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Pennsylvania license

The programs listed below are not required to obtain a PA Training License or an unrestricted license:

  • Clinical psychology
  • Pediatric dentistry
  • Medical physics
  • Pharmacy

The programs listed below are only required to obtain an unrestricted license:

  • Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS)
  • Podiatry

All other programs are required to obtain a PA Training License (this includes fellowship programs that require you to obtain an unrestricted license).

Residents and fellows required to obtain a PA Training License should not register for a Pennsylvania Application Licensing System (PALS) account. The State Board will not allow us to initiate a training license application using an email address already associated with a Pennsylvania Application Licensing System (PALS) account. If your fellowship requires an unrestricted license, do not use the email address we have on file to create a PALS account. If you've already done so, log in to PALS and update your email address.

Graduate Medical Education (GME) must initiate your application at the institutional level and we cannot do so if you create a PALS account.

All training license applications will be initiated by April 11. You will receive an email from PALS when this process has been initiated. From there you can follow the instructions in your onboarding package to submit your license application.

Process for obtaining a PA Training License:

  1. Once all Dynamic forms have been submitted, the GME office will initiate your license application no later than April 11.
  2. Once the GME office has initiated the application and made the payment, an email will be sent to you from the PA State Board.
  3. Follow the instructions listed in your MedHub onboarding package to submit your training license application.

Checklists

Below are the checklists for each application type. These checklists will give you an idea of what you may need to submit for your training license application:  
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