Professional Licensure Information

Arizona Licensure Resources

  • If you have been previously licensed in Arizona, please go directly to your Boards website to see if there are stipulations regarding your licensure.
  • Please apply early for Arizona State licensure if required for your field of expertise. This allows your license application time to be returned to you and verified by the Pathway to Health team prior to the date of the event.
  • Different Boards have different application deadlines. Please complete your application and mail it in immediately.  
  • If you have difficulty with a link or have licensure requirement questions, Please email: info.ybpth@gmail.com

Audiology:

Barber:

Cosmetology:

Counselor:

  • When volunteering for less than 90 days. No Arizona licensure is required.

Dental Assistants:

Dental Hygienist:

Dentist:

Doctors:

  • If you have previously held any type of MD License or Permit in Arizona (including, but not limited to a full MD License, Locum Tenens Registration, Teaching License, Post Graduate Training Permit or Pro Bono Registration) you will be unable to utilize the online application at this time. Please use the Printable Application.
  • Tips from Arizona Board of Medicine on completing application:  If anything is not filled out on the form, it has to be sent back and filled out again.  She says that the section most often missed is “Name of Document” ( for passport or birth certificate) and “Signature”.

EKG Tech:

  • No certification required in Arizona

EMT:

Laboratory:

  • While documented experience is required, there are no licensure requirements in Arizona.

Medical Assistants:

  • CMA – No Arizona certification requested.

Nurse Practitioners:

  • If you hold a Compact State Nursing License – you may volunteer as an RN.
  • Arizona Nursing Board will not accept more applications between now and the event.

Nursing:

  • If NOT currently residing and licensed in a Compact State – Please select another area to volunteer. Arizona Nursing Board will not accept more applications between now and the event.

Optometry / Vision Services:

Paramedic:

Pharmacy:

  • Please apply to volunteer and you will be emailed the volunteer license application and be given instructions by your department head.

Physical Therapy:

  • Volunteer licensure application has been approved.  Please apply as a PT and the instructions and applications will be emailed to you.

Physician’s Assistants:

  • Volunteer licensure application has been approved.  Please email info.ybpth@ybpth.org to receive the link to apply according to the instructions listed on the application. Please mail directly to the Board in Arizona.

Podiatry:

  •  Download Form (244.38 KB)Pursuant to A.R.S. § 32-3217, a podiatrist, who is not licensed to practice in the state of Arizona, may apply for a volunteer health services registration for up to 14 days, each calendar year if he/she meets certain criteria.

Radiology:

Ultrasound – Arizona does not require Licensure/National certification is required

Echo – Arizona does not require Licensure/National certification is required

Rad Techs – No Arizona State Licensure is required.  You must be licensed/certified in the US.

Respiratory Therapy:

Social Work:

Speech Pathology:

Sterile Processing: 

  • SPD – National Certification
  • CRCST – National Certification

Surgical Assistants:

  • CST – National Certification

Therapist:

  • When volunteering for less than 90 days. No Arizona licensure is required.