Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners: Translation Requirements for Documents in Another Language

Worth knowing about Nevada BME

Nevada BME requirements in detail

The transcript rule, and who sends what

Nevada's translation rule sits inside its medical school item: Form 1, Verification of Medical Education, completed by the school, and official transcripts from every school where you received medical instruction, with a certified original and an official English translation if they are not in English (Physician application checklist).

The checklist groups these under verifications the applicant requests and the verifying institution returns directly to the Board.

The checklist does not say whether the school or the applicant arranges the translation.

If your school will not translate, ask your License Specialist whether you may send our certified translation yourself or whether the school should enclose it with the transcript, and order once you know which pages the school will send.

FCVS and ECFMG

Items marked on the checklist, the medical school records among them, may be verified by an FCVS packet instead (Physician application checklist); FCVS and ECFMG then handle the foreign documents under their own rules.

ECFMG wants a word-for-word translation by a professional translation service, on letterhead, signed, with a certification statement, and never the applicant's own (ECFMG: English translations).

For physicians trained outside the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the UK, Nevada also issues a Transitional Limited Physician license for supervised practice in internal medicine, family medicine or pediatrics, which can lead to an unrestricted license after 3,840 hours (Apply for licensure).

Documents applicants usually translate

• Medical school transcripts (all schools of medical instruction)
• Medical school diploma
• Postgraduate training certificates issued abroad
• Foreign medical license and verification letters
• Marriage certificate or court order for a name change

What an eVerbary translation includes

• A complete English translation of every page, stamps, seals and handwritten notes included, laid out like the original so each line can be matched.
• Grades, hours and credits exactly as recorded, with the grading scale the document prints. We never convert marks to a US GPA or equivalency.
• A signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead, with our contact details, delivered as a PDF you can upload or print.
• $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, certification included; 24 hours for one to three pages as standard. Regular clients who need it can get delivery in as little as 30 minutes, on request.
• Notarization added at checkout ($34.90 per order) when the office asks for a notarized translation.

Submitting the translation to Nevada BME

• Apply online through the Board's applicant portal, linked from the physician licensure forms; once the application arrives, your License Specialist sends the background-check authorization, fingerprint cards and instructions (Physician licensure forms).

• Transcripts and their translation follow the checklist's direct-source route from the verifying institution, or FCVS (Physician application checklist); confirm with your License Specialist how they want an outside translation delivered.

How to order

1. Scan or photograph every page of the document, front and back, including any stamps on the reverse.
2. Upload it, choose the language and "certified", and see the price before paying.
3. Receive the PDF, usually within 24 hours for one to three pages, and submit it with the copy of the original wherever the office asks for it.

Frequently asked questions