Physician Profiles - Board of Medical Practice
The Vermont law, 26 V.SA. §1368, requires the Department of Health to create a data repository and to publish profiles of all health care professionals licensed, certified, or registered by the department. With information gathered through the 2002 physicians’ license renewal cycle, profiles are prepared and posted of all medical doctors (MDs) licensed to practice in Vermont.
In these profiles, the first three numbers or letters of the professional’s license or certificate indicate the profession:
- 042: physician (MD)
- 055: physician assistant
- 056: podiatrist
- AAA: anesthesiologist assistant
Information about actions taken by the Vermont Board of Medical Practice on a professional’s license or certificate can be found in two places in the profile.
- “License status” indicates the status of the professional’s Vermont license or certificate as of the last profile update.
- “License Restrictions” section shows licensing actions taken in Vermont and elsewhere within the most recent ten years.
By law, several other sections of the profile are also limited to events within the most recent ten years. Most of this information is self-reported by the professional. While we have no reason to doubt any of the information reported, it is information based on our collection efforts, not our primary research efforts.
In some cases, the language regarding malpractice judgments and settlements and licensing authority disciplinary actions has been taken directly from previously existing official documents. Since the reporting conventions for the source documents differ, the form of the descriptions on this site may vary.
Profiles have not been created for professionals who did not renew their license or certification with the Board of Medical Practice in 2002. Listings for these professionals as well as for professionals licensed by Boards in the Office of Professional Regulation at the Vermont Secretary of State’s office may be found at DocFinder. Information other than “License status” for professionals who have a profile but who no longer maintain an active license in Vermont may not be up to date.
Please consider this website to be a starting point in evaluating a professional, not the sole basis for selecting one. It can be a valuable source of questions, but should not be considered a source of final answers.
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The Vermont Practitioner Health Program (VPHP)
VPHP is a service of the Vermont Medical Society, financed in part by Medical Practice Board license fees. Its primary purpose is to protect the public by the early identification, treatment and rehabilitation of individual providers of health services who are impaired or at risk for impairment by the excessive use of drugs, including alcohol.
Under the Protocol adopted by both the Board and the Society, VPHP is not required to disclose to the Board the identity of the participants except where there is injury, or the risk of injury, to a patient, a criminal act, relapse to the use of alcohol or drugs; or other failures by the participant to abide by the Monitoring contract with VPHP.
The confidential VPHP telephone number is 802-223-0400.