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Virginia MD license renewal deadline: depends on your license

Your license expiration in your birth month (check the date shown in License Lookup). Licenses renew every 2 years.

Find your deadline

In Virginia, the date depends on your license: your birth month, every two years (the year depends on when your license was issued).

As printed on your license or shown in the Board's license lookup.

Reminders 90, 30 and 7 days before. No account needed.

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What you need to renew

30 hours every 2 years

18VAC85-20-230: an active license is renewed biennially during the licensee's birth month. 18VAC85-20-235(A), as amended effective February 27, 2025: attest to at least 30 hours of continuing learning in the two years immediately before renewal, all in Type 1 activities (offered by an accredited sponsor or an organization sanctioned by the profession). Before 2025 the rule required 60 hours (30 Type 1 plus 30 Type 2); self-claimed Type 2 hours no longer count. The Board may extend the deadline up to one year for good cause if you ask before your renewal date.

What to do next

Email me my plan

One email with this plan and a link back to it. No account needed.

Sources

Last verified against these sources on October 7, 2026.

  1. Virginia Board of Medicine — Continuing Education: Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine
  2. Virginia Board of Medicine — Practitioner FAQ (continuing competency, Type 1 hours, audits)
  3. 18VAC85-20-235 — Continued competency requirements for renewal of an active license (amended effective February 27, 2025)
  4. 18VAC85-20-230 — Renewal of an active license (biennially in the birth month)
  5. Code of Virginia § 54.1-2912.1 — Continued competency requirements
  6. Code of Virginia § 54.1-2904 — Biennial renewal of licenses
  7. 2026 Acts of Assembly, Chapter 450 (HB 1147) — bias reduction training to be required by Board regulation

A planning aid from the Virginia Board of Medicine's published rules, not legal advice. Confirm your date and requirements with your Board.