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Mission Statement


The mission of the Board of Licensure in Medicine is to safeguard the health, welfare, safety and lives, of the people of Maine by ensuring that the public is served by competent, ethical and honest practitioners. To accomplish this the Board will:
  • license only qualified medical doctors and physician assistants;
  • monitor the practice of medicine to insure the integrity of the profession and to maintain high professional standards and conduct;
  • provide the public a forum to have complaints heard and impartially investigated;
  • discipline and sanction licensees who violate the standards of conduct or whose performance is below minimum acceptable standards of proficiency;
  • undertake special projects, often in collaboration with other interested groups, that both enhance the profession and meet public needs.

Adopted January 9, 1996