Utah physician licensing.

DOPL publishes no processing time for a physician license, and no average or current processing date. It does publish the fingerprint timing: an authorization email about 2 to 3 business days after you apply, and up to three months more if you mail ink cards. DOPL wants your FCVS profile released to Utah before you apply, and FSMB says a first profile typically takes roughly 35 days. On the compact route, IMLCC’s Year 9 averages were 38 days from application to a Letter of Qualification, then 22 days from qualification to issued licenses.

$633 in published fees with a first FCVS profile: DOPL’s $235 application fee, FCVS at $395 with your USMLE transcripts included, and the $3 NPDB self-query, plus the fingerprint vendor’s charge. With an FCVS profile already on file, the total is $337. Through the IMLC, fees total $900, $700 to the IMLCC plus $200 for Utah. Prescribers add the $100 Utah controlled substance license and the DEA’s $888, and on the 6,000-hour endorsement test, verifications from your other boards come on top.

Yes. Utah enacted the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact in 2015, issues licenses through it, and can be your state of principal license once you hold a Utah license in good standing. As of January 2026, Utah’s Office of Professional Licensure Review counted 2,747 MDs and 558 DOs, 17% and 22% of active licensees, who obtained their Utah licenses through the compact. Compact fees come to $900: $700 to the IMLCC plus $200 for Utah.

In published fees, direct application: $633 with a first FCVS profile, or $337 with one already on file, against $900 through the compact. The compact can still make sense when you meet its terms and are adding other member states, since the IMLCC’s $700 covers the initial application and each member state adds its own license fee, and your state of principal license runs the background check. Adding Utah to a Letter of Qualification still within its 365 days costs $300, a $100 handling fee plus the $200.

Yes, under either of two tests in Utah law, on the same $235 application. DOPL’s application prints the physician law’s test: a current, full, unrestricted license in good standing in another US jurisdiction or in Canada, and at least 6,000 hours of practice in the five years before you apply, shown on a CV and in official license verifications. Utah’s general endorsement law asks for at least one year of practice under a license in good standing in another US jurisdiction with a similar scope of practice, and Utah’s Office of Professional Licensure Review reported in 2026 that DOPL issues most physician endorsement licenses under it and recommended aligning the two. DOPL’s pages and forms describe only the 6,000-hour test.

Yes, with a temporary license, if a licensed Utah health care facility, or two Utah physicians at one clinical location, invite you to practice under a physician’s general supervision while your endorsement application is processed, and you certify that you meet the physician law’s endorsement test. It costs $50 on top of the $235, plus $50 for a temporary controlled substance license if you need one, lasts one year, and cannot be renewed. Utah law has DOPL issue it within 15 business days after you meet its requirements, though DOPL’s pages do not state that deadline.

Yes, for every MD and DO applicant: DOPL’s rules and pages require an FCVS profile, and you cannot file until FSMB has released it to Utah, unless you are also requesting a temporary license. A first profile costs $395 and a later one $99, USMLE transcripts included, and FSMB says it typically processes a first profile in roughly 35 days and later ones in roughly 20 days or less. The profile also carries FSMB’s record of your licensure history and any sanctions, the FSMB disciplinary report DOPL’s rules require.

Fingerprints yes, jurisprudence exam no. Utah law has required a state and FBI fingerprint check of every MD and DO applicant since 2025, and DOPL’s pages apply it to applications from April 1, 2026. The check starts after you apply, when DOPL emails an authorization form and a list of approved vendors about 2 to 3 business days later; within 50 miles of a vendor you must use one, at the vendor’s own fee, and farther away you can mail two ink cards, which DOPL says can add up to three months. Utah has no jurisprudence exam for physicians.

Barely. Since October 1, 2024, one board has overseen both, and DOPL runs one process on near-identical applications for the same $235 fee, though MD and DO licenses stay separate. For DOs, COMLEX-USA counts, AOA training programs qualify alongside ACGME ones, an AOA Profile can replace the AMA’s, and DOPL asks for an NPDB self-query dated no more than 30 days before applying; DO licenses renew May 31 instead of January 31. The IMLCC still lists separate Utah MD and DO rows under the boards’ former names, each at $200.

Yes. A Utah license is required to practice medicine on or for any person in Utah, and Utah has no telehealth registration; the exemptions are narrow, such as a consultation requested by a Utah licensee. Utah law does have DOPL issue a temporary telemedicine license, at no added fee, to a physician licensed in good standing in another state who has applied under the general endorsement law, when DOPL determines it cannot process that application within 15 days; DOPL’s physician pages do not mention it.