Medicine: trainees: international medical graduates.

The Medical Practice Act provides for licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California and imposes various requirements in that regard. Existing law requires an applicant for a license as a physician and surgeon to successfully complete a specified medical curriculum, a clinical instruction program, and a training program. Existing law provides that nothing in the Medical Practice Act shall be construed to prohibit a foreign medical graduate from engaging in the practice of medicine whenever and wherever required as part of a clinical service program, subject to certain conditions. This bill, until January 1, 2019, would authorize a clinical instruction pilot program for certain bilingual international medical graduates at the David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as part of an existing preresidency training program, at the option of UCLA. The bill would provide that nothing in the Medical Practice Act shall be construed to prohibit a foreign medical graduate participating in the pilot program from engaging in the practice of medicine when required as part of the pilot program. The bill would set forth the requirements for international medical graduates to participate in the pilot program. The bill would require UCLA to provide the board with the names of the participants and other information. The bill would authorize the board to consider participation in the clinical instruction pilot program as remediation for medical education deficiencies in a participant's subsequent application for licensure as a physician and surgeon. The bill would request UCLA to report to the board and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2018. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations.