Liposuction Board Certified Credential Requirements.

- Professional Education
- Medical Licensure
- Continuing Medical Education

To begin the Liposuction Board Certified (LBC) certification process, physicians must fulfill specific credential requirements.

Professional Education
Physicians must have graduated from a medical school approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) or the Bureau of Professional Education of the American Osteopathic Association (BPEAOA). Physicians graduating from an international medical school, must submit a copy of their original diploma and, if the diploma is not in English, a copy that is translated with the translation verified.

Surgery Residency
The physician must successfully complete a minimum of thirty-six (36) months of post-medical school training under the control of residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC).

In cases where a residency program is longer than thirty-six (36) months, the physician must successfully complete all years of training for which the residency program is accredited in order to meet the Board's credential requirements for certification.

Medical Licensure
Each physician applying for certification more than one year after graduating from a residency program must continuously hold a current, active, valid, unrestricted, and unqualified license to practice medicine in at least one jurisdiction in the United States, its territories, or Canada, and in each jurisdiction in which he or she practices. A physician may hold one or more additional licenses, each of which must be valid, unrestricted, and unqualified.

Physicians who submit an application and take the qualifying examination the same year they graduate from the residency program are not required to hold a medical license. However, if a physician holds any licenses, they must be reported to the Board and must be valid, unrestricted, and unqualified, except that they may be educational or temporary licenses.

The Policy on Medical Licensure describes these requirements in more detail.

Continuing Medical Education
Documentation of continuing medical education (CME) is not required if a physician applies to LBC within one year after graduating from residency program.

Documentation of CME is required if a physician applies to LBC more than one year following graduation from a residency. Starting one year after the physician's date of graduation and continuing until the year the physician submits a certification application, the Board requires that the physician complete and report for review an average of 50 hours of CME per year

Beginning with physicians who graduate from their residency programs after June 30, 2006, and who apply for certification in or after 2008, if physicians submit an certification application more than three years after the graduation date, of the required CME, at least 50 hours per year must be completed in each of the three years immediately preceding the year in which the application is submitted.