How to begin to practice medicine in Puerto Rico
Ramírez Rivera, J.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 73(9): 442-447
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 6949594 Document Number: 701144
We have gathered the information applicable to students of Medicine recently graduated about the law that regulates the practice of medicine in Puerto Rico including the amendments of June 1980. Current information about how to obtain the examination of the Puerto Rico Board of Medical Examiners, the new requirements needed to obtain the Provisional Licenses for postgraduate training (internship and residency), for the obligated year of Government Service and for the Regular License are reviewed. After December 1980 there is reasonable assurance that internships in government hospitals will pay an stipend and subsidies amounting to $880.00 (eight hundred and eighty dollars) a month tax free. We have tabulated the number of internships in the 24 programs available. Even though the number of internships in the last four years has increased from 273 to 452 it is quite likely that physicians with marginal credentials have a difficult time finding one. After July 1980 the unauthorized practice of medicine is considered serious offense. It may be reason enough for a permanent rejection of an application for the coveted license to practice medicine.
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