510:10-3-1
General licensure requirements

(a) Licensure by Board required. It is the general requirement in the State of Oklahoma that practitioners of osteopathic medicine and surgery be licensed by the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners. (b) Temporary license. The Osteopathic Medicine Act does not authorize the Board to issue a temporary license for any purpose. (c) Postgraduate training. One year of postgraduate training is a requirement for licensure. This experience must be in the form of a rotating internship or its equivalent, in an accredited internship or residency program acceptable to the Board. To be deemed equivalent to a rotating internship and, acceptable to the Board, a program must provide the following: (1) The program must provide the following core experience: (A) One (1) month - General Practice (B) Two (2) months - General Internal Medicine (C) One (1) month - General Surgery (D) One (1) month - Obstetrics/Gynecology (E) One (1) month - Pediatrics (2) This core experience must be supplemented by three (3) months of Selectives and three (3) months of Electives, accounting for a total of twelve (12) months. A Selective may be defined as any core category or Emergency Medicine. An Elective may be any category of experience chosen by the intern or resident. (3) If an applicant has completed an ACGME accredited residency training program and become specialty board eligible or attained specialty board certification, the Board may consider this standing as equivalent training. (d) Application. All candidates for examination or licensure must make application on a form furnished by the Board. No application will be approved until fully complete, in every respect, including photograph and fingerprints, with non-refundable fee paid. In addition to the application form, each candidate must also provide the following materials: (1) Two letters of reference from Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine who know the applicant personally. These may be worded in any appropriate manner, but they should specifically state a recommendation for licensure in the State of Oklahoma. Each letter must be notarized. (2) Photocopies of all of the items in (A) through (D) of this paragraph must be notarized as true copies of the originals. (A) the diploma conferring the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree; (B) the postgraduate training certificate for both internship and residency, as applicable; (C) certificate of specialty board certification, as applicable; (D) the license being used as a basis for reciprocity (which must be by examination), if applicable, or the Certificate of Diplomacy of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, if that is the basis of the application. (3) Letters of good standing which state no disciplinary actions were taken against the candidate from: (A) all hospitals where the candidate has practiced; (B) all osteopathic associations of which the candidate is a member; (C) the Dean of the osteopathic college from which the candidate graduated; (D) the Director of Medical Education from each place where the candidate is or has been an intern or resident. (4) Verification of standing from each state where the candidate has held a license, whether that license is current or inactive and whether or not the candidate has been the subject of any disciplinary action in that state. (5) A curriculum vitae which accounts for all of the candidates time and activity, chronologically, from the time of high school graduation to the present. (6) A report from the National Practitioner Data Bank, which the candidate must request and which must be received by the Board directly. (e) Interview. The Board may require a personal interview. (f) Beginning of practice. Applicants for licensure, either by examination, reciprocity or endorsement, must not begin practice until they are in possession of their license. [Source: Amended at 11 Ok Reg 3419, eff 6-27-94; Amended at 13 Ok Reg 2229, eff 6-27-96]