licensure

1:  the state or condition of having a license granted by official or legal authority to perform medical acts and procedures not permitted by persons without such a license <applicant must have RN licensure>; also :  the granting of such licenses <a state board of medical licensure>

2:  approval of a drug or medical procedure by official or legal authority for use in the practice of medicine <the licensure was based on the results of randomized clinical trials of the vaccine's protective efficacy—E. D. Shapiro et al>

:  the granting of licenses especially to practice a profession; also :  the state of being licensed