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  • Endorsement Requirements
  • Examination Requirements
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  • Office Surgery Registration
  • Pain Clinic Registration
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  • Application for Licensure
  • Dispensing Practitioner Registration Form
  • Limited Licensure Application
  • Medical Faculty Certificate
  • Physician in Training Registration
  • Temp. Application for Military Spouses
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  • Dispensing Practitioner Information
  • Fingerprint Card Instructions
  • Medical Assistants
  • Registration Requirements

Application and License Requirements for Osteopathic Physicians

Apply for Licensure: Obtain applications and review requirements and other licensure information by clicking on the Applications and Forms, and Requirements and Other Info buttons above.

Continuing Education: Click here for information regarding continuing education requirements for initial licensure.   It is also strongly recommended that you review all of the laws and rules regulating this profession.

Exam: Anyone applying for licensure must have passed all three parts of the examination conducted by the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME) or other substantially similar examination approved by the board.

If you have not taken and passed all three parts of the examination offered by the NBOME, you must demonstrate to the Board that the examination that you did take and pass is substantially similar to all three parts of the NBOME. Please view Licensure Examination Requirements for additional information.

Fingerprints: Effective October 1, 2007, the Division of Medical Quality Assurance will begin scanning fingerprint cards and electronically submitting fingerprints to FDLE/FBI for background screening.  The FDLE/FBI fee is reduced to $48.00.  A fingerprint card is required from all applicants taking the Medicine licensure examination, but it cannot be downloaded to your computer or emailed, it can only be sent by mail.  Visit our Background Screening page for more information regarding who is required to submit fingerprints.

How to Submit Prints

LOGON to the Department of Health MQA Candidate Fingerprint Registration Site: www.fldoh.sofn.net.

REGISTER:

1. ENTER personal demographic data required to submit fingerprints.
2. OPTION to purchase FD 258 fingerprint cards.

   Note: If you chose not to purchase a fingerprint card you must make sure the police department or agency you choose to roll your fingerprints uses an FD 258. If the FD 258 is not used the fingerprints will not be accepted, you will be required to have another set rolled and your application will be delayed.

3. PAY: If fingerprint cards are purchased.
   1. $4.00 for regular USPS mail
   2. $10 for priority mail
4. OBTAIN RECEIPT generated online. Print the Bar Code Receipt and mail it to the address listed on the receipt with the completed fingerprint cards.