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Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
To qualify for a license as a professional medical physicist, an applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:
1. Application: file an application with the department;
2. Education: have received an education including a master's or doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in accordance with the commissioner's regulations. Such person shall have completed such courses of instruction as are deemed necessary by the commissioner to practice in the medical physics specialty in which the applicant has applied for a license;
3. Experience: have experience in his or her medical physics specialty satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
4. Examination: pass an examination in his or her medical specialty satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations. The examination requirement may be waived by the board on recommendation of the commissioner for certain applicants with extensive experience as a medical physicist;
5. Age: be at least twenty-one years of age;
6. Fee: pay a fee of three hundred dollars to the department for admission to a department conducted examination for licensure, a fee of one hundred fifty dollars for licensure with special competency in the first specialty and twenty-five dollars for each additional specialty, and a fee of three hundred dollars for each biennial registration period.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 8705. Requirements and procedures for professional licensure - last updated January 01, 2026 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/education-law/edn-sect-8705/
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