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pertaining to the facilitation of cooperation on MRA on Medical

Practitioners. According to the MRA, any Medical Practitioners
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(MP) holding a valid medical license of his/her country of
origin, can apply for registration to practice medicine in other

countries within the community and will be known as a foreign
MP. However, such a foreign MP will be still subject to all local

domestic regulations set forth by the professional medical
regulatory authority of the host country. 56

In this regard, MP refers to a natural person who has
completed the required professional medical training and
conferred the professional medical qualification; and has

been registered and/or licensed by the Professional Medical
Regulatory Authority in the Country of Origin as being technically,

ethically and legally qualified to undertake professional medical
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practice. Foreign MP registration process involves registering
and/or certifying and/or licensing of the MP within a jurisdiction

55 See ASEAN Secretariat, Medical Practitioners(2017), available at http://asean.
org/asean-economic-community/sectoral-bodies-under-the-purview-of-aem/
services/healthcare-services/medical-practitioners-ajccm/.

56 Kinzang Wangchuka & Natapol Supanatsetakulb, Foreign medical practitioners:
requirements for medical practice and postgraduate training in Thailand under
ASEAN Economic Community liberalization in 2015, 9 ASIAN BIOMEDICINE, 778
(2015).
57 ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Medical Practitioners (2009).

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