Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2092 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify physician licensing requirements for foreign medical school graduates by including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Royal College) as a qualified medical accreditation body.

The Hawaii Medical Service Association testified in support of this measure. The Board of Medical Examiners (Board) provided comments.

Your Committee finds that Canadian residency training is accepted by most other states as being comparable to training in the United States for medical licensure. Accepting Canadian training for medical licensing purposes would increase the pool of physicians qualified to practice medicine.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2092, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.