Virgin Islands Medical License Service
The Virgin Island Medical Board is a very difficult Medical Board to work with. Mail loss is horrendous and community is sparse with the Physician or Credentialing Agency. Just one example of this was experienced in 2018 by MedLicense.com. The Virgin Island Medical Board denied a fully qualified, Board Certified Physician with no adverse issues. After 6 months of being informed by the Virgin Islands Medical Board that none of his verifications had been received (which prompted the same required verifications to be sent to the VI Medical Board 3-6 times each), the physician suddenly received a letter stating that he was being denied due to the fact that his training was not ACGME approved.
The physician was an Osteopath. He held a D.O. Degree not an M.D. Degree. His training was AOA approved, not AMA approved.
The physician hired an attorney and filed the required appeals. He was assisted in his appeal by a State Senator of the Virgin Islands who worked as his Advocate during the appeals process. We were informed by his Virgin Islands' Attorney, that the Virgin Island Medical Board does not want physicians from the States coming into the Virgin Islands to practice medicine. The goal is to limit competition in the Virgin Islands. The physician, after 18 months, received the license to practice medicine in the Virgin Islands. We stayed with him through the entire process and provided the needed documentation to demonstrate that the Physician had fully completed the application including all verifications as well as all communications with the Board Members. The Board was forced to issue the license given that we demonstrated that they had violated their own policies and rules in their denial of the fully qualified physician.
Physicians applying for a license in the Virgin Islands should be aware that the Virgin Islands Medical Board has not made any changes since 2018. MedLicense.com has found the Board to be very difficult to work with in the past and cautions its' clients to expect extreme delays with this Board.