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Licensure refers to the granting of a license (in the US and Canada, whilst, elsewhere the term registration is used), usually to work in a particular profession or to obtain a privilege such as to drive a car or truck. Many privileges and professions require a license from the government (generally the state government) in order to ensure that the public will not be harmed by the incompetence of the practitioners. Doctors, nurses, lawyers, psychologists, and public accountants are some examples of professions that require licensure.

People become licensed through training and/or passing an exam. In many cases, an individual must complete certain steps, such as acquiring an educational degree in a particular area of study, before becoming eligible to attempt licensure. Individuals sometimes advertise their licensed status by appending an acronym to their name: Jane Doe, CPA.

Licensure may be perpetual or may need to be renewed periodically. It is very common for renewal to depend in part or whole upon evidence of continual learning--often termed in the US continuing education or earning continuing education units (CEU).

Licenses are generally offered within jurisdictions which are usually states or territories. This creates interesting problems. Jurisdictions may have wildly varying requirements for obtaining a license. For some licensees, it is hard or impossible to move their practice to a new jurisdiction and obtain licensure in the new jurisdiction. And there are questions of legal authority: If a doctor provides medical advice over the Internet to an individual in another jurisdiction, is she practicing licensed medicine in her jurisdiction or unlicensed medicine in the patient's jurisdiction?

Licensure is similar to professional certification, and sometimes synonymous, but generally, certification is not mandatory to be able to legally practice the profession.

Restricting entry

Milton Friedman (1979) notes that licensure is widely used to restrict entry, particularly for occupations like medicine that have many individual practitioners dealing with a large number of individual customers (see for example the American Medical Association). The justification given by advocates for licensure is always to protect the consumer through professional, educational and/or ethical standards of practice; however, Friedman believes that the real motivation behind licensure is to forcibly limit the supply of specific kinds of labor in order to raise their wages at the consumer's cost.

"It is hard to regard altruistic concern for their customers as the primary motive behind their determined efforts to get legal power to decide who may be a plumber" (Friedman 1979).

In Rhode Island, barbers, cosmetologists, arborists, massage therapists, landscape architects, chauffeurs, and even boxers are licensed.

Examples of professions requiring licensure

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Milton Friedman

Born July 31 1912(1912--)
Brooklyn, New York City
Died November 16 2006 (aged 94)
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American Medical Association

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