The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-05-08
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.

cant may elect, accompanied by salts
factory proof that the applicant is
more than twenty-one years of age,
is of good moral character, and has
either received diploma comforting
the degree of doctor of medicine from
some legally incorporated medical col
lege in the United States or diploma
or license comforting the full rights
to practice all the branches of medi-
cine and surgery in some foreign coun-
try; said diploma, if from college
in the United States, must have heen
conferred by legally incorporated
college having entrance requirements
and a standard of education as defined
by the Association of American Med1-
cal Colleges or the intercollegiate
Committee of the American Institute
of Homeopathy, respectively; proVld-
ed, that this requirement shall not ap-
ply to any physician who shall prior
to the eleventh day of April, 1902,
have practiced outside of this State
for at least three years, and who
shall have been duly registered or IL
censed in the place where he has so
practiced; provided further, that two
courses of medical lectures, both OF
which shall be either begun or COM
pleted within the same calendar year,
shall not satisfy the above require
ments; provided also, that in the case
OF students who, on April II, 1907,
shall be in their second year in medl-
cal college, three years course OF
study, or attendance on three courses
Of lectures delivered in different years,
shall satisfy said requirements. Proof
of the qualification of applicants as
above shall, if required, be made by
affidavits at the time of the making OF
said application and payment of fee as
provided. The president of the board
to whom such application shall have
been made,)if satisfied with the same,
shall direct the secretary-treasurer
thereof to issue to said applicant an Or
der for examination, and when said ap-
plicant shall have passed an eXam1na-
ton as to proficiency satisfactory to
said board the president thereof shall
grant to such applicant license to
practice medicine and surgery in the
State of Maryland. If the president OF
either board of medical examiners shall
have refused any application, either for
want of the qualifications necessary to
entitle such applicant to an examina-
ton, as hereinbefore provided, or for
want of proficiency of such applicant
upon being subjected to an examina-
ton, then the president of neither OF
said boards shall entertain or pass upon
a subsequent application from said ap-
plicant until after the expiration of six
months from the rejection of said pre-
vious application. The respective
boards are authorized to license with
out examination applicants who pre-
sent proper certificates Of proficiency
and professional standing at the time
of application issued by boards OF
medical examiners Of the District of
Columbia and of other States, the re-
quirements of which are of as high a
standard as those governing the boards
of medical examiners of this State;
provided such boards of such States or
District grant the same privileges to
licentiates of the examining boards OF
Maryland; such applicants, however,
being still required to furnish the same
proof of qualifications required of other
applicants by this Section, Medical
students, at the end of their second
year of study, who have, as verified by
the certificate of the dean of the col
lege which they have attended,
completed the studies of anatomy,
physiology, medical chemistry and
materia medica in said college shall
on application be examined in such
studies by the State licensing board,
the result of said examination to be
considered as part of the final ex-
animation, the full regular fee to be
paid at this time, no part thereof to be
returned, but placed to their credit for
the remainder of the examination yet
to be taken. Medical students who
have, as verified by the certificate of
the dean of the college which they have
attended, completed a full four years
course of studies and lectures, but who
have not yet received their diplomas,
shall upon application be examined In
all the branches enumerated in Sec
ton Ill of this Article by the State IL
censing board, the final certificate and
license of the said board being with
held until the diploma of the proper
medical college, with the candidates
name inscribed, be produced to the sec
rotary of the board. Diplomas pre-.
scented by graduates Of foreign colleges
may be accepted If the standards of
such foreign colleges were, when such
diploma was issued, equivalent to the
standard defined by the Association of
American Medical Colleges or the In.
tercollegiate Committee of the Ameri-
can Institute of Homeopathy, re-
spectively.
Section 2. And 1t is further enacted,
That all criminal proceedings pending
or which may be hereafter instituted
for offenses already committed shall be
instituted, proceeded with the prose.
cuted to final determination and judg-
ment as if this Act had not been
passed.
Section 8. And be it enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date
Of its passage.
Approved April 10, 1914.