GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION
CHAPTER 739
AN ACT TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR RECEIVING A LICENSE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The first paragraph of G.S. 90-9 is amended by adding new sentences, at the end, to read:
"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 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 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 has been disapproved by the Board shall be eligible to take the examination."
Sec. 2. The second paragraph of G.S. 90-9 is amended by adding a new sentence, at the end, to read: "The Board may divide the examination into parts or components."
Sec. 3. The third paragraph of G.S. 90-9 is rewritten to read:
"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 a graduate of a medical college approved by the Liaison Commission on Medical Education or osteopathic college approved by the American Osteopathic Association, he has successfully completed one year of training in a medical education program approved by the Board after graduation from medical school; or (2) 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, he 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."
Sec. 4. G.S. 90-13 is amended by deleting the last sentence of the section and by substituting the following three sentences:
"An applicant for licensing under this section who was 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 shall have successfully completed three years of training in a medical education and training program approved by the Board after graduation. The Board may grant a license under this section for any period of time and with any conditions it deems appropriate. No license may be granted to any applicant who was graduated from a medical or osteopathic college which has been disapproved by the Board."
Sec. 5. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of July, 1985.