North Carolina Medical Board: Translation Requirements for Documents in Another Language

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North Carolina Medical Board requirements in detail

The ITPE license: where translations matter most

The ITPE license, created by state law in 2025, lets a physician licensed abroad work for a North Carolina hospital or rural practice that has offered full-time employment, and can lead to a full license after four years (Internationally-Trained Physician Employee (ITPE) license).

Its eligibility list includes 130 weeks of medical education at a school in the World Directory of Medical Schools, ECFMG eligibility, and two years of graduate training approved in the country of licensure or ten years of practice there (Professional FAQs: licensing).

Because ITPE applicants come straight from practice abroad, much of their file is in another language, and the checklist's rule covers all of it (ITPE license checklist).

Training verifications and license verifications are still sent by the program or authority; the documents you upload yourself are the ones you have translated.

Where NCMB's pages differ

The ITPE checklist states the translation rule; the full-license checklists for FCVS applicants do not mention translations, because FCVS collects the education documents (Full license using FCVS: checklist).

For any document you upload on either path, a certified translation satisfies the ITPE wording.

The criminal background check is different on every path: NCMB wants it issued in English by the foreign agency (ITPE license checklist), so a translation you order does not replace it.

Documents applicants usually translate

• Marriage certificate, divorce decree or court order for a name change
• Foreign medical license or registration certificate
• Medical diploma
• Employment and practice records from abroad, when you upload them yourself
• Birth certificate, if you use it for proof of status

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 North Carolina Medical Board

• Upload the certified translation with a copy of the original through the NCMB Licensure Gateway, in the item where the checklist asks for that document (ITPE license checklist).

• Verifications that must come from a licensing authority, training program or police agency go from that source to license@ncmedboard.org, not from you (ITPE license checklist).

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