The Medical Practice Act and The Board Rules & Regulations are the guiding statutory authority which governs the TSBME’s actions, investigations and determinations regarding medical license applicants and licensees with criminal convictions. These matters are often loaded with highly complicated legal issues that may not be fact specific. Therefore, because the consequences are high it is best for a medical license applicant or physician licensee to obtain legal representation to help guide and represent them through the process of explaining a criminal conviction. Often times a simple legal showing of rehabilitation can bypass what would otherwise be a long and drawn out legal battle. Furthermore, rehabilitation is best shown by an advocate and not by the applicant or licensee since it is their character that is the issue in question. For a more specific guideline between the relationship between criminal convictions and the practice of medicine click here