Alabama this week became the seventh state to pass legislation to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact that will ease medical licensure burdens in some states. Passage of this seventh state launches the compact, and work to create an interstate commission that will oversee the compact will begin.

The compact is designed to facilitate a speedier process with fewer administrative burdens for physicians seeking licensure in multiple states.

Here’s how:
The commission also will create and enforce rules governing this process, but will not have authority over a state’s medical practice act. Each state participating in the compact will have two representatives on the commission.
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