No. When we request a copy of a document, notarization or certification is not required and an original is not necessary. A document copy may be a piece of paper you mail, or a digital copy from a scanner or cell phone and sent by email or fax. You may send verification forms 1, 2 and 3 to appropriate entities by fax and email. The verifier may return completed verifications to the Board by fax or email as well. However, for faxes, a coversheet bearing the facility’s logo or letterhead is necessary to confirm the sender is the same as the verifier. As long as the sender can be confirmed, the copy is as valid as the original.

However, we cannot accept copies of COMLEX or USMLE transcripts, or copies of documents with a notarial certificate.

If you answer No to question 4 in Section 9, you do not need to submit this form. If you were sued and the case was concluded with no settlement made on your behalf, you do not need to submit this form. If you were sued and the case is still pending, you must answer Yes to question 4 in Section 9.

If you answer Yes to question 4 in Section 9, you need to complete this form. This form should be used as a coversheet for each settlement made on your behalf or for any pending cases. Along with the form, you must submit a narrative in your own words regarding the event and your part in the patient’s care, a copy of the Complaint filed with the court, the settlement document (if applicable), and your licensing Board’s disposition of the complaint if the settlement case was reviewed by a licensing Board. Do not submit the NPDB report in lieu of the above.

The Board considers "re-entering practice" to mean those physicians who held a license and practiced clinical medicine previously but are not licensed and are not practicing medicine at the time of their application to the Arizona Osteopathic Board. It also includes those physicians who are licensed elsewhere but have not practiced clinical medicine for more than two (2) years.

Re-entry procedures have been adopted by the Board. You can read these on our website on this page on the Info Doc(s) tab document titled "Application Procedures for Doctors Re-Entering Practice".

Yes, at the following stages in the application process:

    a. you will be sent an email when the application has been received;
    b. if your application is administratively incomplete, you will be notified in writing by email what documents have not yet been received;
    c. after 30 days of receipt of your application, you may email or call the Board to check on the status of your application;
    d. if there are issues about your qualifications, or if you are required to appear before the Board, you will be notified in writing by mail; or
    e. If your application is approved, the Request for Issuance of License form will be sent with the approval letter to you by email and regular mail.

• The application for licensure is between the applicant and the Board of Osteopathic Examiners, and thus you are the person to whom we address all questions, answers and correspondence.
• Your alternate contact will be copied on all correspondence sent to you (by email, fax or mail).
• We will answer the alternate contact’s questions about the status of your application, whether documents and verifications have been received, and questions regarding defunct facilities.
• If your alternate contact asks a question on your behalf other than the status of your application, the answer will be sent to you, and your alternate contact will be copied.
• If we request additional or corrected documentation, you must sign and date your response. Your alternate contact may forward it to us, but that person cannot act independently on your behalf.
• If your alternate contact receives and forwards verifications to the Board, we cannot accept them. If this occurs, you will be responsible for obtaining new verifications and having it sent directly to the Board, which will delay the processing of your application. In order to maintain verification integrity, Verifications must be sent directly to the Board from the primary source.

1. Follow the instructions carefully when completing the application. Incorrect or incomplete information will cause delays.
2. Submit verifications to the appropriate entities before submitting the license application. Some applicants provide pre-paid delivery service envelopes to verifiers to expedite delivery and for tracking purposes. Other applicants provide the Board’s fax number and email address to verifiers since verifications (other than medical licensure exam transcripts) can be received by fax or email.
   • Make sure the verifier knows to use a coversheet bearing the facility’s logo or letterhead when faxing verification to the Board’s office. If the sender cannot be proven, verification cannot be accepted.
   • Follow up with verifiers to make sure verifications are sent in a timely manner.
3. Request an update on the application no more frequently than once a week, preferably by email.

• Form 1: Professional Education Verification is used to verify that you graduated from your College of Osteopathic Medicine. Submit it to your registrar’s office for completion. The Board does not recognize National Clearinghouse as official verification of graduation. You are not required to submit form 1 if you contact our college of Osteopathic Medicine and have them submit a transcript directly to the Board office. Please note From 1 should be used an alternative in obtaining Professional Education Verification. The Board’s recommended path is to obtain transcripts directly from the college.
• Form 2: Verification of Postgraduate Training is used to verify all of your postgraduate training, regardless of completion. Make as many copies as needed. Sign the top portion and submit it to the program director’s office for completion.
• Form 3: Practice Experience Verification is used to verify your practice history for the last seven (7) years. If you are still in residency this will only apply to you if you have moonlighted – practiced under a full license and outside of your program’s supervision. If you have no practice history to verify, you do not need to send the form with your application packet. We will not expect to receive Form 3 verifications for you if you wrote “n/a” in Section 8 of the application.