title: Testing the limits.
abstract: Three tests, three chances per test, and a total of seven years. Those are the general rules and timeframes physicians must follow in passing the necessary exams to get licensed to practice medicine in Texas. Almost every legislative session, state lawmakers introduce a handful of bills to expand those limits, most of which fail. And almost every legislative session, lawmakers call upon TMA for advice on how they should weigh in on the legislation. The TMA Council on Medical Education is evaluating whether to recommend new policy for the TMA House of Delegates to consider in May.
authors: Amy Lynn
authors: AL
authors: Sorrel
mesh_terms: D008007:Licensure, Medical / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013781:Texas