GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1149

Short Title:  Med. Prac. Act Change.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Alexander; Balmer, D. Brown, Church, Colton, Gottovi, Hill, Kuczmarski, Mercer, and Russell.
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Referred to:  State Government.
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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 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: the applicant shall, before admittance to examination, satisfy the Board 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 the applicant has passed an examination upon literary attainments to meet the requirements of entrance in the regular course of the State University.  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 graduation, dated from January 1, 1960, to the present and 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 these facilities for clinical and scientific instruction as 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 graduated from any other medical or osteopathic college, the applicant shall be enrolled in a graduate medical education and training program in North Carolina 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 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 that has been disapproved by the Board is eligible to take the examination.
The examination shall cover the branches of medical science and subjects which the Board 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 satisfies the Board that the applicant is of good moral character and that either, 	(i) if the applicant is a graduate of a medical college approved by the Liaison Commission on Medical Education or osteopathic college approved by the American Osteopathic Association, the applicant has successfully completed one year of training in a medical education program approved by the Board after graduation from medical school, except in the case that an applicant is a dentist licensed to practice dentistry pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes who has been certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery after having completed a residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency approved by the Board prior to completion of medical school.  In this case, the applicant shall not be required to complete one year of training after graduation from medical school; or (ii) if the applicant is a graduate of a medical college that has not been approved by the Liaison Commission on Medical Education or osteopathic college that has not been approved by the American Osteopathic Association, the applicant 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 applicant to practice medicine in any of its branches.
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.