Housestaff: Licensure and Registration

Medical Licensure

• USMLE Step 3 Instructions
• Application for Medical Licensure Instructions
• Medical Board of California Online Licensing (Official Registration Website)

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Registration

UCSD offers a fee exemption for your DEA registration. However, please note that a DEA registered with the UCSD fee exemption is only valid within the scope of your training. This applies to rotations at affiliate hospitals, but will not be valid while moonlighting.

Initial Registration

You may register with the DEA on-line at http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/ . As a housestaff member of the UCSD Medical Center, you qualify for fee exemption. To receive this exemption, you must enter the following information:

Business Address

Choose Department Anesthesiology Emergency Medicine Family Medicine Family Medicine/Psychiatry General Preventive Internal Medicine Med-Allergy/Immunology Med-Cardiology Med-Card-Electrophysiology Med-Dermatology Med-Endocrinology Med-Gastroenterology Med-Geriatrics Med-Hematology/Oncology Med-Infectious Diseases Med-Nephrology Med-Pulmonary Med-Rheumatology Medicine/Pediatrics Neurology Ophthalmology Orthopaedics Pathology Pediatrics Psychiatry Radiology Reproductive Medicine Surgery Cardiothoracic Surgery Head & Neck Surgery Neurosurgery Plastic Surgery Surgery Critical Care Urology
 
 
 
 
 
 

Note: You MUST check "CERTIFICATION FOR FEE EXEMPTION" in order to receive the fee exemption.

Certifying Official
UCSD Medical Center
Cindy Slaughter
Director, Grad Med Ed
619.543.7768

If you have any questions about filling out the application, please see our detailed instructions.

When you receive your DEA number, please provide a copy to the Office of Graduate Medical Education, Mail Code 8829 and to your training program coordinator.

Renewal

To renew your DEA Registration online, please visit the DEA Website .

Controlled Substance Prescription Pads

After receiving your California medical license and DEA number, you will need to order Controlled Substance Prescription Pads at the UCSD Medical Center. Please send the Controlled Substance Security Prescription Pad Order Form along with a copy of your DEA registration certificate to:

Syndee Holt
UCSDMC Forms Control Management
Mail Code 8491

Controlled Substance Security Prescription pads will be mailed back to the address on your DEA certificate.

To re-order Security Prescriptions, please use the on-line ordering system . You will be prompted for your Username - Your prescription Lot No. located in the lower left of your prescriptions, and your Password - Your California Medical License number.