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[Telehealth](/telehealth-primer/)
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A plain-language guide / Licence

# Check a licence

A name you can look up, not just a reassuring badge.

A licence is permission from a state board to practise. Ask for the clinician’s full name and the board that records that permission.

## Look up the doctor

Doctors’ licence status and public discipline records are published by state medical boards.

Discipline means action the board has taken against a doctor. The detail available varies by state.

The Federation of State Medical Boards offers a directory with links to its member boards’ websites.

Some states keep separate doctor licence boards, so ask which board holds the record.

[Find the relevant state medical board](https://www.fsmb.org/contact-a-state-medical-board/) ↗

## Find out who would make the medicine

An online service may not make the medicine itself; find out which pharmacy would prepare and send it.

FDA’s page points readers to state searches for pharmacy licences.

[Open FDA’s pharmacy lookup guide](https://www.fda.gov/drugs/besaferx-your-source-online-pharmacy-information/locate-state-licensed-online-pharmacy) ↗

## Keep the limits in view

A clean public board record does not grade how good a clinician is.

A pharmacy licence shows permission to run the pharmacy. It does not prove that a medicine was made or supplied correctly.

A care service’s licence does not give Selank FDA approval.

[Prepare the questions you want answered](/primer-questions/) ↗

## Notes for this chapter

[Medical boards: public records](https://www.fsmb.org/u.s.-medical-regulatory-trends-and-actions/guide-to-medical-regulation-in-the-united-states/information-for-consumers/)

What board records show and how they vary.

[State board directory](https://www.fsmb.org/contact-a-state-medical-board/)

The route to the board’s own records.

[FDA: state pharmacy searches](https://www.fda.gov/drugs/besaferx-your-source-online-pharmacy-information/locate-state-licensed-online-pharmacy)

The pharmacy needs its own check.

[FDA: Selank approval search](https://api.fda.gov/drug/drugsfda.json?search=products.active_ingredients.name:%22SELANK%22)

The approval information was checked on September 30, 2026.

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