GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 190
AN ACT TO AMEND THE MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT AS IT RELATES TO ORAL SURGERY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 90-9 reads as rewritten:
"§ 90-9. Examination for license; scope; conditions and prerequisites.
It shall be is the duty of the Board of Medical
Examiners to examine for license to practice medicine or surgery, or any of the
branches thereof, every applicant who complies with the following provisions: He
the applicant shall, before he is admitted admittance to
examination, satisfy the Board that he has an of possession of academic
education equal to the entrance requirements of the University of North
Carolina, or furnish a certificate from the superintendent of public
instruction of the county that he the applicant has passed an
examination upon his literary attainments to meet the requirements of
entrance in the regular course of the State University. He The
applicant shall exhibit a diploma or furnish satisfactory proof of
graduation from a medical college or an osteopathic college approved by the
American Osteopathic Association at the time of his graduation, which time
of graduation shall have been on January 1, 1960, or subsequent thereto graduation,
dated from January 1, 1960, to the present, and which whose medical
and osteopathic schools shall require an attendance of not less than four years
or for a lesser period of time approved by the Board, and supply such these
facilities for clinical and scientific instruction as shall meet the
approval of the Board. An applicant shall have graduated from a medical
college approved by the Liaison Commission on Medical Education or osteopathic
college that has been approved by the American Osteopathic Association; or, if he
was graduated from any other medical or osteopathic college, the applicant
shall be enrolled in a graduate medical education and training program in North
Carolina which that has been approved by the Board. An
applicant who has graduated from a medical college not approved by the Liaison
Commission on Medical Education or osteopathic college that has not been
approved by the American Osteopathic Association and who has not enrolled in a
graduate medical education and training program in North Carolina which has
been approved by the Board shall satisfy the Board that he the
applicant has successfully completed three years of graduate medical
education in a training program approved by the Board. No applicant from a medical
or osteopathic college which that has been disapproved by the
Board shall be is eligible to take the examination.
The examination shall cover the branches of medical science
and subjects which the Board deems considers necessary to
determine competence to practice medicine. The Board may divide the
examination into parts or components.
If the applicant successfully passes the examination, as
determined by the Board, and if the applicant satisfies the Board that he is of
good moral character and that either, (1) if the applicant is The Board
shall grant the applicant a license authorizing the applicant to practice
medicine in any of its branches if the Board determines that the applicant has
successfully passed the examination, is of good moral character, and is:
(1) a graduate of a
medical college approved by the Liaison Commission on Medical Education or an
osteopathic college approved by the American Osteopathic Association,
he Association and has successfully completed one year of training
in a medical education program approved by the Board after graduation from
medical school; or (2) if
(2) a graduate of a medical college approved by the Liaison Commission on Medical Education or an osteopathic college approved by the American Osteopathic Association, is a dentist licensed to practice dentistry under Article 2 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes, and has been certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery after having completed a residency in an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program approved by the Board before completion of medical school; or
(3) the
applicant is a graduate of a medical college that has not been approved by
the Liaison Commission on Medical Education or an osteopathic college
that has not been approved by the American Osteopathic Association, he Association
and has successfully completed three years of training in a medical
education program approved by the Board after graduation from medical school,
then the Board shall grant the applicant a license authorizing him to practice
medicine in any of its branches. school.
Applicants shall be examined by number only; names and other identifying information shall not appear on examination papers."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification and applies to applications made on or after this date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 1993.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives