
the APMLE.
In addition to the above, an individual shall meet the
following requirements:
A. Applicant
must be twenty-one (21) years of age, and of good moral character.
B. Applicant must have had at least four (4)
years high school and be graduate of same; he or she shall have at least one
(1) year pre-podiatry college education.
C. Present a diploma from a college of
podiatric medicine recognized by the Board as being in good standing, subject
to the following conditions.
1. Any diploma or
other document required to be submitted to the Board by an applicant which is
not in the English language must be accompanied by a certified translation
thereof into English.
2. No college
of podiatry or chiropody shall be accredited by the Board as a college of good
standing which does not require for graduation a course of study of at least
four (4) years (eight and one-half [81/2] months each) and be accredited by the
CPME at the time of graduation.
D. Present proof of completion of one (1)
year of APMA-approved postgraduate training in the U.S. or Canada. If the
podiatrist graduated from an accredited college of podiatric medicine prior to
1990, has continuously practiced for the past ten (10) years and has held
unrestricted license(s) to practice podiatry, the one (1) year of APMA-approved
postgraduate training may be waived at the Board's discretion.
E. Submit certified copy of birth certificate
or valid passport.
F. Submit a
certified copy of legal name change, if applicable.
G. Complete an application for podiatry
license and submit it to the Board in the manner prescribed by the Board with a
recent passport type photograph.
H.
Submit fee prescribed by the Board.
I. Submit fingerprints for state and national
criminal history background checks.
Notes
30 Miss. Code.
R. 2605-2.1
Miss. Code
Ann. ยง
73-43-11 (1972, as
amended).
Amended March 8, 2007.
Amended May 17, 2007. Amended January 24, 2008. Amended November 20, 2008.
Amended April 19, 2015. Amended November 13, 2015.
Amended
12/13/2015
Amended November 19,
1987; amended February 19, 2003; amended March 20, 2015; and amended March 16,
2017
Amended
4/23/2017
Amended
10/2/2023
